I am on it already :) On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM, KarlRelton < karllinuxtest.rel...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Wrt to comment #23, I remember over a year ago in blog-posts or wherever > some communication between Seif of Zeitgeist fame and the Tracker people > about integration/linking together. There was talk of one of them > pushing events to the other. > > Certainly if Tracker pushed an event to Zeitgeist everytime it > 'discovered' a new file, that would certainly help Zeitgeist to be aware > of alot more of the user's filesystem. If the user is using Tracker, > then resource-wise the user would be no worse off, since Tracker is > already doing the crawling & monitoring anyway. > > However, of course Tracker itself is configured by the user to NOT crawl > their whole filesystem, so for some users it is arguably still > incomplete (though it would be good enough for my own uses). > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to unity- > place-files. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724 > > Title: > not all files show up in files-place > > Status in Unity: > Triaged > Status in Unity Files Place: > Triaged > Status in Zeitgeist Framework: > Fix Released > Status in Zeitgeist Data-Providers: > Invalid > 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. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724 Title: not all files show up in files-place -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
