Comment 68 for bug 646724

ouch.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Pablo Almeida
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> 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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>> duplicate bug report (884594).
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724
>>
>> 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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>
>
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> Pablo Almeida
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724
>
> 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.)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/646724/+subscriptions