Comment 6 for bug 646511

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> On 24/09/10 08:37, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > I tend to agree that the message is misleading, I just blindly followed
> > the orders of the design team :-)
>
> I'm not convinced those orders included "ignore files that have never
> been opened" ;-)
>
> --
> Incorrect message when no music/videos has been played
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646511
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> Status in Unity: Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Place: Triaged
> Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: unity-place-files
>
> When I go into the Files place and then the Audio tab, I get a message that
> says "There are no audio files in your Home folder" or some such. But I
> have lots of audio files in my home folder (well, my Music folder)!
>
> What it *should* say is "You have not played any audio files from your Home
> folder", because once I do play one directly by browsing, it shows up in the
> audio tab. Note that playing files from rhythmbox does not seem to be
> sufficient.
>
> So, (A) rhythmbox played files should show up I think? (B), it would be
> nice if the Audio tab showed all audio files present, whether played or not
> as a backup or in addition to the time-based view. (C) the message should
> be clearer. I was worried that either my music was gone or that the Place
> couldn't find them for some reason.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: unity-place-files 0.5.26-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Sep 23 21:30:04 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: unity-place-files
>
>
>
I am not sure how this issue can be covered.
My only thought for that would be to scan the Music Directory and take the
timestamps of all the music files in there and push events with these
timestamp to Zeitgeist. But its not really a solution that should be done on
the Zeitgeist side.