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[Siegfried Gevatter <rainct@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2010/6/10 Patrick Michael Niedzielski <patrickniedzielski@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am Patrick Niedzielski, an avid GNU/Linux user and programmer of the
> _Humm and Strumm_ Free Software 3D adventure game [1].  I have been
> using GNOME for many years, and I am extremely excited for the release
> of GNOME 3 later this year.  I have already installed a preview of GNOME
> Shell on Debian Sid, and of course Zeitgeist.  I am interested in this
> new way of accessing files, and I think in conjunction with the older
> file system method, this is a worthwhile direction for GNOME to travel.

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your interest in Zeitgeist!

I am sorry that you didn't get an answer before; I ignored this e-mail
since I was busy with university work, and it looks like nobody else
saw it, probably because we've moved to a new mailing list on
lists.zeitgeist-project.com. I'm CC'ing the new mailing list.

> I am interested in writing a Zeitgeist module for my favorite editor,
> GNU/Emacs.  I use it far more the GEdit, and my files are obviously not
> tracked by the Gnome Activity Journal.  For now, it would just contact
> Zeitgeist when a file is loaded.  Maybe later, I could add a "recently
> used" command, analogous to the new open dialogs [2].  To my knowledge,
> Emacs doesn't have any integration with Zeitgeist.

This sounds great :).

> Could someone point me to some documentation to understand how this may
> be done?  Also, how should I submit it when it is finished (not an
> in-depth project, maybe a LISP subroutine or two)?  Thanks!

You can find a complete reference at
http://zeitgeist-project.com/documentation . However, you're probably
better off just looking at some existing plugins, which you can find
here:
 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zeitgeist-dataproviders/zeitgeist-dataproviders/trunk/files

Once you finish your plugin we can include it into the
zeitgeist-dataproviders repository.

> Cheers,
> Patrick Niedzielski <PatrickNiedzielski@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [1] http://hummstrumm.blogspot.com/
>
> [2] http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/more-takes-on-a-zeitgeist-based-open-file-dialog/

Don't hesitate asking if you need any additional information, or just
pop up in our IRC channel (#zeitgeist on Freenode, #gnome-zeitgeist on
GIMPnet).

Happy hacking,

-- 
Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
Free Software Developer       363DEAE3