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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the right approach is to stick with Zeitgeist and then figure
out ways to access/discover contents that you don't have in your
Zeitgeist log.

For Natty I see two things we can do to improve the situation:

 a) Ship more dataproviders for Zeitgeist. In other words: Make sure
apps either update .recently-used.xbel or that they log stuff directly
in ZG.

 b) Integrate other means of discovery. For example:
   b1) Listing music files via the MPRIS2 API
   b2) Integrating removable devices (USB sticks) directly in the places (they just show up in the launcher now)
   b3) U1 integration
   bN) ...

If we combine these things I think we can have a very light and flexible
system which we can tailor just to our liking.

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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 Framework: Fix Released
Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources: In Progress
Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

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.