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Re: [Bug 748120] Re: Enabling Zeitgeist data-logger in Banshee clutters the lenses

 

I think we should take a stab at this. Try to figure out how to make banshee
and rhythmbox inform us if the played song was scheduled or infact a user
activity. Nice call Mikkel (as usual) :P

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <
mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is actually a very interesting observation that will affect any
> "generic recent files list" based on Zeitgeist.
>
> My guess is that the Banshee history just describes all music playing
> activities as an event of typezg: UserActivity an a subject that is a
> nfo:FileDataObject and has interpretation nfo:Audio or something.
>
> What I believe is the "correct" behaviour for the music player is to:
>
>  - When the user manually selects a song log as described above
>  - When the music player automatically skips to the next song the
> manifestation type of the event should be zg:ScheduledActivity[1]
>
> With this logging pattern the  "generic recent files list" will only
> contain the songs you manually selected for playback which I think is
> "correct" FWIW :-) (and will make the Unity lenses work without
> modification (== less work for me yay!))
>
> [1]: The docs for zg:ScheduledActivity in fact reads: "An event that was
> directly triggered by some user initiated sequence of actions. For
> example a music player automatically changing to the next song in a
> playlist".
>
> ** Changed in: unity
>     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
>
> ** Changed in: unity
>       Status: New => Confirmed
>
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>
> Title:
>  Enabling Zeitgeist data-logger in Banshee clutters the lenses
>
> Status in Banshee Music Player:
>  Invalid
> Status in Unity:
>   Confirmed
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
>  New
> Status in Zeitgeist Data-Providers:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Because I want my recently played songs to show up in, for example,
>  the Synapse launcher, I enabled the Zeitgeist data logger extension in
>  Banshee. However, due to this all my recently played songs show up
>  under "recent files" in the files lens. Consequently, it becomes
>  practically unusable.
>

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Title:
  Enabling Zeitgeist data-logger in Banshee clutters the lenses

Status in Banshee Music Player:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
  New
Status in Zeitgeist Data-Providers:
  New

Bug description:
  Because I want my recently played songs to show up in, for example,
  the Synapse launcher, I enabled the Zeitgeist data logger extension in
  Banshee. However, due to this all my recently played songs show up
  under "recent files" in the files lens. Consequently, it becomes
  practically unusable.



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