Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2012 09:13:50 Peter Maffter wrote:
There are dependencies in my case libqzeitgeist0 -> libphonon4 -> amarok,digikam, dolphin and a multitude of other dependencies although the Zeitgeist Engine is not installed in my case.
So if I use amarok, digikam and many others I have to use libqzeitgeist0 ?
We're reviewing this optional dependency, see opensuse-kde@. I don't think it's worth having, myself.
https://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist/UseCases "Here follows a list of user interactions that User Interfaces, using Zeitgeist and other software projects (Tracker, Teamgeist, etc) could provide." 1. John Hacker can't remember what he worked on the previous day. He opens the Journal and looks at the files in the Development section, to find out he didn't work at all because it was Sunday and he was tired. John needs to see a doctor if he can't remember facts like these. He may have vascular dementia if he's lucky (it's less aggressive than Alzheimers). But the use case is equally well answered by: (a) John opens his laptop and the resumed session shows him exactly where he stopped work. (b) John switches to his work desktop to see what he was working on (c) John starts his IDE and looks at the mostly recently edited file (or uses the uparrow in the shell, whatever floats your boat) 2. Sara is writing a book and has some files she uses all the time (the office file she's editing, a couple important PDFs with information about the city the book is based in, etc). Thanks to Zeitgeist she can easily find those most used files and open them with a click. (a) Sara uses the recently accessed documents list of those applications. (b) Sara uses Zotero in her browser 3. Tim and Joe are doing research on dinosaurs for a school project. They both set their browser activities to shared and always know what pages the other one is looking at. Using IM they can easily talk about them without having to exchange links. *So zeitgeist is local and user-private is it? Apparently it has options that could be exploited by browser script malware to break both those restrictions.* (a) Tim and Joe use Zotero. 4. Leonor downloaded a file to her desktop. Now she needs some additional information from the website she downloaded it from, but she forgot where that was. She can find the URL using Tracker, but unfortunately the website doesn't have the information she needed anymore. She then looks at the Journal to find out what day she downloaded it, and can easily look up the previous version of the website in the Internet Archive. (a) Leonor uses Zotero (IIRC) 5. Mark starts a conversation with one of his clients. He is surprised to find a collection of resources (files, websites, contacts, etc.) related to the job, and uses it to quickly find information his client asks him for. I don't understand exactly what's meant by this one. But it sounds like a number of already-existing business applications. 6. Prof. Togepi is doing a research on computer usage patterns. He uses Zeitgeist to easily collect data from his test persons. **again, any pretence of local, user-private data goes out the window** Zeitgeist increases the target surface for attacks. 7. Daniel was at a conference a week ago and wants to remember what computer resources (files, websites, contacts, etc.) he used there. He opens the Journal, sets up a location filter and thanks to geolocation data gets a list of everything he wants. Sounds good. I'll buy this one. 8. Evan's boss wants monthly reports of what he has been doing. Writing achievements to a notebook each time they are completed is more worry than doing everything at once when the report is due. Now that he has the Journal he can do this much more easily. (a) find . -mtime -30 9. Mundungus is tired of working and decides he'll finish what he's working on next Monday. He opens the Journal and creates an "activity group" in the area for Monday and uses the "Save currently open resources" option to place everything he's currently using there; he also drags some additional resources (files, websites, contacts, etc.) he used earlier this day into the group box. Once that's done, he can close everything he's doing and focus on watching his favorite lolcat pictures, without worrying about not finding his resources again. Nice idea. Sounds simpler than what I do, which is drop everything into a private wiki. But it also doesn't work for me since I have multiple independent tasks open most of the time, so I don't want to drop all open documents in a single "activity group". I want to drop just those documents that are related to that activity. I guess the zeitgeist folks are single-tasking males :) 10. Bonnie Ughunter wants to document every Ubuntu bug she touched each day on her blog. In stead of doing it manually each time throughout the day, she sets up Zeitgeist to tag each web history item beginning with "bugs.launchpad.net" as "bugs", so she can easily copy them to her blog at the end of the day. There's gotta be a Firefox addin that does this, hasn't there? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org