With D-Bus up and running we managed to write a quick plugin for epiphany that pushes visited websites with the timestamp to zeitgeist. This way we dont need to monitor the epiphany history file anymore! So here is the sample epiphany plugin code.
We know have two options to log:
- We monitor applications from within Zeitgeist and log the activities. (Pro: One has a central dataprovider manager to enable/disable logging. Con: Resources)
- We allow applications to send its data to Zeitgeist. (Pro: less work for the Zeitgeist team to write dataprovider loggers and less resource consumption from the Zeitgeist side. Con: no central dataprovider manager)
What do you think?
P.S: Try out zeitgeist from our bzr branch. If interested join the mailinglist (still pending) and file bugs.
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What happens when someone clicks the delete browser history button?
it does not delete form Zeitgeist
to delete from Zeitgeist one has to do it from Zeitgeist
That’s the issue I would also think about.
So you have an instant copy of your history. Not that great.
Can’t the Epiphany history file not just include timestamps, so you can easily search it on the fly?
@mikem
please explain more. timestamps are a core of zeitgeist i cant leave them out!
I’d say that (2) is probably better, because the application knows best when interesting things happen (which will reduce resource consumption, as you say). In addition, some applications might not (currently) expose all of their interesting data in a way that is easily monitored externally, and (2) would get around that.
There is no reason that (2) means you can’t have a central manager. You could have Zeitgeist-enabled applications check with the central manager whether they should be logging information when they start up, and use something like a dbus signal to notify the applications when their logging settings change at run time.
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