Zeitgeist is out!
World, the first Zeitgeist release is out! From the release announcement (slightly modified):
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With great joy and excitement, the Zeitgeist Team is proud to announce Zeitgeist 0.2 codename: okidoki), the first public release of the ultimate service for event logging (yes, there was no 0.1 announcement, we are too cool for that).
Zeitgeist is an “Event Logging Framework” that provides cross application awareness of the desktop’s activities.
You worked on a file, but you cannot remember where you saved it? You visited a web page about basketball three days ago, but you cannot find the URL in your browser’s history? No problem, this is where Zeitgeist enters the scene. It knows a lot about your activities and has a feature rich D-Bus API which allows GUI applications like gnome-zeitgeist, zeitgeistfs and others to present you your activities in a readable way.
Highlights of the 0.2 release:
* SQLite backend for central information storage.
* D-Bus API with support for storing and retrieving the data (with lots of filtering options!).
* Support for logging items and events from GtkRecentManager,
Firefox, Tomboy, Evolution and Twitter. Plus plugins for Epiphany and Bazaar!
All this has been possible thanks to (in alphabetical order):
Markus Korn, Mikkel Kamstrup, Natan Yellin, Seif Lotfy and Siegfried-Angel Gevatter!
Installing Zeitgeist
To install Zeitgeist just download the tarball, extract it, and then run:
$ make
# make install
If you are using Ubuntu it’s recommended that you install the packages from our PPA. Finally, you can start the daemon, like this:
$ zeitgeist-daemon
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But, but…where are the screenshots ?
@egan: This is only the engine (daemon and loggers), the GUI (which is now called “GNOME Activity Journal” and is on https://launchpad.net/gnome-zeitgeist -instead of https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist which is the engine-) isn’t out yet.
Congrats. What about providing packages for other distros too?
If this is intended for GNOME, why is it not developed on GNOME infrastructure?
Also… is this still using python as gnome-zeitgeist was?
@Andre Klapper: Thanks. I’ll leave that tasks to the packagers of those distributions; I’m doing Debian and Ubuntu myself because I’m an Ubuntu Developer and a contributor to Debian (in the New Maintainer process) :).
@Tom: It’s intended for freedesktop.org. As for the infrastructure, we choose the one which best suits our needs, and that’s Launchpad. And yes, it’s Python.
just installed zeitgeist-core;
Couldn’t determine how to read the loged events.
Gnome-zeitgeist seems not to be released yet.
Any other possibilities to use zeitgeist’s functions?
@ghost: You can do a D-Bus API call manually to ask for a set of events, but I doubt this is what you want ;). Now, seriously, you can try gnome-zeitgeist from the branch (bzr get lp:gnome-zeitgeist; cd gnome-zeitgeist; ./zeitgeist-journal), but expect it to have bugs.
Gentoo Ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277993
Someone should add to the README that zeitgeist depends on storm
@Mikel: Thanks, updated the README. In case those python_* calls are anything like Debian’s pysupport, you may want to know that most .py files are installed into /usr/share/zeitgeist/.
I’ve struggled with some dependencies like python-numpy and python-gnome2-desktop, but gnome-zeitgeist is working from bzr right now. Of course there is a huge way in front of gnome-zeitgesit but it is quite good right now.
Congras :) (also zeitgesit itself)
@Heartsmagic: Great. You can get the latest version of the GUI from here: git://gitorious.org/gnome-activity-journal/gnome-activity-journal.git
@RainCT, thank you. I tried the lates version and confirm that it is working :) But, isn’t it a bit plain :) Is this the new style of the GUI? I am asking since, i see just one window and the dates.
@Heartsmagic: Well, it isn’t finished yet, but the new version is going to be a bit simpler than previous versions (at least for the first release, once the basics are working good we’ll add more stuff again).