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[Siegfried Gevatter <rainct@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just pushed a fix for zeitgeist-datahub (so that it'll find
OpenOffice.org files) to lp:zeitgeist. I think Didier Roche wanted to
get an updated Zeitgeist package into Maverick; I'll e-mail him about
including this change.

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revision rainct@xxxxxxxxxx-20100925104208-8eerljaq7ly6rhw0 (1608)
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Branch: zeitgeist-trunk

    recent.py: add workaround for OpenOffice.org files
    
    Backport the workaround used in the Vala datahub, which special-cases
    OpenOffice.org documents so that we can identify their .desktop file by
    looking at the mime-type in addition to the executable name.
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not all files show up in files-place
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724
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Status in Unity: Triaged
Status in Unity Files Place: Triaged
Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources: In Progress

Bug description:
The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to files/documents etc. is really great.

However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.

E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.

I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.

For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the Unity files-place interface.

To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware applications.