Re: Gnome Activity Journal

[Frederik Nnaji <frederik nnaji gmail com>]

Hi Johannes, thanks for cleaning this up a bit..

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 19:25, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:

Hi!

This is nothing to be discussed here but instead on desktop-devel-list.
See the threads there in the archive. There are various good and
probably not so good reasons why in was not included. They are mostly
technical. You can of course bring it up again there if you have read
everything and still have questions. If you are a Foundation member
(e.g. a GNOME contributor of some sort) you can vote for Seif in the
board.

Note that zeitgeinst != gnome-activity-journal and gnome-shell != Gnome
3.0...

Regards,
Johannes

Am Donnerstag, den 10.06.2010, 16:27 +0000 schrieb Sean Dunwoody:

> Why on earth is the Gnome Activity Journal / Zeitgeist not being
> included in Gnome 3.0?:
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/i-know-im-in-no-position-to-criticise.html
>
> I've seen no reasonable explanation so far to exclude such excellent
> work from Gnome 3 that I really feel is inline with what Gnome 3 was
> aiming for.
>
> One comment from the article that I feel I'm agreeing with more and
> more:
> ". . . I think it is sad that Zeitgeist is not part of GNOME 3. And to
> be honest I think the the reasons behind it are not well thought
> through but again its not me who decides. Zeitgeist is NOT as file
> manager but rather an Activity Manager. And although Shell wants to
> integrate some of its functionalities its still just some...
> I think it has to do with a lot of politics... a reason why i am
> running for GNOME board it to ease the experience the Zeitgeist team
> had to go through for other amazing upstream projects like Docky,
> Elementary and GTG...
> Yes we dont integrate fully with the desktop but lets be honest we
> cant dump everything into shell. It just fucks up the modularity that
> Linux is all about...
> Like the aforementioned projects i think we are one of the last fully
> community based projects in GNOME. GNOME has become a battlefield of
> corporations and sooner or later if it does not improve it will come
> to a divergence... RH and Canonical are killing GNOME and its sad...
> RH should concentrate on doing services while Canonical should work on
> the UX... this is the only way GNOME will survive... "
>
> Furthermore does this mean the task Pooper idea is being completely
> dropped? It seemed to me that it integrated with Zeitgeist:
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/task-pooper-could-revolutionize-gnome-desktop.ars

i believe the thread in itself is not named well..

Zeitgeist is interesting for the panel, since it offers an easy access to usage statistics and recency, which will help pinning stuff to the panel, that we really want there.

manual pinning is an excuse for a system not knowing the stuff i like and use most IMO.