I've just pushed a fix for zeitgeist-datahub (so that it'll find OpenOffice.org files) to lp:zeitgeist. I think Didier Roche wanted to get an updated Zeitgeist package into Maverick; I'll e-mail him about including this change.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- revision rai...@ubuntu.com-20100925104208-8eerljaq7ly6rhw0 (1608) ... Branch: zeitgeist-trunk recent.py: add workaround for OpenOffice.org files Backport the workaround used in the Vala datahub, which special-cases OpenOffice.org documents so that we can identify their .desktop file by looking at the mime-type in addition to the executable name. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- not all files show up in files-place https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Zeitgeist Framework Team, which is subscribed to Zeitgeist Data-Sources. Status in Unity: Triaged Status in Unity Files Place: Triaged Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources: In Progress Bug description: The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to files/documents etc. is really great. However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything. E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist. I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem. For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the Unity files-place interface. To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware applications. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist Post to : zeitgeist@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp