From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:12:09 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii In-Reply-To: <20080721152658.GA23270@patter.mine.nu> References: <1216589569-sup-1520@entry> <575d86ad0807210514n573972ecr2feb7aafcb9679e1@mail.gmail.com> <1216653716-sup-7355@entry> <20080721152658.GA23270@patter.mine.nu> Message-ID: <1216692061-sup-3543@entry> Reformatted excerpts from Stephen Patterson's message of 2008-07-21: > So we'd then need a collection of custom client applications to search > and/or browse the index? > > This sounds quite a bit like the beagle project - > http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page Thanks for the pointer. It does sound quite similar. Having played with Beagle a bit, I think they key difference is that I'm envisioning STS as being the primary interface to your precious infos, whereas Beagle seems more of a supplemental index of data that's primarily handled by other apps. This has a couple implications, including who's responsible for storing the files (STS: STS; Beagle: you and your apps), and what the user experience looks like (Beagle: use Thunderbird, then call up Beagle for help; STS: browse everything through your client, starting with a search for label "inbox", and call up other applications for handling foreign mime types). If anything, Beagle is closer to Sup classic, and STS brings us closer to Gmail. -- William