I am writing a little one time process then crawl your folders and emits an open event to zeitgeist... :) Thanks for the idea
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Christoph Buchner < 646...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Just to be clear, I don't want to replace ZG, I didn't even intend to > pull tracker into this (it was just meant as a technology reference, I > shouldn't have mentioned it at all maybe). I'm just looking for a > feasible solution to enable users to be able to find all files they > would most probably search for, using unity. Seeing that this feature is > powered by ZG, I see 3 alternatives: > > a) manually open all files, or wait until user has interacted with all > files without her being able to use unity search for said interaction in > the meantime (this is the status now, and I think we all agree it's not > very enticing). > > b) Add an option to ZG to point to some directory (e.g. stuff in the users' > extra data partition), whose contents will then be indexed _once_ by ZG. > (Comment #29) This is basically an automated version of a), something like a > "fast-forward" button. > The state of the index should then be not much worse than after normal > usage for a long time, assuming the user will stumble over most of the files > in said directory during normal usage, over time. Wildcard exceptions could > be added to minimize cruft being added to the db (e.g. *~ files) > Is this a workable idea? If not, why? Are there negative performance > impacts on ZG and/or unity-place-files I don't see? > Pro: tracker or similar technology does not have to be involved. > > c) Write a script which, when pointed to a directory, accesses all the > files sequentially, thus adding them to the ZG index as desired by the > user. (comment #31) Admittedly the most hackish workaround, and just > saves you the tedium of opening and closing files for a day or so, to be > able to find them with unity-place-files. > > To me at least, b) sounds reasonable. thoughts? alternatives? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to unity- > place-files. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724 > > Title: > not all files show up in files-place > > Status in Unity: > Triaged > Status in Unity Files Place: > Triaged > Status in Zeitgeist Framework: > Fix Released > Status in Zeitgeist Data-Providers: > Invalid > Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > > 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. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724 Title: not all files show up in files-place -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
