The idea behind the Activity Journal was both misinterpreted or misrepresented. Some where along the line people began to think zeitgeist features around the desktop was the goal of the Activity Journal, however the Activity Journal is really a centralized event browser not a collective project. Often people spoke about adding Activity Journal features to their modules when they really meant zeitgeist not embedding the Journal UI.
Still implementing zeitgeist features around GNOME is something that a lot of us in the zeitgeist project are interested in, and are starting work towards. If datasource extensions propagate throughout the desktop and more modules start implementing features utilizing zeitgeist it will be beneficial to have the Activity Journal installed to answer more generic questions then those features implemented in other modules are able to. Kind of like how you have a file browser and do not depend application's open save dialogs for everything. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Seif Lotfy <seiflo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Can you please elaborate why GAJ was not accepted... > We are still clueless :) > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Thorsten Prante <thors...@prante.eu> wrote: >> >> Purpose: >> >> GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. >> >> It uses the Zeitgeist Framework to display what you did and introduces a >> better way of quickly finding the things that you were doing. >> >> >> >> Target: desktop >> >> >> >> Dependencies: >> >> Zeitgeist (external) >> >> PyGTK >> >> Python 2.5 >> >> Cairo >> >> DBus >> >> Pango >> >> >> >> Resource usage: >> >> Bug tracker: http://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal >> >> VCS: http://code.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal >> >> Releases: http://launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/+download >> >> >> >> We are waiting on GNOME git approval for a new repository at which point >> all resources will be moved to the GNOME Infrastructure. >> >> >> >> Adoption: >> >> Packages (at least) for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuSE >> >> >> >> GNOME-ness, community: >> >> GNOME Activity Journal is a pure community effort with the only commercial >> backing being our last GSoC project and the Zeitgeist Hackfest in Bolzano >> 2009. Right now, we are 2 core maintainers, 4 developers, and 2 designers. >> We've striven to be open and visible in our development. This has also led >> to a steady inflow of new contributors. >> >> >> >> Other notes: >> >> ... >> >> >> >> Status and future: >> >> The Journal is able to display all events of applications currently >> supported by Zeitgeist, such as: >> >> - Totem >> >> - gedit >> >> - eog >> >> - Banshee >> >> - Rhythmbox >> >> - Tomboy >> >> - Firefox >> >> - git >> >> - bzr >> >> - Telepathy >> >> - vim >> >> - ... Anything that pushes into Recently Used >> >> We will provide a data-providers setup and management tool with our next >> release. >> >> >> >> We are working to solve the performance issues on startup, caused by the >> amount of data that is being requested over DBus from Zeitgeist. Our next >> release should provide a proper solution. >> >> >> >> There is a more detailed plan attached to our 0.3.4 release announcement >> [1]. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> On behalf of the GNOME Activity Journal team, >> >> Thorsten >> >> >> >> [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/gnome-zeitgeist-users/msg00048.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> desktop-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > > -- > This is me doing some advertisement for my blog http://seilo.geekyogre.com > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list