January 29, 2010, 9:46 am
With Codethink sponsoring the prize for the upcoming to be announced competition for the coolest app using Tracker and RDF, I took the liberty to sum up the “fuss” around Tracker in 2 blog posts.
- Part I: User Stories and Problems of the current desktop.
- Part II: Tracker To The Rescue and Providing New User Experience
So here we go with Part I:
User stories:
- Tony is making some changes to a document. To clarify some issues, he wants to refer back to the email threads or IM conversations he’s had about that document.
- Jenna uploaded her vacation pictures from Brazil to her desktop. She would like to tag people in the picture with contacts in her address book. Later when she uploads the pictures to Flickr she expects to have the tags available there too.
- John has to work on his Michael Jackson research. Since he worked using webapps such as “Google docs” and some local data, he needs to be able to globally search for all his data on the web and locally.
- Rob is trying to land a contract with ACME Inc. he wants to get a list of all of his contacts who have a relationship to ACME Inc.
- Tony met a hot girl at a house party. He wants to search which of his freinds know her.
- April is working on a project. She wants to make a ‘folder’ containing all the research materials she’s using on the project. Her research materials include webpages, downloaded files, e-books, emails and IMs.
Problem:
- Current information architectures store data in special, independent file formats. For example, e-mail messages in e-mail files (or an e-mail database), contact data in contact files, appointments to calendar files.
- File formats differ between different applications and services, making an interpretation or even a combination of the data only possible via special software. In many cases, it is required to put use information from different sources together such an address book and a calendar.
- The current desktop has no logic to understand its data, what they are about, who they are from or how they are related to other documents.
- Current devices need to integrate with multiple online services, and there is no standard for doing this.
- Data stored online is just as important local data, however there is no standard for handling both data sources simultaneously.
With Codethink sponsoring the prize for the upcoming to be announced competition for the coolest app using Tracker and RDF, I took the liberty to sum up the "fuss" around Tracker in 2 blog posts.
Part I: User Stories and Problems of the current desktop.
Part II: Tracker To The Rescue and Providing New User Experience
So here we go with Part I:
User stories:
Tony is making some changes to a document. To clarify some issues, he wants to refer back to the email threads or IM conversations he's had about that document.
Jenna uploaded her vacation pictures from Brazil to her desktop. She would like to tag people in the picture with contacts in her address book. Later when she uploads the pictures to Flickr she expects to have the tags available there too.
John has to work on his Michael Jackson research. Since he worked using webapps such as "Google docs" and some local data, he needs to be able to globally search for all his data on the web and locally.
Rob is trying to land a contract with
January 26, 2010, 2:36 pm
January 20, 2010, 1:20 am
Thanks to the Zeitgeist Project Team we have 2 good news today
GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.2 – Luciana’s Tricycle
On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, after 1 year, 3 months, and 9 days since the first prototype, I am proud to announce the first development release of GNOME Activity Journal, codenamed “Luciana’s Tricycle”.
What is GNOME Activity Journal?
GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses the Zeitgeist Framework to display what you did, and introduces a better way to quickly find the things you were doing.
Where?
Downloads: http://edge.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/0.3/0.3.2/+download/gnome-activity-journal-0.3.2.tar.gz
About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com
Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeActivityJournal
Features:
- Pretty layout
- Pinning (marking) items
- Calendar slider (quickly move forwards/back in time)
- Preview tooltips
Experimental:
Features in progress for future releases:
- Display web browsing history in the journal
- Search and interaction
- Tags
- Detailed single-day view showing relationships between files
- Removing activities from the journal
Call for translators:
The project is still very low on translations. We’d really appreciate translation contributions so more people will be able to start using Zeitgeist.
Cheers
Seif Lotfy
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Zeitgeist 0.3.2 – Shadowy Rumble
On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zeitgeist 0.3.2. This is the third development release, leading up to what will be our stable 0.4 series. It introduces bug fixes and other performance optimizations to work with GNOME Activity Journal.
What is Zeitgeist?
Zeitgeist is an event-logging framework for desktop and mobile devices. Applications can push events into the log, and anyone can query the log via the rich query API. The logged events are semantically categorized and can come from any sort of activity, such as file usage, communications, and browsing history, etc. The Zeitgeist engine is a user-level service and does not have a GUI. It is intended to support dedicated journaling applications aand deep integration with other desktop components.
Where?
Downloads: https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist/+download
About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com
Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist
News since 0.3.1
- Added FindEvents, optimized shorthand for GetEvents(FindEventIds(…)).
- Fixed DeleteEvents and make it ignore bad requests.
- Fixed GetEvents not to raise an exception when called with an empty list.
- ZeitgeistClient.get_version() now returns a Python list.
- Some code refactoring, documentation changes and other little fixes.
Cheers,
Seif Lotfy
Thanks to the Zeitgeist Project Team we have 2 good news today
GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.2 - Luciana's Tricycle
On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, after 1 year, 3 months, and 9 days since the first prototype, I am proud to announce the first development release of GNOME Activity Journal, codenamed "Luciana's Tricycle".
What is GNOME Activity Journal?
GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses the Zeitgeist Framework to display what you did, and introduces a better way to quickly find the things you were doing.
Where?
Downloads: http://edge.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/0.3/0.3.2/+download/gnome-activity-journal-0.3.2.tar.gz
About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com
Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeActivityJournal
Features:
Pretty layout
Pinning (marking) items
Calendar slider (quickly move forwards/back in time)
Preview tooltips
Experimental:
Tracker-based search
Features in progress for future releases:
Displa
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We are trying to implement rounded corners with pygtk. The only solution way to do it is to use cairo afaik. Can some1 help us out with that. Code snippets would be awesome. We need it for the day headers. Also u might like to help us hack the calendar as seen on the mockups from the previous post. Cheers
We are trying to implement rounded corners with pygtk. The only solution way to do it is to use cairo afaik. Can some1 help us out with that. Code snippets would be awesome. We need it for the day headers. Also u might like to help us hack the calendar as seen on the mockups from the previous post. Cheers
January 5, 2010, 10:42 pm
