First the Release Announcement:
GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.3 – “Patrick Star meets Lady Gaga”
==============================================The GAJ & Zeitgeist team, are proud to announce the second development release of GNOME Activity Journal, codenamed “Patrick Star meets Lady Gaga”.
What is GNOME Activity Journal?
=========================GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses the ZeitgeistFramework to display what you did and introduces a better way of finding the things that you were doing quickly.
Where?
=====* Downloads: http://edge.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/0.3/0.3.3/+download/gnome-activity-journal-0.3.3.tar.gz
* About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com
* Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeActivityJournalWhat is done so far:
==============Since the last release we included some new features (but postponed others)
Alongside the “Pretty layout”, “Pinning of stuff, “Calendar scrubbing” and the experimental “Tracker Search” we are introducing:* “Detailed Day View” accessible over left clicking the day label.
* “Thumbnail View” accessible over right clicking the day label.
* Remove Items from the JournalAlso a lot of bugs have been fixed alongside caching and performance improvements.
What to expect with the next releases:
===========================* Improve “right-click” menu (Display related files).
* Add “right-click” menu to the new views.
* Search and interaction.
* Tags.
* Remove activities from the journal (permanently).
* Fixing all open bugs .—-
Cheers
Seif
Now for Screenshots of the new views (accessible by clicking the day label)
- Detailed View (Accessible over left click):
- Thumbnail View (Accessible over right click):
The next release will allow more interactions and make use of Zeitgeist’s “Most used With” and “A priori Sets”. Zeitgeist 0.3.3 will be out soon…
Rock!
whoohoo, awesome, rock!
Great!!! Just a small small suggestion: in the detailed day view, display the filename in bold, and not the file type. When working with lots of unrelated text files (e.g. many .tex files), the file type is not so useful to distinguish different activities. You can see it also in your screenshot: One sees you were working with “source code”, but has to read the light gray filenames to really know WHAT source code you were working on.
I have to disagree with you there zappete..
If someone is browsing like that it is likely because they cannot remember the name of the file they are looking for.
They are going through a thought process of when they worked on something, what type of file it was etc.
If they know exactly what they are looking for then it would be much quicker to use the search function.
In Detailed View, what do the coloured parts of the horizontal bars mean?
@cgable: the colored bars show you how long u used it
I still don’t get it. I thought the white bars show how long I used it. Or does Zeitgeist recognize during video playback if I pay attention to the screen or if I look somewhere else?
@cgable: The white part is just a design issue
it does not say anything
the colored part is what is important
But why do some lines end with a white part? Shouldn’t the last part always be a coloured part?
@cgable we want to make use of it later for the focus part
From what I was told when I was hacking the view @cgable the white bars signify the row so that you do not get confused by another row as your eyes move to the right. They also signify a clickable area which is why they sometimes exceed the playtime and are displayed till the end of the text. I am still on the fence about these, but I just do what I am told!
@Randal: Ah, now I see. If the bar would be shorter than the file name it is expanded to the length of the file name, otherwise the white parts are used to connect the coloured parts. But that’s plain confusing. People like me could mistake the white parts for the time the document was opened and the coloured parts for the periods of playback or typing/editing or window focus.
what gtk theme are you using?
Awesome software mate and Archer the tv show is kicks ass as well!
Great work!
Congrats for the whole team!
@cgable I understand completely and agree. I rewrote the entire widget last night after the release revision was chosen. I wanted to clean up the code by using a TreeView and Cellrenderers to do the drawing for 0.3.4. Trunk doesn’t have the slightly off colored bars now.
I would really like to style the bars in some way similar to the disk usage bars in Banshee but smaller. I just need a good mockup.
Hello,
Great job!
A another suggestion for this awesome software: It is possible to add, an access to folders for each file? By right clicking on a file, we can have a proposition to open his folder.
Many times we work by group of files, and if it’s possible to access to the file near to the file I had worked saturday, it’s can be cool.
Thanks
link is wrong dude, it says 0.3.2 everywhere.
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Bonus points for the Archer reference!
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