[openbeos] Re: googlefs working in Haiku
- From: Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:53:53 +0000
I saw the GoogleFS commits on cia. Is it enabled in the build by default? I
think it would be potentially confusing for new users to see a fake Google hard
disk. Although a neat solution, it seems a bit hacky - the find box really
ought to be aware of whether a file search or web search is happening (to
prevent things like "modified after" searches from going to google). Also isn't
"All Drives" the default for searching - leading to users looking for a file on
their computer being presented with a mixture of local results and those from
the web? I haven't got a BeOS partition atm and have never used GoogleFS, so
apologies if any of that is incorrect.
I do like GoogleFS as a concept, but I think it should be something that is
disabled by default to prevent confusion for new users.
Simon
>
> From: "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2007/01/21 Sun AM 07:21:33 GMT
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: googlefs working in Haiku
>
> Just in time for the google tech talks! :)
>
> On 1/19/07, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In case you missed the logs, I commited googlefs to svn, and fixed it
> > to work with Haiku's VFS. It's probably a simple enough (the kernel
> > interface, the rest is ugly :P) sample on how to keep R5 source
> > compatibility for fs modules.
> > It's also showing how to use sockets from the kernel. ksocket.h is a
> > wrapper that can also be used with userland (testing) and BONE.
> > The rest of the code is not for the faint hearts, mostly written in a
> > rush and never cleaned up.
> >
> > For those who lived in an alternate universe,
> > simply put it's an 8-billion entries queriable bookmark.
> >
> > For the eyes:
> > http://revolf.free.fr/beos/shots/shot_googlefs_haiku_002.png
> >
> > For the impatients:
> >
> > * svn up && jam an image
> > * make sure your network is set up (qemu handles DHCP nicely it seems).
> > * in the terminal, type:
> > mkdir /google
> > mount -t googlefs /google
> >
> > * you can now use the "Search Google" query template in the "Google"
> > volume.
> >
> > For sorting handiness you can add this to your mime db:
> > setmime -add application/x-vnd.Be-bookmark \
> > -attribute "GOOGLE:order" -attrName "Google order" \
> > -attrType 'LONG' -attrWidth 40 -attrAlignment right \
> > -attrViewable 1 -attrEditable 1 -attrExtra 0
> >
> > and make a default query template with it sorted.
> >
> > François.
> >
> >
>
>
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