


Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments
http://primates.ximian.com/~glesage/logos/beagle/
(they are under a reasonably free license, do whatever you want but dont abuse it :).
Anything not quite the same as in those files would do. Note that, the face of a beagle with a 'K' is probably taken by kerry (KDE beagle search app).
Thanks you advance. - Jan 18 2008

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments
$ appletproxy kbeaglebar
That will open a small window with the applet icon. See if that one crashes. If it crashes, then there will be some stacktrace on the konsole; paste them here or email them to me @ dbera.web@gmail.com
*** appletproxy is just a debugging tool. It will help you in getting a stacktrace where it crashed. The crash information can also be obtained if KDE crash handler starts or from ~/.xsession-errors file. - Jul 11 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments
Looks like a debian coreutils bug to me. Please post here if they bounce back and say its the package's fault. - Apr 14 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments
Can you query beagle using other means ? i.e. other clients, beagle-query etc.
Run this from konsole
$ appletproxy kbeaglebar
this will open a window with the kbeaglebar icon in it. Submit a query using that. What is the output in the konsole ? - Mar 21 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments
In the unfortunate event that this occurs again, you can use
dcop kicker kicker restart
from a terminal to restart kicker (not sure if that works from a tty, but should).
The problem should be fixed in kbeaglebar itself. If you have the program appletproxy, then try
$ appletproxy kbeaglebar
That will open a small window with the applet icon. If it hangs, you can close the window to stop it :). If you can reproduce the hang, I would be glad to fix it. - Mar 09 2006

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1) Imagine you know you visited a kde-apps website on kbeaglebar, and it was a comments page containing the text konqueror. You want to reach this page ... quickly. If you know you can form a query to uniquely identify that webpage, count the effort for the applet and a webbased page.
For the applet, press ctrl-alt-space, type in "type=WebHistory kde apps kbeaglebar konqueror", pause for 1/2 sec, the results show up. You see the title of the webpages and the beginning of the url ... hopefully the webpage you want is within the top few. You scroll down with the cursor (since 1/2 second ago you were typing in the box, its easy to move the cursor) and hit enter. Done.
With the webbased approach, you need to open konqueror (or always have a konqueror open, which is same as not counting the ctrl-alt-space step), type the (same) query in search box, press enter. Locate the result as before and move your mouse to the result and click on the link.
The applet is for cases when you pretty much know what you are looking for and you are lazy to actually traverse links/folders/emails to find it.
2) When you need more information or more options, you need a specialized search interface. I believe a kio slave is a better option than a webbased interface, since the io slave will present results in a similar way and can be used in any dialogs, (even in alt-f2 dialog). There used to be a kio-slave for beagle (search on kde-apps) and there is one currently in development (its in kde playground svn, named kwest).
Hope I made my motivation clear. - Mar 08 2006

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 42 comments
Also, I am toying with the idea of showing the icons besides the filetype. My concern is fetching the icons would slow down display of results sometimes ... But I will look into it !
Thanks for your comments. - Feb 28 2006

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$ make -f Makefile.cvs
first, followed by ./configure etc.
Writing from memory, so I am not sure.
Good luck,
- d. - Feb 26 2006

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kio-beagle wont build with the latest beagle (0.2.1). There was some change in beagle api which caused this. While this isnt difficult to fix, I am working with the developer of kwest to write a better kio-slave for clucene and beagle. The project is named "kwest" and its near the point of a release. kwest will provide bettern beagle experience, with increased robustness, ability to save searches and more query options.
I will link kwest release announcement here too ... so keep watching this space.
Till then, thanks for your patience.
- dBera - Feb 24 2006

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Are you talking about yaBi - which is a python script and has the usual kde dependencies and pykde ?
Or you are talking about beagle - which is a dependency beast ?
(I dont disagree either of the questions, btw)
I smell a klikable beagle in the air 8-P - Feb 03 2006

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Some incompatibility between your KDE and PyKDE :( I dont have SuSE, so cant really help. Did you use a SuSE pykde-package or a generic one ? Maybe compiling PyKDE will help (its not that difficult to build).
You might also be able to get some more input in the pykde mailing list. The error happens in "import kio" and is _not_ a fault of yaBi, so pykde should be able to help. - Feb 03 2006

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About debian packaging, I am exploring the python options for packaging. I dont want to take the autotools approach, its too complicated; I dont like the PyKDE extension either, since it means a dependency. If there are any suggestions, let me know. I have no prior experience in python packaging.
TIA, -d. - Feb 02 2006

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e.g. check
http://dbera.blogspot.com/2006/01/apple-announced-macbook-pro-bit-more.html
"test blog from new kblogger" was used as the title and the currently_large_title was the text of the post. I doubt this is the intended behaviour.
I am using blogger API, URL as mentioned in the announcement. - Jan 10 2006

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That aside, yaBi is order of magnitude faster than Best, and is able to provide KDE associations for results. At least these were the 2 main motivations.
If you want to remove all the gnome-ness ... you can actually build beagle without gnome-sharp and family. Read the last paragraph of http://dbera.blogspot.com/2005/12/yabi-02-update.html
for more information.
Thanks for your appreciation,
- d. - Jan 10 2006

Various KDE Stuff by dbera 31 comments

Various KDE Stuff by dbera 31 comments
Second, you are definitely not using beagle-0.1.4 (mentioned in the requirements). The counters are not reset, results not displayed are due to that exception which was fixed in beagle-0.1.4. Make sure your python-beagle bindings are from beagle-0.1.4 - Jan 08 2006

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1. You can use the command-line tool beagle-ping to see if beagled is running ?
(In future versions, I will add checking, starting and stopping beagled from yaBi).
2. If it is running, try the same query with command line beagle-query (the advanced query syntax for beagle-query is a little different; check it using beagle-query --help) and check the results. If you find no search results even with beagle-query and you believe that the query is correct, then you ran into sum new bug. Please help beagle by following it up in beagle-bugzilla
3. If beagle-query returns results but yaBi doesnt, double check the query syntax for yaBi (if possible paste both yaBi and beagle-query strings here). You might have found a yaBi bug, which is too bad and should be fixed asap. - Jan 08 2006

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http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pykde/download.php - Jan 08 2006

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Also, if you are looking for KDE client for beagle (to use KDE applications to open search results), search for 'yabi' in kde-apps.org. - Jan 06 2006

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- d. - Jan 06 2006

Various KDE Stuff by dbera 31 comments

Various KDE Stuff by dbera 31 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 25 comments

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 25 comments
seriously, its the free software world - like it use it, dont like it find something else or write your own. - Aug 31 2005

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http://cs-people.bu.edu/dbera/blogdata/kio_beagle-0.2.tar.gz
MD5sum
66ad8ac6ee0add0a4be74279ab7d4934 kio_beagle-0.2.tar.gz - Aug 31 2005

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by dbera 25 comments