Integrating Zeitgeist into GNOME Shell

A demo of the Zeitgeist-powered features I've added to GNOME Shell so far.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• zeitgeist
• gnome
• gnome3
• gnome-shell
• linux
• ubuntu
• gsoc
• gsoc2009

[daymeion24]

this is really cool kde4 will have a run for its money :) great job five stars for me cheers

[chronius9]

This demonstration is pretty old: Gnome shell works now a little bit diferrent (has left side Doc, different windows tiling and you can see only one workspace. Other news Ubuntu would not use G shell as main shell. Instead custom Unity interface took place.

[wqtpuu]

@nnutter In Gnome Shell you find more things: folders, running programs/windows, launcher, desktops on one instead of multiple places and as a sideeffect the desktop is less cluttered when the activities-view is not active.

I think it's different but not harder to use than the current gnome. You have to get used to it. Also it breaks compatibility with for example compiz but it's extensible with javascript and css. live . gnome . org / GnomeShell / Design / Principles

[alejandronova]

That's great news. That means that GNOME metainformation will be compatible with KDE. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[RainCT]

However, what we do is different from NEPOMUK in that what Zeitgeist tracks is not files, but *events*, so you can get information like: during Christmas I opened that file 20 times with a set of different programs, a particular day I added a couple tags to it and another day I send it to a friend; this information is then complemented with the data stored in Tracker/Soprano.

[RainCT]

In Zeitgeist 0.3 we are now using the NEPOMUK ontology where applicable and stuff like tags are entirely left for Tracker/Soprano.

[alejandronova]

I was thinking the same thing. Why don't they simply reuse NEPOMUK libraries, or at least make Zeitgeist and NEPOMUK compatible? If you have watched the KDE4 demos recently, you'll be noting that everything shown here is made with two lines of SPARQL queries in KDE 4.4.

[Thesupermadman]

This is kinda like Nepomuk, then...

[mmxgn]

Awesomeness! "Thank you Siegfrieg!"

[nnutter]

I still don't "get" Gnome Shell.