Seilo @ Geeky Ogre

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-17

Monday, November 17th, 2008 | OS | No Comments

• too much things to do #
• just modified alot of the Timeline code and extended the UI! Now thinking of adding sqlite support to store history #
• The Journal is to be named Gnome Zeitgeist! #
• I need a sqlite database to support a frequently used feature #
• Crap too much crap for uni! #
• Robotics Workshop is boring! Am I losing interest? #
• Amazing! During the robotics workshop I am still working on the Journal I am obsessed! Frequently used is now up and running #
• I will be rewriting the timeline using mono (C#/Boo)! Heads up #

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Gnome Jounrnal Update #7

Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Gnome, OS, Uncategorized | No Comments

Natan Yellin and I have been organizing a lot in the code. Natan stumbled up on SpiffGtkWidgets and managed to integrate it into the code. Although the display is amazing its pretty slow. Thus Natan and I decided to hack on it and upload our patches :).

A couple of new features will be added and/or are under development, most importantly:

1. Search! We need to be able to search
2. Bookmarking! I took out the bookmarking code to re-implement it at some point.
3. Tags! Tagging items would be really a cool feature however we need a database for it
4. Two new Iconviews Placeholders. “Frequently Used” and “Bookmarked”. I think the names say it all!
5. We are considering of storing History in an sqlight database! We need the communities opinion on it
6. Option of choosing a backend engine such as Tracker

Another very important thing is the naming of the Project! right now alot of the code is still related to mayanna-legacy! However since I will be also working on the new mayanna version I think renaming the classes and projects would be a good choice since alot of the original code has been changed and reduced. My suggestions would be:

• Gnome Zeitgeist (The options of bookmarking and frequently used should encourage this name)
• Gnome Reflaction (the a is on purpose ) .. à la reflection in/for action
• Gnome Did (sounds too much like Gnome Do though)
• Gnome Timeline
• Gnome Useline

More to come! Need to take a Nap

Tags: gnome, journal, linux, mayanna, timeline

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-13

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | OS | No Comments

• Got the Data into the SpiffGtkWidgets calendar! #
• too much things to do #
• just modified alot of the Timeline code and extended the UI! Now thinking of adding sqlite support to store history #
• The Journal is to be named Gnome Zeitgeist! #
• I need a sqlite database to support a frequently used feature #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-12

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | OS | No Comments

• Wohoo! I am officially a gnome foundation member! Wohoo #
• MAtLab is powerful and annyoing! Just like most of the World leaders #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-11

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | OS | No Comments

• managed to get firefox history working in the timeline #
• @orph since the prototype i am writing is built up on pieces of ur code and some of mine I need a copyright document from you! contact me #
• @migueldeicaza I can’t find federico anywhere! do you have any clue about his whereabouts? #
• Damn I should be so lucky! #
• Work is fun but killing me! I should catch up on drinking coffee! #
• Writing rhythmbox plugin for the timeline should a kick ass feature! after that i will start on web dataproivders #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-11-10

Monday, November 10th, 2008 | OS | No Comments

• lost 0.5 kg today! a couple more to go! Wohooooooooooooo #
• setting up the Gnome Shell development environment is a piece of cake! thank you JHbuild #
• Attending a robotics meetign makes me miss my old team! I don’t regret the transfer to the new team, still 4 legged robots are cuter than 2 #
• Fixed the drag and drop issue of the timeline during the meeting! I am a bad student #
• please visit http://yuya.geekyogre.com
  thoughts of a geeky girl can be found there #

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Gnome Journal Update #6

Monday, November 10th, 2008 | Gnome, OS, Uncategorized | No Comments

I managed to get Firefox history at last. After some issues with SQLite locks, copying the places.sqlite and work on it was the solution. Still it takes too long to display them!The good thing about the code is that both UI and engine are seperated. Another cool thing is now automatically when one writes a new dataprovider it can autmatically be filtered. Next on the list is improving performance and memory consumption(although its waaaaaaaaay better than gimmie/mayanna).

Features:

1. Firefox now enabled
2. Cleaned up code
3. Enabled Drag and Drop

Issues:

1. Refreshing the view or loading lots of items takes too much time!
2. Bookmarking is still disabled

I will upload the changes as soon as I turn on my laptop!

*Update its all up on launchpad or just go bzr branch lp:gnome-doc-centric-playground

Tags: gnome, journal, linux, mayanna, ogrenizer, timeline

Twitter Updates for 2008-11-09

Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | OS | No Comments

• Nice to see other Gnome hackers into Lindy
  http://davyd.livejournal.com/264068.html
  cheers Dave #
• @orph I fixed most of the memory leaks i was considering creating a voice interface to operate and interact with the computer via gimmie #
• link to self http://tinyurl.com/6ygmgm #

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Gnome Journal Update #5

Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Gnome, OS, Uncategorized | No Comments

I assume this is update 5 thus #5

So the filters are working pretty well! All functional and every dataprovider will be automatically included into the filters list. I still have to work on the refreshing view thingie but all in all pretty stable. The issue concerning me is that when to much data is provided e.g. Firefox history (couple of thousand on my PC) it could take too long to create and view the items! The Firefox Dataprovider is in the code, however will not be displayed, since inserting over 3000 items makes the whole thing take too long to start up and filter out! Plus somehow Firefox blocks usage of the sqlite database while running.

Features:

1. Filter works perfectly
2. Firefox DataProvider included into code but disabled

Issues:

1. Refreshing the view or loading lots of items takes too much time!
2. Bookmarking is still disabled

As for hacking updates Natan Yellin set up a bzr branch on launchpad. Have a look here. To copy this branch open a terminal and go: bzr branch lp:gnome-doc-centric-playground

If someone can reach Federico please tell him to contact me

Tags: gnome, journal, linux, mayanna, ogrenizer, timeline

Implementing a Gnome Journal/Timeline Filter

Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Gnome, OS, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

As the topic says, I am working on a filter to filter in/out mimetypes into the timeline! As for now I took out Pidgin an bookmarking so i could improve the speed and memory consumption! They will be built back in soon.

I just noticed gnomejournal.org, thus I think the project needs a new name/codename… I think Gnome Timeline or “Gnome Zeitgeist”(GZG).

I could use some help with a Firefox plugin.. if some1 can send me a sample code of howto read in the firefox history using python i would be very thankful!

Tomorrow i will continue as for now I will sleep! The changes of today will be uploaded tomorrow since they are on my desktop and I am in bed!

Tags: gnome, journal, linux, mayanna, ogrenizer, timeline