Zeitgeist tags in GNOME Shell

This screencast shows how tags from Zeitgeist are integrated in GNOME Shell (in my own branch, the Zeitgeist stuff hasn't landed in trunk yet).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

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

[sadamclemson]

You had the .js file tagged with source, will it be possible to apply a tag to all files in a directory or of a certain file type?

[RainCT]

In fact, this is already possible if you know Python or some other programming language with D-Bus bindings, and in the future there will also be a command to do such stuff from the command line or from scripts.

As to a GUI way of doing stuff like this, I can't say what our tools will look like but it's certainly possible that we provide such an option (or else, anyone can easily create a GUI for this himself and put it on the web).

[RainCT]

The "source" tag is by the way, an automatic tag based upon the file path, which was set because that file is in ~/gnome-shell/source/ (so it has a "gnome-shell" and a "source" tag).

Such tags will be hidden from GNOME Shell as soon as Zeitgeist 0.3 is out, but I may make it so that you can still use them in the search.

[wiflye81]

Great work and with a better tag integration (firefox, nautilus), it can be really powerful.

[RainCT]

Yeah, actually we plan to take Firefox's tags, this will probably happen with Zeitgeist 0.3, when we'll split up tags into UserTags (manually set by the user) and AutoTags (set by algorithmic means, such as the directory the file is in etc., and hidden from most GUIs).

[RainCT]

Tags can have spaces in them, by the way, the only character which isn't allowed is a comma (,).

[sadamclemson]

That would be handy for those of us with a lot of files already in a hierarchical tree and little time to go back and tag.