Sorry for taking so long to blog again. But things at the hackfest are very very tensed in a positive way. The momentum is high. The remote participation is amazing. We are getting so much done in such a short time. We are pretty short on sleep 
To sum up the highlights:
- gedit’s soft-dependency in progress an looking good
- GNOME Shell – Zeitgeist Search providers being reviewed and developed (thanks to magcius support)
- Zeitgeist is now storage aware (Mikkel will explain in his next blog post)
- Zeitgeist API now supports more Nepomuk Ontology
- Zeitgeist API supports new features
- Some libzeitgeist bugs got fixed
- Zeitgeist + Telepathy open issues all solved and under development.
- New gedit Dashboard plugin
- more stuff.. (REALLY)
So here is a picture of gedits new DashBoard… We will attempt to port this to other applications such as Totem and EOG
AGAIN THANKS TO OUT SPONSORS
Cheers
The grid plugin / dashboard looks cool. I wonder if you could do this in the general case for every application. You could get the desktop file and the list of open applications from the shell, then you could expose the grid UI on the backside of the window, like in the old video below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g#t=2m58s
Anyway, crazy idea.
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I think Zeitgeist is a useful project, but have some criticism of this implementation:
- Once gedit is already open, and you explicitly click the “New file” button, why would you want the dashboard to appear? If someone wanted to open a previous file, shouldn’t they click “open”? It’s adding the number of clicks it takes to accomplish a basic task, and the behaviour of opening the dashboard when clicking “New file” is unintuitive.
- Out of curiosity, why was Zeitgeist required to accomplish this? Gedit already had access to a list of the last used files.
@Stuart: Indeed the Recently Used group can be compued from the ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel, but the Other Frequently Used group is based on *popular* semi-recent items that are not in the Recently Used group.
Also. We want to add a Related Files group. With files that are related to the ones you already have open. Hence Zeitgeist
The “untitled document 1″ – tab is really strange combined with your dashboard.
Create new document, not “edit” sounds better
Seif,
we have an open bug in Evince for having a dashboard, more like the one in Chrome, that has some goodies missing in your gedit dashboard, like the hability of remove something from the dahsboard and prevent it from appearing again, etc. Anyway, We thought about implementing the Dashboard for evince using the GtkRecentManager, but maybe there is a way of having a Zeitgeist dashboard… I also wonder how to modify GtkRecentManager, so iwe can hook up Zeitgeist directly into that instead of every app.
Sorry, a general zeitgeist-Question:
Is there a possibility to turn off Zeitgeist for a certain time? Because sometimes I do things with my computer, that shouldn’t be seen by others.
Hey Jose,
We would love to work with you on a general Dashboard widget that can be used by other applications. This would rock for evince. However we are short on developers. Maybe you can join us on it. Do you mind joining our irc channel on freenode #zeitgeist ?
We can then plan how to get the dashboard for evince within this month…
Wrt the tab label, there is API in gedit to modify it. Should make things a bit nicer (http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/gedit/gedit-document.h#n213)
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The gEdit dashboard plugin looks awesome.
I’ve always thought it looked a bit odd when it opens up empty. This is most handy. Good work.
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Writing ‘click here to …’ is wrong in a UI. If you have to write ‘click here’, then it isn’t obviously a click target. Correct UI would be to make it obvious it is a button.