Comments on: Beagle tiles.. http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/ um, what do I write here? Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: dave http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-141 dave Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:25:27 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-141 Sorry to drag up an old post, but I saw something very neat in my HCI lecture yesterday. The instructor was showing on his slides a type of search mechanism that showed little boxes next to the title of the thing that matched the search, and those boxes were different colors. They represented the "hotness" of where the search terms occured in the document. I thought this was a much neater way of representing search results rather than just a snippet. Too bad the lecture was about something entirely different... Sorry to drag up an old post, but I saw something very neat in my HCI lecture yesterday. The instructor was showing on his slides a type of search mechanism that showed little boxes next to the title of the thing that matched the search, and those boxes were different colors. They represented the “hotness” of where the search terms occured in the document. I thought this was a much neater way of representing search results rather than just a snippet. Too bad the lecture was about something entirely different…

]]> By: Chris http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-96 Chris Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:53:02 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-96 I wanted to have something like this when I wrote the <a href="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/">Tomboy</a> indexer, though never got round to asking how easy it would be to get the context. Thinking about it, as the Lucene backend doesn't keep the full text of documents, each result would probably require a re-parse of the original document (slow and only available for local docs), or would require at least a full plain text copy of the document in the Lucene index (thus creating a massive index). There has been <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/lucene-sandbox/#Term%20Highlighter">some work</a> on this in the original Lucene, but is not contained in the (abandoned?) Lucene.NET source.. hmm. I wanted to have something like this when I wrote the Tomboy indexer, though never got round to asking how easy it would be to get the context.
Thinking about it, as the Lucene backend doesn’t keep the full text of documents, each result would probably require a re-parse of the original document (slow and only available for local docs), or would require at least a full plain text copy of the document in the Lucene index (thus creating a massive index).

There has been some work on this in the original Lucene, but is not contained in the (abandoned?) Lucene.NET source.. hmm.

]]> By: Mårten Woxberg http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-70 Mårten Woxberg Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:53:46 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-70 It would be great if it hyperlinked gedit or relevant application to the file aswell (if it doesn't already) so when you click your matched search you are taken to that row in the file in a gedit window. I don't know if gedit support command-line parameters on which line it should have centered on startup... but it would be cool It would be great if it hyperlinked gedit or relevant application to the file aswell (if it doesn’t already) so when you click your matched search you are taken to that row in the file in a gedit window. I don’t know if gedit support command-line parameters on which line it should have centered on startup… but it would be cool

]]> By: Tuomas http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-69 Tuomas Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:37:32 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-69 Yeah, that too. Or if one searches mail in Beagle, it might be useful to display the context of the searched term rather than the beginning of the mail.. Hm. Or would it make sense to show both? "Hi Strass! I was thinking ... foo bar blah [b][color=#FFCC66]beagle[/color][/b] blah foo bar..." or something..? Yeah, that too. Or if one searches mail in Beagle, it might be useful to display the context of the searched term rather than the beginning of the mail.. Hm. Or would it make sense to show both?

“Hi Strass! I was thinking … foo bar blah [b][color=#FFCC66]beagle[/color][/b] blah foo bar…”

or something..?

]]> By: Strass http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-67 Strass Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:32:30 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/09/23/beagle-tiles/#comment-67 And displaying the first words of a mail in your mailbox, like in Gmail, is very useful too! And displaying the first words of a mail in your mailbox, like in Gmail, is very useful too!

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