Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

You know, when I first stumbled on zeitgeist running on my system a year or so ago, I didn't know what in the world it was doing, although it appeared to be logging... something. And I think I probably forced it to quit out of pure habit, before going online to figure out what it was actually doing. For the next few months I was pretty ambivilant about having it logging stuff on my system, and continued to kill it occasionally without really know what it was doing :p. And then I realized something - its actually quite useful. By keeping *ALL* logging in one place, it makes it much easier to keep track of, and also much easier to make sure that only those applications, etc which you want to be logged are actually logged. Of course, this is made immeasurabley easier w/ the awesome privacy settings in Ubuntu 12.04 (I'm honestly not sure - does such a thing exist in other distros?).

Anyhow, to the point at hand...  With GNOME-Clocks, having zeitgeist keep track of alarms, timers, etc makes sense since it allows users to close clocks when not in direct use, thereby saving resources while also keeping their alarms/timers/etc in place. The same I imagine is true for Epiphany/Web as well as many other programs. It also of course enables users to easily erase logs if/when they so choose, which is, IMHO just as important these days as keeping logs in the first place, if not more so.

Emily

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