Excluded directory shown in recent files when accessed

[Ian Gibbs]

With the "Privacy" tool, I set /home/user/Private to be excluded. I browsed to the folder in Nautilus, then opened files inside the folder. FIles inside the folder are not logged, but the folder itself is. Thus "Private" shows up in my recent files, negating the point of excluding it.

Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

user@office:~$ dpkg -l | grep zeitgeist
ii libzeitgeist-1.0-1 0.3.18-1ubuntu1 library to access Zeitgeist - shared library
ii python-zeitgeist 0.9.0-1ubuntu1 event logging framework - Python bindings
ii rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist 2.96-0ubuntu4.2 zeitgeist plugin for rhythmbox music player
ii zeitgeist 0.9.0-1ubuntu1 event logging framework
ii zeitgeist-core 0.9.0-1ubuntu1 event logging framework - engine
ii zeitgeist-datahub 0.8.2-1ubuntu2 event logging framework - passive logging daemon

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

Will have to try to reproduce it

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Reassigning to Zeitgeist since it does the filtering.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

I think I understood what happens. In the blacklist plugin of zeitgeist, everytime a URL is being logged, we need to check if it is a symlink. If it is a symlink, then try to resolve it. Now check if the resolved URI is blacklisted. If yes, drop the current event

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

This is still happening in 16.04:

$ uname -a
Linux vanhalen 4.4.0-64-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 20 11:50:30 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial