yaBi 0.6.1

yaBi (Yet Another Beagle search Interface) is a python-kde-beagle search
interface to find information from beagle.
yaBi uses snappy KHTML to display results, CSS for designing and super-fast beagle-python bindings to retrieve search results. It uses kde preview service to display thumbnails and also shows kde-associated applications for results.
To run, download the file,
$ tar zxvf yabi-0.5.tar.gz
$ cd yabi-0.5
$ ./yabi.py
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Main features:
- Separation of search results into categories like Music, Pictures, RSS, Webhistory,
- Other files, Mails etc. and showing them in different tabs.
- Summary tab to show the time taken to query, search result summary.
- Formatting of search result done using CSS (and some javascript). Change yabi.css and yabi.js to suit your taste.
- Shows indexed information about results e.g. time when indexed, full path, title (if any), sender (if mail) etc.
- Shows relevant actions (according to the users KDE associations) and standard actions like open in terminal, reveal in konqueror, send as email-attachment.
- Shows thumbnail (on-demand, as thumbnail generation can be slow for certain files).
- Retrieves snippets from beagle in background and displays them when requested.
- Clusters webhistory results into websites and emails into conversations. This helps a lot when the user knows what website/email-conversation might be of interest.
- User can use keyword queries to search specific metadata like extension or sender email-address. Also, allows various specifiers to restrict query by dates, source, type etc.
- It should be clear by now that beagle allows an elaborate query syntax to fetch you just the information you need. There is a easy-accessible help tab which explains the syntax in great detail.
- Information tab to show current beagle status and index information.
- Allow starting/stopping of beagle daemon from the GUI.
- Save queries in bookmarks.