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[Seif Lotfy <seif@xxxxxxxxx>]

uhm other way round where the subject came from :)

2009/11/24 Siegfried Gevatter <rainct@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Seif: Thanks for your kind words.
>
> Everyone: Okay now that I'm home (wrote the previous message when
> checking mails from the phone, so that I don't forget to answer :P),
> here comes what I wanted to say.
>
> As I understand it, the point for "origin" is to know where a particular
> event came from. So, eg. if you are on a website and there's and you
> click on a link to download a PDF, the resulting DOWNLOAD_EVENT would
> have the page where the link was as origin (as opposed to the online
> location of the PDF, which is an information that should go into
> Tracker). If I am on page1.com/links and there I click on page2.com/foo,
> the resulting VISIT_EVENT with subject page2.com/foo would have origin
> page1.com/links, if I read a mail and there I right click on an e-mail
> address and add it to my contacts list (in case we ever log that) would
> give an event where the origin is the e-mail you were reading, etc. Like
> this I think events make sense and are useful, even though I'm not sure
> they are worth the mess (which is why I wouldn't disagree with removing
> them entirely).
>
> About just storing the domain name or the document, what's the point?
> It's just duplication of information. For filtering we should support
> full text searches (in URI and Title), using the origin (which for this
> is also named wrongly, btw, it should be called "root" rather than
> "origin") is rather useless; why would someone want to look for items in
> /home? What I want is to look at items in /home/rainct/Documents/Foobar/
> containing "lala" in the filename.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> origin should be a property of events, not items
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/425258
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> Status in Zeitgeist Engine: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Both http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist/DatabaseDesign and our current
> implementation have "origin" as a property of items, but this makes no
> sense, as the origin can be different for every event and should as such be
> a property of it. (Further, to improve disk space usage we should save the
> actual value of it in the "uri" table).
>
> I'm filling this bug so that we don't remember to fix it, but please let's
> ignore it until we get the basic event/item separation stuff merged - most
> important stuff first.
>
>

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origin should be a property of events, not items
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/425258
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Status in Zeitgeist Engine: Invalid

Bug description:
Both http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist/DatabaseDesign and our current implementation have "origin" as a property of items, but this makes no sense, as the origin can be different for every event and should as such be a property of it. (Further, to improve disk space usage we should save the actual value of it in the "uri" table).

I'm filling this bug so that we don't remember to fix it, but please let's ignore it until we get the basic event/item separation stuff merged - most important stuff first.