On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Trever Fischer <tdfisc...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > If you haven't been keeping up with Phonon development recently, no biggie. > Very recently, we introduced an optional build time dependency on QZeitgeist. > Today, someone said I should mention this to k-c-d. So here goes: > > * What is QZeitgeist? > A library that neatly wraps the Zeitgeist dbus API with some QObjects. > > * Okay, but what is Zeitgeist? > A desktop history tracker. You do things. Things such as: view a website, play > music, chat with friends, read mail, write a document, post to identi.ca, or > work with stuff in inkscape. Zeitgeist then compiles for you a database of > everything you've done and intelligently links things together. > > Example: I read a mail from my dad. Inside the mail was a hi-lar-ious video I > want to share to a friend. Problem is, it is now 3 days later and I can't > remember anything about the mail it was contained in. Oddly enough, I remember > the music Amarok was playing at the time. Party Hard by Andrew WK. Good stuff. > Oh yeah, and there was that funny youtube video sometime around then I found > in irc. My aunt would love that... > > *ahem* > > I open up gnome-activity-journal (currently the only interface to view the > history; others are planned), search for something related like the music, the > youtube video, the irc chat, etc, and *bam* there is that media file. It is > listed next to all the other stuff I was doing at the same time. > > * How does this fit into Phonon? > > Anything played by Phonon now shows up in zeitgeist. Provided that they follow > our documentation and set the correct QObject property. If that wasn't needed, > then Zeitgeist would get spammed with everything from KNotify. > > * Why should k-c-d care? > > For two reasons, really: > > 1) It is a new *optional* build-time dependency. If Phonon is compiled with > QZeitgeist, but zeitgeist isn't installed, stuff still works. Once zeitgeist > is > installed, the dbus interfaces work their magic. > > 2) The zeitgeist developers (and even the Phonon devs) would absolutely *love* > to see more KDE apps use Zeitgeist. Its pretty cool. > > > -- > Trever Fischer (tdfischer) > Fedora Ambassador, KDE Hacker > http://wm161.net > GPG: C40F2998 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net >
What is the advantage of zeitgeist over nepomuk? -Todd
