Comment 26 for bug 646724

I am on it already :)

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM, KarlRelton <
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> Wrt to comment #23, I remember over a year ago in blog-posts or wherever
> some communication between Seif of Zeitgeist fame and the Tracker people
> about integration/linking together. There was talk of one of them
> pushing events to the other.
>
> Certainly if Tracker pushed an event to Zeitgeist everytime it
> 'discovered' a new file, that would certainly help Zeitgeist to be aware
> of alot more of the user's filesystem. If the user is using Tracker,
> then resource-wise the user would be no worse off, since Tracker is
> already doing the crawling & monitoring anyway.
>
> However, of course Tracker itself is configured by the user to NOT crawl
> their whole filesystem, so for some users it is arguably still
> incomplete (though it would be good enough for my own uses).
>
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> 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.
>