Comment 4 for bug 646724

Hey I would like you to notice
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders
<https://code.edge.launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders>We cover a lot of
dataproviders in the trunk of this subproject and maybe a more focused
dedication into pushing these sets of applications plugins upstream or
downstream would help. Currently trunk covers most of the default
applications that ship with Ubuntu. We intend to package these sets of
dataproviders for Ubuntu soon.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

>
> Reporter, we agree that seeing the world though a Zeitgeist filter is
> risky, and causes problems when apps are not integrated, directly or
> indirectly, with ZG.
>
> Mikkel, would you agree it's better to close this by aiming for more
> complete Zeitgeist coverage (or .xbel coverage) than by re-architecting
> for some sort of periodic Tracker like sweep of the home dir?
>
> If so, I recommend this bug be turned into a tracking bug for ZG
> integration, with tasks on each of the apps that, in time, need to be
> integrated.
>
> However, I wonder if we aren't going to *have* to do some sort of
> forcing function eventually, so that we can be sure that any content
> *does* eventually get picked up, one way or the other. Because it seems
> weird that there might always be a hole in our search.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> not all files show up in files-place
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724
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> Status in Unity: Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Place: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to
> files/documents etc. is really great.
>
> However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on
> zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.
>
> E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from
> within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably because
> openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.
>
> I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.
>
> For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will
> create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their
> applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the Unity
> files-place interface.
>
> To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a filesystem
> watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that zeitgeist is
> aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware applications.
>
>
>

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