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As you all know Zeitgeist has been trying to make rapid strides in the linux desktop and the Zeitgeist team is working really hard to enhance and improve the desktop experience and integration in Ubuntu, KDE and GNOME.

To get more feedback from our fellow users and updating our beloved readers about all the …

Zeitgeist on its way into KDE

You can read about it here…

The basic structure of events as understood by both projects Nepomuk and Zeitgeist are different.

Nepomuk looks at events as an “activity on a subject” with a duration with a start and end. Zeitgeist on the other hand looks as an event as an entitiy in time. So Open and …

Zeitgeist’s new rockstars

Ladies and gentlemen meet the 2 new rising Zeitgeist rockstars:

Trever Fischer: who works mainly on Zeitgeist KDE integration. He already started patching for Phonon and Amarok. He is also my GSoC student at KDE who will be working on a Zeitgeist Journal widget for Plasma which requires integration with Nepomuk. I will be meeting …

Zeitgeist’s journey in the land of KDE

First I have to say until now it has been amazing. Why you may ask?

libQZeitgeist moved to KDE repositories thanks to my SoC student and already well established rockstar “Trever Fischer”
Consensus around the integration of Zeitgeist in KDE from the both sides of Nepomuk and Zeitgeist devs
The awesome Nepomuk team

So what are our plans …

GNOME Shell Experiments

So now that GNOME 3 is out, and I am excited about the future progress of the “Finding and Reminding” feature. My design philosophy is that design should be an evolutionary process with multiple prototypes tested for effectiveness along the way, not a “design everything upfront” process.

Along with Federico Mena and Siegfried Gevatter, and …

The crazy Zeitgeist week…

I think this week has been a very chaotic but productive week on the Zeitgeist front…

First of all Congrats to the Ubuntu team for releasing natty (the best Ubuntu release to date). Just installed it on my netbook and its badass (Sorry folks I use Fedora on my work computer now). We will be …

A snippet of the GNOME Zeitgeist Todo list

Since Alex Gabriel the maintainer of Mayanna is on vacation we got stuck with some issues! So while he is gone we started working on the old GNOME Zeitgeist again. The development is great. Me more or less absent because of work, Mr RainCT joined the developers during the week and almost finished the …

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GNOME-Zeitgeist meets Mayanna THE ULTIMATE FAQ

Perhaps as a result the recent news about GNOME 3.0 mentioning GNOME-Zeitgeist (Yay!). A lot of people have been visiting our IRC channel lately asking about the project. In the chats that evolved we told them about our merging with the Mayanna project which led to some questions regarding Mayanna. Since many people have …

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Another lame approach on Clutter

OK i think this is it for the next 3 days! HEere is my latest approach! Needs more love but i think it does a good job :)
Here is the new approach

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Clutter UI gets minor update

I just tried to understand more about clutter by improving my first clutter prototype. Now I can scroll left and right! Before I could only move in one direction! Sometimes it jumps though but ends up on the right item. Will check it out later.

I am trying to find some middle ground between this …

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