Comments on: GNOME Zeitgeist almost there

By: Beatris Carnegia

Beatris Carnegia — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:18:49 +0000

This site seems to recieve a great deal of visitors. How do you get traffic to it? It gives a nice unique spin on things. I guess having something useful or substantial to say is the most important factor.

By: Interfaz de GNOME Zeitgeist | La vida Linux

Interfaz de GNOME Zeitgeist | La vida Linux — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:47:26 +0000

[...] Como se puede apreciar todavía es muy básica, debido a que fue escrita en tan sólo 4 días, según comenta el autor. Aún así ya muestra la idea general para adentrarse a los registros [...]

By: twilightomni

twilightomni — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:33:03 +0000

Could I ask what the GTK theme is in this shot, by the way? My first thought was Dust, but I can’t find a Dust that has dark-gray widgets (only solid black).

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:56:10 +0000

Take a look at the Google Docs interface for a different approach to document handling based on time. Google Docs treats files like Outlook treats emails: in a vertical list but with separators for “Today”, “Yesterday”, etc. Seems much more natural to me…

By: twilightomni

twilightomni — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:45:21 +0000

Looks nice, but what is the “Lastest” version? I think translations goofed up a bit.

By: Seif Lotfy

Seif Lotfy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:31:39 +0000

I am reworking the UI at the moment but again please understadn it is just some kind of diary for your activties. @El Ninja I will be writing a little blog post AGAIN about the diffrence between Zeitgeist(Event Aggregation Framework), GNOME Zeitgeist(A Journal View for your activites), Tracker and Nepomuk! @Cally My Focus was currently on a Model View controller. And although we had some kind of get related items option we took that out for the reason of focusing on the first concept which was a journal view. (No Recently used does not do the trick)! In our mockups we had the timeslider thingie. And I did not said its there I said its almsot there! right no I am working on a some assistive dynamic file browsing part of the journal!

By: Cally

Cally — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:12:20 +0000

This is really pretty poor UI design, I’m afraid, not least for the reasons already stated.

Was really hoping for something that would help me *visualise* the stuff I’d been working on and its inter-relationships, not just some static, chronological, truncated-tree-ridden thing.

As a very simple example, time range selection could be done via a timeline with two sliders on it (one for start date, one for end date), with the single (not multi-column) view updating as the user moves the sliders.

By: David

David — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:54:43 +0000

It occurs to me that a lot of the difficulties of displaying all that information efficiently would be ameliorated by a zoomable interface—the type of interface that excels at displaying and manipulating calendar-like data (see, e.g., SocialHelix). Zooming in would show more narrow ranges of time and then more specific types of data, also revealing more detail and metadata. Zooming out would slowly hide more and more detail, revising the display to be more general and appropriate for the time range being shown.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:44:54 +0000

Agreed with others that the week view (and presumably month view) are too compressed to be useful – the first two or three characters of a filename don’t really offer any useful information. And even the three-day view will have the same problem, if you have files with longer names (as your screenshot shows).

Might I suggest you consider using less precise date ranges for some of these things? If I’m looking for something I did last week, then it would be more useful to me to be able to look it up under “last week”, rather than individually looking in “August 10th” through “August 16th”

By: dael99

dael99 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:27:43 +0000

Well, it’s getting better and better… BUT

i really think that a event centric database and (…) should be the centric place of the desktop…

I really like this concep, and I’ve starting to study and design how we could have our desktops using Zeitgeist as a centric place.

Mayanna of course is a good aproach, but there’s something better we could do.

I have some ideas and mockus, so if yopu want to hear it… maybe something could get born.

I’m a developer, and I’m interesting on this… not really to work on the core, but to work on a new desktop experience (yep), with this as the core. Something like Mayanna, but wider.