From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:40:35 +0200 Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii In-Reply-To: <1216692061-sup-3543@entry> References: <1216589569-sup-1520@entry> <575d86ad0807210514n573972ecr2feb7aafcb9679e1@mail.gmail.com> <1216653716-sup-7355@entry> <20080721152658.GA23270@patter.mine.nu> <1216692061-sup-3543@entry> Message-ID: <1216834375-sup-1899@ausone.local> Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Tue Jul 22 04:12:09 +0200 2008: > 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. Another design choice, that could (and perhaps *should*) be made; is that stored data don't change in the case of mails, IM..., only their labels and children (threading) do. Then, this makes even more differences, general file system indexers have an harder task since, files change all the time this imply more complex data structures that often provides worse complexity than one could wish. Cheers, -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: