Jos's blog

No doubt, you have heard about FileLight. This is a KDE application that shows you how much disk space you use in a nice radial view.

And surely you are familiar with the Model/View classes in Qt 4. The separation of content and presentation can give you nice results. Once you start to build up a selection of models and of views, you can access and present you data with variety. A while ago I submitted a nice QAbstractItemView class, called WarpTree to the Qt programming contest. Now I've ported the Qt3 code of FileLight to the Qt 4 Model/View framework.

Have a look at the code.

aKademy 2007 starts on the 30th of June. I'm honored to give a talk there on the progress of Strigi and it's use within KDE4.
Till then, I want to achieve some goals to have a nice Strigi version to work with and to show off while at aKademy.

Here's a list of things that should be done by then:

• Minimal Xesam implementation
• strigicmd nicely working for index management
• All unit tests passing
• No more bugs

This should be doable, because most of the ambitious stuff is already in there and working. Now we need to make this power accessible to power users via strigicmd. In addition, Xesam support is important. This young effort to standardize on a common ontology and search query format for the free desktop search programs out there, is very important.