Dashboard and Beagle Desktop Search Updates

Well, its been a while, but I wanted to give some brief updates on what I've been working on the past while.

1. Openoffice.org Dashboard Plugin - Its not pretty, its barely functional, but it does serve as a great proof of concept for how to grab text from an openoffice.org window. Which is all I really wanted to accomplish, hopefully once the dashboard architecture gets a little more fleshed out, and we get dashboard bindings available in some more languages, I'll get this working all the way to the point where we also get metadata and are generally useful. Either way, if your interested, here it is.
   
2. Updated Epiphany Plugin for Beagle - The beagle plugin for epiphany is archaic, outdated, slow, and insecure. And now its even starting to get bugs filed against it. Needless to say, its time for a facelift. I whipped up a patch that adds a new python-based epiphany plugin which uses the same mechanism that the firefox plugin does to get webpages to the daemon to be indexed.
3. Labyrinth Notes Backend for Beagle - I recently hacked up and committed a simple backend (based on the Tomboy backend) that indexes your labyrinth notes (should you have any ;) ).
4. Gedit Dashboard Plugin - nothing that exciting, I got the basic handlers to work, but I'm having a hard time with multiple documents and tabs. Once it actually generates cluepackets I'll post the code.

I guess thats about it, seemed like I had a longer list, but most of my time has been sucked into school and the upcoming Ubuntu release. (Mostly testing and the like, but more on that later)

Dashboard and Beagle

So I've had a somewhat uneventful day (after physics that is). And after getting bored and frustrated with beagle's Thunderbird backend, it seemed like time to explore another project. So, I started hacking together the beginnings of some good old fashioned plugins. You can follow/collaborate here if your interested. But for those of you that want the concise version:

• I have started work on 2 frontends, Gaim and Firefox
• The gaim one may not work at all (it seems that the mono bindings for gaim never really happened like they were planned).
• The firefox plugin should more or less work (leaning towards the more side even) I just need some more firefox-literate person to look over it and figure out why some of the packaging doesn't seem to be correct. (I think all the code is fine ;) ).