Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 2011-05-04 at 11:15, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: Apps which don't deal in files don't use GtkRecentManager, and *those* do require changes to log to Zeitgeist directly.  Web browsers, IM clients, etc.  The

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 10:20 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : the fact that everyone uses the MIME instead of one of the applications that registered a URI in the list is just that nobody has done it because it's easier to use the default handler for the MIME type; In fact, the Shell

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-05 Thread seiflo...@googlemail.com
On Thursday, May 5, 2011, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-05-04 at 11:15, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: Apps which don't deal in files don't use GtkRecentManager, and *those* do require changes to log

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-05 Thread Seif Lotfy
Well you can do that with Zeitgeist. Since we NEVER overwrite timestamps but rather add new we can always tell you which app you used to modify it recently/frequenty as well as which app you used to view the file recently/frequently. I mean we already offer the perfect infrastructure for these

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: Apps which don't deal in files don't use GtkRecentManager, and *those* do require changes to log to Zeitgeist directly.  Web browsers, IM clients, etc.  The Zeitgeist-dataproviders are exactly this kind of

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: Modifying the Gtk+ API would be awesome since it would allow us to use it as our main datahub. Yet I think Gtk+ will not be enough for the Journal. How will Gtk+ API allow frequency to be stored. To do that properly you need to

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for starting this Federico! I'm going to be rather selective in what I respond to... Federico Mena Quintero wrote: snip 1. We add a time-based view of the user's work - a journal, or history, or whatever you want to call it. In it we present files that you have used, conversations you

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread John Stowers
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:08 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Thanks for starting this Federico! I'm going to be rather selective in what I respond to... Federico Mena Quintero wrote: snip 1. We add a time-based view of the user's work - a journal, or history, or whatever you want to call it.

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 08:43 +1200, John Stowers a écrit : I strongly disagree and would very much like a journal view. I often need to find what I did on a specific day. For example, just this week I have performed the following * where did I put those files I was given during a meeting

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-04 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:08 +0100, Allan Day wrote: I'm not convinced that a journal view is beneficial. Why do I need to know which day or week I touched something? Most of the time, I just want to see what I handled recently (trip and slip) and what I've marked to come back to (the grip).

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.orgwrote: * Web pages. There are just too many of them in a single day! Gnome-activity-journal helped here by grouping them in an expandable item, N web pages, rather than showing all the crap you visited during a day. An

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-03 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: The infrastructure for the journal is of course the Zeitgeist engine and its data loggers. If we're modifying applications, the focus should be on adding API to GTK+ to accommodate whatever it is the design calls

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-03 Thread Korbé
Message original Objet : Re: Designing Finding and Reminding De : Korbé ko...@romandie.com À : Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me Cc : It's right. We need, of curse, a privacy respect methode. For exemple: - An entry in the Application Menu (in the top panel of GS) nammed

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-03 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 16:24 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: What about privacy? Maybe certain activities you don't want showing up.. for instance, if you're at a conference you don't want people behind you knowing what you were looking at. That kind of thing? Respecting private browsing

Re: Designing Finding and Reminding

2011-05-03 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 01:46 +0200, Korbé wrote: - An entry in the Application Menu (in the top panel of GS) nammed Forget thisvactivity or a button in the title bar of the window. When you choose it, the system don't record what you do. See my mail to Sri; I put in a similar example