On 25/06/12 13:27, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2012 05:14:40 Carlos E. R. wrote:
This is a more reasonable explanation than what their own documentation on the sites say, thanks. However, the little I found says that it also keeps tracks of conversations - it is on the excerpt I copied on a previous post: I mentioned that. Chat programs keep logs. If you use kopete or pidgin and don't disable logging, everything you have ever said or anyone has ever said to you is stored in a text file in your home directory
+++����������������� Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users's activities and events (files opened, websites visites, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications. It is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns. �����������������++-
Privacy and security concerns come when data gets uploaded to other machines. That is not happening here. This is just another goofy idea by gnome developers about how they think people should work Well, it concentrates information that can be queried from a service that is running, and thus, perhaps breakable remotely. That is true for all other applications as well. Zeitgeist is a strictly local service which you can use for your own productivity. This is why it was developed by the gnome people
And I was not asked prior to installing it, I just happened to read the description and it raised a warning flag. That's my concern. It is suspicious. You were asked prior to installing it, which is how you found out that it was about to be installed. If you used zypper from the command line, the description isn't there that is true, but that is the price you pay for using a command line client. The name of the package is there and you are asked to confirm before installing anything.
Anders, you are not really serious in what you just wrote, are you? "You" go to install an app and you get a menu listing a zillion additional files which are also going to be installed otherwise the dependency requirements are not going to be met. Are you seriously suggesting that the onus is on everyone to read each and every entry and that list of zillion files and agree to install it? [.........] BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 and kernel 3.4.3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org