Comment 12 for bug 425258

uhm other way round where the subject came from :)

2009/11/24 Siegfried Gevatter <email address hidden>

> Seif: Thanks for your kind words.
>
> Everyone: Okay now that I'm home (wrote the previous message when
> checking mails from the phone, so that I don't forget to answer :P),
> here comes what I wanted to say.
>
> As I understand it, the point for "origin" is to know where a particular
> event came from. So, eg. if you are on a website and there's and you
> click on a link to download a PDF, the resulting DOWNLOAD_EVENT would
> have the page where the link was as origin (as opposed to the online
> location of the PDF, which is an information that should go into
> Tracker). If I am on page1.com/links and there I click on page2.com/foo,
> the resulting VISIT_EVENT with subject page2.com/foo would have origin
> page1.com/links, if I read a mail and there I right click on an e-mail
> address and add it to my contacts list (in case we ever log that) would
> give an event where the origin is the e-mail you were reading, etc. Like
> this I think events make sense and are useful, even though I'm not sure
> they are worth the mess (which is why I wouldn't disagree with removing
> them entirely).
>
> About just storing the domain name or the document, what's the point?
> It's just duplication of information. For filtering we should support
> full text searches (in URI and Title), using the origin (which for this
> is also named wrongly, btw, it should be called "root" rather than
> "origin") is rather useless; why would someone want to look for items in
> /home? What I want is to look at items in /home/rainct/Documents/Foobar/
> containing "lala" in the filename.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> origin should be a property of events, not items
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/425258
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> Bug description:
> Both http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist/DatabaseDesign and our current
> implementation have "origin" as a property of items, but this makes no
> sense, as the origin can be different for every event and should as such be
> a property of it. (Further, to improve disk space usage we should save the
> actual value of it in the "uri" table).
>
> I'm filling this bug so that we don't remember to fix it, but please let's
> ignore it until we get the basic event/item separation stuff merged - most
> important stuff first.
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