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Beagle Newsletter Issue 3 - 4 November 2004
Welcome to another edition of the Beagle Newsletter. If your new to the project you can read up about it the projects website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle
Hacking
Stability
Joe Shaw and Jon Trowbridge have been working to improve the speed and efficiency of Beagle and its related tools. Specific attention has been paid to initial indexing of files by the daemon and rendering speed for Best.
Notification Area and Best
The tray icon code has been moved into Best.
Gecko-Sharp
Dave Camp has put significant effort into moving Best's rendering system from gtk-html to gecko-sharp. Although this introduces a new dependency for the project, the new interface speaks for itself. This change makes it a much easier step towards the design teams goals. Check it out for yourself: 
Kernel
Robert Love's inotify patch has been packaged for many different distributions. Check the wiki for where to find the latest kernel for your system.
Project
Website
Garrett Lesage and Ben Kahn have created a excellent new website for the Beagle project. You can visit it at http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle
Beagle Hacking Guide Update
The Beagle Hacking Guide has been updated to include more information about each of the different ways to code Beagle. This guide is meant to aid programmers in getting an idea to code without the hassle of reading thousands of lines of code. The guide is located at: http://beaglewiki.org/index.php/BeagleHacking
Re-organized installation guide
Kevin Godby re-organized the Beagle Installation Guide into a much easier to browse document. You can find the installation guide on www.beaglewiki.org
Design Wiki
There is a new wiki that includes many new design ideas for Beagle interfaces. You can read all about the ideas and there use cases at: http://primates.ximian.com/glesage/wiki/doku.php?id=beagle
What are people talking about?
CPU Usage
There has been a lot of discussion on the mailing list lately on the efficiency of the Beagle daemon. Currently Beagle is very greedy about CPU usage when doing its initial indexing.
On-line vs. Offline sources
There has been concern expressed over whether or not on-line resources should be included in search results. Problems come in when trying to compare results from different backends if some of the results are not coming from the indexer.
New Requirements
- Gecko-Sharp
- Evolution-Sharp
As always if you have any input to how the next Beagle Newsletter should be distributed or what should go in it please email Joe Gasiorek at joe.gasiorek@gmail.com
