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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

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 …

Hello Planet KDE

Hello KDE,
With this awesome week in Randa 2011 and being a KDE GSoC mentor to Mr. Trever Fischer. I will be posting about the process of integrating Zeitgeist into KDE and the work with Nepomuk.
I will be posting more stuff soon.
Cheers
Seif

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 work towards GNOME 3.2

So with an awesome GNOME 3.0 out I already had some stuff prepared for 3.2 that can show off some of the power and awesomeness Zeitgeist could provide for GNOME 3.2

The designs are random till now and we (Federico, Siegfried and me) are waiting for directions. Until then we are doing what we think …

Quick update from the World of Zeitgeist

So the Zeitgeist team is now preparing 2 releases at the same time. Both releases 0.7.1 and 0.8 are being managed by Siegfried while the rest is preparing for the 0.9 iteration. Federico is doing a very good job with Zeitgeist integration with GNOME Shell and delegating some minor tasks my way. I don’t think …

A very feminine desktop

Due to  some bad experience with viruses on her Laptop running Windows 7, my girlfriend decided to give Ubuntu another try. She is used to it since that is what I have running on my machine, but she never really liked the themes and the looks. So after installing Ubuntu on her machine and …

Zeitgeist proceedings for GNOME 3.0, Unity and KDE

Currently the Zeitgeist team is back from a short hiatus after the successful hackfest, leading to a release of Zeitgeist and all the belonging modules as part of the 0.8 cycle on the 15th of March.

Other than being a technically successful cycle, the 0.8 for me personally was a successful in deployment and communication level:

Lots of GNOME upstream integration has been …

Zeitgeist Project to go for stable release cycles

I think the title says it all. With the Zeitgeist deployment progressing, we see more soft & hard – dependencies on the Zeitgeist modules. Currently we plan 2 releases ahead based on the amount of bugs and blueprints we have open.

The core modules of Zeitgeist now consist of:

Zeitgeist Engine (the core that accepts events …

Zeitgeist Hackfest Day 1 – 3

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 …