This is just a quick note. People often confuse Zeitgeist with the Activity Journal. The Journal is a centralized activity browser that uses Zeitgeist. Other implementations around the GNOME desktop will use Zeitgeist directly unless they just want to just display a specific day in the journal or information about a specific event. Something like tracker-search-tool mixed with Nautilus, except for activities instead of files.
> What are your long term user interface goals? We plan to finish tracker search support and add both a tracker tag cloud and a way to view a detailed description of an event. Beyond that, we would like to further refine the existing interface. > Do you see the > modification to the GNOME 2 UI being a new "Activity Journal" entry in > "Accessories" as being the end? I plan to merge a branch soon which provides a DBus interface to display specific day, or a specific event which could be used by other applications. Other than the possibility of applications using that interface Activity Journal will just be another application which exist in the menu. > * Do you expect users to launch this occasionally when they're looking > for something, or they keep it running? Users would launch it just as they would a file manager, which is to say, when they are looking for an activity. > * Have you given any thought to how this interacts with the file > picker, Nautilus, or the Places menu in GNOME 2? Journal should have almost nothing to do with those applications. If Zeitgeist features were added to those applications they could possibly have a option to launch the journal and show more information about the event or the day's activities using the aforementioned planned DBus interface. > * Have you looked at the GNOME 3 UI plans around files? I have seen the ThreePointZero plan wiki page, and the Activity Journal's goals are exactly what is defined there under the "Changing the way we access documents" section. Once we finish the tracker search and tag cloud, I believe we will be close to providing a part of that user experience. Zeitgeist and tracker integration in other key modules is really needed to provided that experience throughout the GNOME desktop. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list