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[Rick Harris <1251915@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Still being hit with this bug on Trusty.

Some digging into zeitgeist's source shows that it gets the application info from the *.desktop file using glib's GDesktopAppInfo 
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.33/gio-Desktop-file-based-GAppInfo.html#g-desktop-app-info-new

Reading the info from the above URL and using konsole.desktop again as
the example, zeitgeist will only find konsole.desktop if it is renamed
kde4-konsole.desktop.

Another solution is to create a symlink named /usr/share/kde4 that
points to /usr/share/applications/kde4 and add /usr/share/kde4 to
XDG_DATA_DIR desktop env. variable at login.

** Description changed:

- Using Saucy 13.10, when using KDE applications launched from the Dash,
- they do not show up as 'Recently used' neither in the Home or
- Applications lenses.
+ Using Saucy 13.10 and Trusty 14.04, when using KDE applications launched
+ from the Dash, they do not show up as 'Recently used' neither in the
+ Home or Applications lenses.
  
  Seems zeitgeist or the information presented to it cannot get the path
  to the KDE application's *.desktop file.
  
  Using 'konsole' as a KDE application example:
  
  ~ $ /usr/libexec/zeitgeist-fts --log-level=DEBUG
  ** (zeitgeist-fts:28799): DEBUG: zeitgeist-fts.vala:106: got insertion notification
  ** (zeitgeist-fts:28799): DEBUG: Indexing event with ID: 6382
  ** (zeitgeist-fts:28799): WARNING **: Unable to get info on application://konsole.desktop
  
  This happens because 'konsole.desktop' resides in
  /usr/share/applications/kde4/konsole.desktop
  
  If I symlink or copy 'konsole.desktop' to
  /usr/share/applications/konsole.desktop, then everything works as it
  should, zeitgeist index's the event correctly and Konsole shows under
  'Recently used' for Home and Applications lenses.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251915

Title:
  Dash + zeitgeist does not log use of KDE applications for 'Recently
  used'

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Using Saucy 13.10 and Trusty 14.04, when using KDE applications
  launched from the Dash, they do not show up as 'Recently used' neither
  in the Home or Applications lenses.

  Seems zeitgeist or the information presented to it cannot get the path
  to the KDE application's *.desktop file.

  Using 'konsole' as a KDE application example:

  ~ $ /usr/libexec/zeitgeist-fts --log-level=DEBUG
  ** (zeitgeist-fts:28799): DEBUG: zeitgeist-fts.vala:106: got insertion notification
  ** (zeitgeist-fts:28799): DEBUG: Indexing event with ID: 6382
  ** (zeitgeist-fts:28799): WARNING **: Unable to get info on application://konsole.desktop

  This happens because 'konsole.desktop' resides in
  /usr/share/applications/kde4/konsole.desktop

  If I symlink or copy 'konsole.desktop' to
  /usr/share/applications/konsole.desktop, then everything works as it
  should, zeitgeist index's the event correctly and Konsole shows under
  'Recently used' for Home and Applications lenses.

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