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Gedit – Zeitgeist Dash revisited

Last February during the Zeitgeist hackfest my former GSoC student Michal Hruby convinced me to hack a dash for gedit (it was for gedit 2 sadly) that looked like this…

Today based on the mockups of my previous post i rewrote it to work with the latest gedit. Its 90% working now but I am …

Help us get some user statistics on gedit

I am working on a dashboard (start page) for gedit… My initial idea looks something like this

(the thumbnails will view some parts of the content of the file)

We are not sure that for gedit that  ”Frequent” is of interest for us, that maybe we can be happy just with Frequent… However before we take …

Zeitgeist history retrieval script and additional loggers

Zeitgeist starts logging from the time its installed. It can not dig into the past.

However we have a workaround to retrieve the history out of a folder and inform Zeitgeist about it. Simply download the following script

then use it like this:
python history.py /path/to/folder
/path/to/folder being the folder you want to pull history out of example: /home/seif/Documents

also for …

Working on some visuals for the GNOME Shell Zeitgeist extensions

Now that functionally thing are looking more stable with the extensions, I took some time to improve the visuals based on feedback by the one and only Hylke Bons…

This iteration was about making the extensions look like the rest of GNOME Shell… The guideline here was the “search view”, which reduces clutter. Also the …

GNOME Shell with a little Zeitgeist (Extension update)

So I finally managed to finish all Zeitgeist extensions I wanted for GNOME Shell…
Journal
The first extensions adds the “Journal” overview which allows you to navigate through your Recently Used stuff categorized by type of files (documents/videos/music/other/…) as well as type of interaction (recent/frequent/new). This is something Akshay Gupta, Federico Mena and me have been …

Zeitgeist extensions for GNOME Shell (update)

I managed to get around to extend my extensions and fix some minor issues… The extensions now can “search”. Not only does it allow you to search your files better and categorize them. It also overwrites the standard search of shell to sort you applications by “most launched” (thanks to jimmac’s hint). Now when i search …

Zeitgeist extensions for GNOME Shell

I started working on getting the GNOME Shell – Zeitgeist work by Federico’s GSoC student Akshay Gupta (kitallis) more stable and visually appealing. I am not a designer but I think this is not that bad… I hope I can get Hylke or Garrett to look at it with me during the week.

Currently its an …

Zeitgeist User Survey 2011 Fall

Our very own Manish Sinha prepared a user survey that would help us refocus our development and deployment. If you have the time please fill it out. Here is the original post from him.
Hi everyone,

The Zeitgeist project has created a survey to understand and prioritize user expectations. The survey can be found here

Please spread the word. …

Globaleaks: prototype and demo for all

My last post about GlobaLeaks was more or less an introduction to what it is and it’s not.

As we know in the open-source world “Code Talks”. So with this in mind, the weekend following my last post we had our first hackfest/sprint near Florence. I was sponsored to go and meet some of …

Hello GlobaLeaks

While my opinion might be debatable, I think whistleblowing can help countries all over the world keep an eye out and judge the private companies and government entities that run countries. Also, the whisleblowing process (while protecting the anonymity of the whistleblower) needs to be transparent.

Up untill now there was no open-source platform to …