Comment 59 for bug 646724

The program locate/slocate keeps a database of all files so that
searching is quick, for example.

2011/10/16 Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा <email address hidden>:
> On Oct 16, 2011 4:35 PM, "Bernhard" <email address hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I never understood why the file lens is depending on zeitgeist logs.
>> When I search for files, I usually want to search them all, not just my
>> recent files.
>
> As per you how shall it be done? I know the present way has shortcomings.
> Please provide a solution if available. It will be surely implemented
>
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> Title:
>  not all files show up in files-place
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Triaged
> Status in Unity 2D:
>  Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Lens:
>  Triaged
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
>  Invalid
> Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
>  Invalid
> Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
>
> 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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