From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-12-06T17:10:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Linux PIM in Ruby

Hal Fulton wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, December 6, 2003, 4:34:01 PM, Hal wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone interested in working on this with me??
>>
>>
>> I use Info Select as well and really like it.  Like you, I don't use
>> all its features, but I haven't really come across things I've wanted
>> to turn off.
>>
>> I would certainly contribute to any effort you make to create a
>> similar (and simpler) program, but I wouldn't have time to work on it
>> all the time.
>
>
> Nor would I be able to work on it every day. But I find if I'm working
> with someone else, I leave something on the backburner for shorter
> periods of time.
>
> I'd begin with a tree list (of categories) on the left and a window of
> overlapping text widgets on the right.
>
> Beginning functionality:
>  - create/delete/rename categories
>  - create/delete/edit/move/copy notes
>  - search
>
I'm also interested in this. The reason I started doing a port of lucene 
to Ruby
was that I wanted to use it as the search function for such an 
"unstructured" db of
info. I felt that reldb's are the wrong way to go for many apps since 
the info
is not structured and you'll get enough speed anyway with text indexing 
alg's.

> And that's about it. That would be pretty much the functionality
> of Tornado in 1987, which wasn't even a GUI.
>
> Speaking of GUIs: What's your toolkit of choice?
>
I've used Fox but checked out GTK/Gnome2 some time ago and was quite 
impressed.
I don't know the state of wxruby though.

Regards,

Robert