On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Didier Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, this seem a right goal, it's part of things I tracked, but wasn't > considered a priority last cycle with all the other changes coming. Now, > it's maybe time to integrate them.
Sounds good. > Now some questions: > - do you have automatic testsuite for them, running on different versions of > upstream projects? Not right now, but I can create them. I can create them for atleast those apps which are default in Ubuntu > - how do oyu work with firefox in particular, where we update the released > version through release life? We generally avoid shipping plugins for this > reason. Our old version of firefox datasource was using XUL/binary components. After the horror, of it breaking every cycle, Mark Tully ported it to js-ctypes. js-ctypes was introduced in Firefox 4.0. So, an upgrade won't break it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/js-ctypes http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/hello-js-ctypes-goodbye-binary-components/ Mark Tully also has also created an internet/web lens which can use the events of firefox and thunderbird. > - can you elaborate on one of the major flaw of zeitgeist which seems a > bigger priority to me: when you plug an usb key, or have a windows/ubuntu > partition, as zeitgeist isn't a indexer, we can't see them in the file lens > in particularly. I know that Seif has a script for that, but it doesn't seem > to be suited for indexing and Mikkel has some concerns about it. Can we put > that on the table as one of the priority for Precise? Yes, that script is present in activity-log-manager (the version is not released). I was working on it and found that the current version was pretty slow. Probably some tricks can be undertaken to make it index only upto a specific depth. The other option can be that file-lens can use a hybrid of zeitgeist for usage, relevancy and all usage based recommendation and hook to "locate" unix tool for searching. Correct me, if I am wrong, but locate does keep indexing files? Right? > >> My proposal does not start and end with datasources. We should >> also include activity-log-manager in the default install. This >> application is a privacy and history manager. You can blacklist >> applications, set zeitgeist in incognito mode, erase history etc. >> > We discussed that this cycle already, and I think that it should really be > integrated in gnome-control-center rather than having another capplet. Do > you think it's possible? Yes. It is possible. I never worked on gnome-control-center, but it is possible. The first release was created in hurry to check how much options we can provide to the user. The current codebase of activity-log-manager is in python. Does gnome-control-center have it's components/plugs (or whatever they call it) written in python? - Manish -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
