Comment 48 for bug 602211

Agreed I think I am overthinking it a bit. I am pretty ok with this solution
but we shouldn't jump dive into it unless we are pretty comfortable all of
us. What will break is also an issue for me..

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> On 15 November 2010 21:07, Seif Lotfy <email address hidden> wrote:
> > SNIP
> > So lets say I have a file that has been moved from /home/seif/foo to
> > /home/seif/bar. This means I query for all events where subject_uri =
> > /home/seif/foo so I get all results until the point it was moved, right?
> And
> > if I ask for /home/seif/bar I get all events with subject_uri =
> > /home/seif/foo as well as all subject_uri = /home/seif/bar ... ?
>
> We still do strict template matching. If you query for event with
> subject_uri=bar then you wont get any events with subject_uri=foo,
> disregarding the subject_current_uri.
>
> Otoh if you query for events with subject_current_uri=bar you will get
> all events for subject_uri=foo too because these events will have been
> set to subject_current_uri=bar. Note that we are *not* being clever
> about matching on both the subject_uri and subject_current_uri fields.
> It's still strict matching on the subject_current_uri field that gives
> you these results.
>
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> Monitoring Create/Move/Copy Files events
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602211
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> Status in Unity: Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Place: Triaged
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Confirmed
> Status in Zeitgeist Datahub: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> An issue we are facing at the moment is that ppl lose track of there files
> in a timeline if the file was moved around or renamed. I would propose using
> taskview or patch nautilus to actually grab those events and either:
> 1) Modify the uris in the uris table
> 2) Create a new table with | new_id | old_uri_id | event | to map uris
> to their actual ids and the event that allowed the change, this would allow
> us to track a history of renaming or moving a file. It will look a bit like
> the following:
>
> 9 | 9 | 48124 # CREATE EVENT
> 12 | 9 | 48126 # MOVE EVENT
>
> In other words the last row means uri 12 was moved from uri 9 with event
> 48126
>
> UPDATE:
>
> 3) Create a changable_uri table that is a map of the uri table. it gets
> updated upon moved and rename.
> We then add new resulttype that allow you to ask for either pureSubject or
> adaptedSubject. depending on which one is chosen we then use the according
> table in the join of the find_events_query :)
>
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