Comment 67 for bug 646724

But does make it less likely to be fixed.

2012/2/13 AndreK <email address hidden>

> reducing the importance of the bug does not make it less annoying.
>
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> Title:
> not all files show up in files-place
>
> Status in Unity:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity 2D:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Lens:
> Triaged
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
> Invalid
> Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
> Invalid
> Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> 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.
>
> (See also bug 897393, about warning users that the search doesn't
> search all files.)
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