Editing Beagle (software)

{{Short description|Search system for Unix}}
{{primary sources|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Beagle
| logo                   = Beagle logo.png<!-- Image name is enough -->
| logo alt               = 
| screenshot             = Beagle-search.png<!-- Image name is enough -->
| caption                = A screenshot of Beagle's UI
| screenshot alt         = 
| collapsible            = 
| author                 = 
| developer              = Beagle Team
| released               = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} -->
| discontinued           = yes
| latest release version = 0.3.9
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2009|01|26}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date    = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} -->
| programming language   = [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]
| operating system       = [[Linux]], other [[Unix]] and Unix-like systems
| platform               = 
| size                   = 
| language               = 
| language count         = <!-- Number only -->
| language footnote      = 
| genre                  = [[desktop search|Search tool]]
| license                = A mix of the [[MIT License|X11/MIT License]] and the [[Apache License]]
| website                = {{URL|www.beagle-project.org}}
| standard               = 
| AsOf                   = 
}}
[[Image:Best.png|thumb|Old user interface for Beagle, code named Best]]
'''Beagle''' is a [[desktop search|search system]] for [[Linux]] and other [[Unix-like]] systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists. It is not actively developed.<ref>[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2010-January/msg00001.html not actively developed]</ref>

Beagle grew out of Dashboard,<ref>[https://archive.today/20130415100515/http://nat.org/dashboard/ Dashboard]</ref> an early [[Mono (software)|Mono]]-based application for watching and presenting useful information from a user's computer. It is written in [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] using Mono and uses a port of [[Lucene]] to C# called [[Lucene.Net]] as its [[Search engine indexing|indexer]]. Beagle includes a [[Gtk Sharp|Gtk#]]-based user interface, and integrates with Galago for [[presence information]].

Beagle was developed and maintained by [[Joe Shaw (programmer)|Joe Shaw]] with help from the [[Open-source software|open source]] community. Notable contributors included [[Jon Trowbridge]], [[Robert Love]], [[Nat Friedman]] and [[David Camp (programmer)|David Camp]].

== Features ==
Beagle searches the content of documents and associated metadata. Users can search for:
* Applications
* Archives ([[ZIP (file format)|zip]], [[tar (file format)|tar]], [[gzip]], [[bzip2]]) and their contents
* Conversations ([[Pidgin (software)|Pidgin]], [[Kopete]] and [[IRC]] logs)
* Documents ([[AbiWord]], [[OpenOffice.org]], [[Microsoft Office]], [[Portable Document Format|pdf]], [[.txt|txt]], [[Rich Text Format|rtf]], [[HTML]])
* [[Email]]s and address book contacts (from [[Novell Evolution|Evolution]], [[Mozilla Thunderbird]] (header info only) and [[KMail]])
* Help files ([[Texinfo]], [[man pages]])
* Images ([[Portable Network Graphics|png]], [[JPEG|jpg]], [[TIFF|tiff]], [[GIF|gif]], [[Scalable Vector Graphics|svg]])
* Music files ([[MP3|mp3]], [[ogg]], [[FLAC|flac]])
* Notes taken in [[Tomboy (software)|Tomboy]], [[KNotes]], and Labyrinth
* [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds (via [[Blam (software)|Blam]] or [[Akregator]])
* [[Source code]] ([[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Fortran]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[JavaScript]], [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]] and more)
* Video files (through [[MPlayer]] or [[Totem (media player)|Totem]])
* Web history ([[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], [[Epiphany (web browser)|Epiphany]])

Beagle can also index additional file types not natively supported using external tools through a configuration file.

On Linux, Beagle efficiently indexes documents using [[inotify]] without the need for frequent reindexing.

== See also ==
*[[Desktop search]]
*[[List of search engines#Desktop search engines|List of desktop search engines]]
*[[Tracker (search software)|Tracker]], an actively developed search system
*[[Recoll]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Beagle (software)}}
* {{Official website|www.beagle-project.org}}
* [https://archive.today/20130415122550/http://nat.org/demos Nat's flash demos of Beagle]
* [http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=38289 Peagle-Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307052451/http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=38289 |date=2008-03-07 }} (PHP-Based Web-Frontend for Beagle)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071022080616/http://beagle2.kbs.uni-hannover.de/ Beagle++] - a [[NEPOMUK (framework)|NEPOMUK]]-based extension of Beagle for [[semantic desktop]] search

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