Purpose: Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity in a structured manner and provides a powerful DBus API to query and monitor the log. Zeitgeist as such does not have a graphical component, but is intended to integrate wherever it makes sense.
Target: desktop Dependencies: For zeitgeist-daemon: Python >= 2.5. PyGObject, python-dbus, python-xdg For zeitgeist-datahub: Daemon deps + python-gtk and python-gconf To understand the roles of these two components please see "Other notes" below. The zeitgeist-daemon is a dependency for gnome-activity-journal. Resource usage: Bug tracker: http://bugs.launchpad.net/zeitgeist VCS: http://code.launchpad.net/zeitgeist Releases: http://launchpad.net/zeitgeist/+download Adoption: Packages (at least) for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuSE GNOME-ness, community: Zeitgeist was originally started as a project to power the Journal ideas seeded at the User Experience Hackfest in Oct. 2008. It's a pure community effort with only commercial backing being our last GSoC project and the Zeitgeist Hackfest in Bolzano 2009. Right now we are 4 core maintainers. We've striven to be open and visible in our development. This has also led to a steady inflow of new contributors. Other notes: What most people think of as Zeitgeist is split in two processes zeitgeist-daemon and zeitgeist-datahub. The daemon does not do any active monitoring for events, it only manages the log database and exposes a DBus interface for inserting, deleting, querying events, and monitoring for changes. The datahub monitors the system and pushes events into the daemon. This architecture makes the datahub expendable if we one day move to an architecture where apps themselves (or something else) push events into Zeitgeist. Indeed it's already the case that we have plugins for some apps that makes them push events into the daemon. Status and future: As you may have seen we recently rolled out our 0.3.3 release. When we complete our todos for 0.3.4 (https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist/+milestone/0.3.4) we are well on our way for a 1.0 release. We regard the core engine as it is as very stable and very near feature completion. We also have a release of the zeitgeist-dataproviders project (https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders) in the pipeline, it's a project containing a collection of different application plugins that provides Zeitgeist integration. -- On behalf of the Zeitgeist team, Mikkel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list