Lobotomy Project

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2009-03-25 16:49:41 - New Website
After a long long time of inertia the Lobotomy Project reboots on a brand new website, available at http://lobotomy-project.org . The new site is currently under development, some of the old contents are migrating (and other will be dropped) and the whole project is going to be reviewed accordly latest architectural design. Those pages will be maintained for some time as a reference about old developments, hoping to be interesting for someone.
2008-08-27 11:32:21 - Document: Thoughts
From the Synapse subproject page is now available a new document (in Italian only, sorry...) explaining the templating environment which have to be implemented in 0.3.X series, already mentioned in past papers but now more deeply revisited. The XML language have to be more specified, but what just published describe well enough the direction for the whole project
2008-02-21 15:41:31 - Document: Deja vu
Just published an informal document describing a (far) future feature to implement in the new Synapse implementation (the one beginning with 0.3.x series of Lobotomy and substituting BrainTop as desktop manager): the cronological taskbar, friendly called "Deja vu". The concept have been partially explored and is scheduled for more analysis, feedback is welcome.
2008-02-17 12:23:11 - Hyppocampus 0.3rc2 released
After long time, 0.3rc2 is released. Most of work have been in LibHyppo and the new VFS API, which now sports a set of objects which rappresent different level of informations from the filesystem and a notification system based on DBus interaction with SubConsciousDaemon 0.4.3.
2008-02-17 12:19:56 - SubConsciousDaemon 0.4.2 released
The 0.4.3 of SubConscious Daemon is available for downloads: it now includes a fundamental part of the notification subsystem implemented in Hyppocampus and LibHyppo 0.3rc2, and is more integrated with the whole system. The execution of this release is required to handle observers API at runtime in the current VFS abstraction.
2007-08-17 10:33:08 - Hyppocampus 0.3rc1 released
Jump of version series for the Hyppocampus filesystem. The new release have been completely rewritten: the internal index in the binary file have been dropped and substituted by a real RDBMS interfaced by LibDBI. This is a main issue for the project: now are admitted interrogation queries richer and complex, with multiple metadata in the SELECT, in the GROUP BY, and finally are implemented the ORDER BY and the NOT operator. This release is a transitional one: more features have to be included against the completely new engine (the support for external plugins have been temporary suspended), and at the same time the other components involved in Lobotomy have to be upgraded to the little changes in the public API.
2007-06-09 11:35:35 - SubConsciousDaemon 0.4.2 released
The 0.4.2 release of SubConsciousDaemon is out: here you find the new LibSubConscious, which actually only contains API for plugins but in the near future will include all functions to hook the daemon and be notified about changes on Hyppocampus filesystem, and a new plugin dedicated to the automatic extraction of keywords from textual documents.
2007-06-09 11:29:37 - Hyppocampus 0.2.3 released
In the 0.2.3 release of Hyppocampus you find a first implementation of VIEWs: now you are able to save queries and access them as you access folders. Some main bugs fixed, and the group of previously released tool dedicated to the command-line navigation have been substituted with a single executable which checks queries and traslate in paths suitable for Hyppocampus navigation
2007-06-09 11:24:56 - Kiazma 0.2.3 released
Shipped with the 0.2.3 release of Synapse you find the new version of Kiazma: the main attentions have been paid for the heavy modification of the KiazmaIconStackedView, which in the near future will implements the "environmental mapping" explained in related document you find in "Documentation" page. This is to consider a development release.
2007-06-09 11:21:20 - Synapse 0.2.3 released
The 0.2.3 version of Synapse have been released. Also if in this code changes are minimal (mainly bugfixes), the final application look a little different due modifications in Kiazma: a new query editor is present, and the icons presentation appears ugly due experimentations with the KiazmaIconStackedView which have to be tuned. This is to consider a development release.