Comments on: Tracker – Part I (User stories and Problems of the current desktop)

By: Jeffrey Dustin

Jeffrey Dustin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:50:20 +0000

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By: Dylan McCall

Dylan McCall — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:45:39 +0000

Wow, I am REALLY happy you folks mentioned Dashboard. I had no idea about that project, and I’ve been dreaming of that exact functionality for ages now. Please, keep us posted on your revival efforts, Seif; I would love to at least follow this one closely. (If not help in some way).

By: Rodney Dawes

Rodney Dawes — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:47:25 +0000

The list of problems sounds like the problem space that Central Services (http://launchpad.net/central-services) is meant to solve.

By: Seif Lotfy

Seif Lotfy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:55:51 +0000

Dear Ivan,
Sorry for letting you down by forgetting your favorite use-case.
Will you ever forgive me?
Seif

By: iFrade

iFrade — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:23:52 +0000

You forgot my favorite use-case:

Joe receives an IM message asking “Have you review the document i sent you by email yesterday?”. Joe can answer quickly “yes” because he has access to a list of documents sent/receive to/from that contact sorted by date.

By: Seif Lotfy

Seif Lotfy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:33 +0000

@Stu: I will be reviving dashboard soon again. We have 2 technologies to make it possible.

1) Tracker: knowing how ur data is linked over metadata
(Tracker knows what your data is about)

2) Zeitgeist: knowing how ur data is used together
(Zeitgeist knows how you use ur data)

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:19:32 +0000

Lol, I hope not…:

Rereading the user stories, it’s not exactly the same as Dashboard.

Zeitgeist a newer version of the same vision (although with a different application).

It’s great we have some apps that are actually in a state to be used….
(after all Dashboard was never finished, due to Nat going and working on the underlying API (not finishing stuff being something I well understand))
- However not we have a great api in tracker, it would be nice to have something providing realtime info, in the way Dashboard promised us back in the way-back-when.

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:44:24 +0000

Did you just steal Codethink’s thunder?

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:29:42 +0000

Hey this sounds like a job for Nats old project dashboard… If we had an update for tracker we could really be onto something.