> 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 >
Nepomuk stores metadata. Zeitgeist stores your universal history. They're pretty different. It is possible for Zeitgeist to use Nepomuk as a storage backend, but Nepomuk can't immediately perform the same function as Zeitgeist. -- Trever Fischer (tdfischer) Fedora Ambassador, KDE Hacker http://wm161.net GPG: C40F2998 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net
