QZeitgeist and Phonon

[Sebastian Trüg]

On 03/08/2011 08:58 PM, todd rme wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/08/2011 09:53 AM, Ivan Cukic wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> First of all, one thing to mention - KDE apps are not advised to use
>>> QtZeitgeist directly because that way the 'tracking' has no idea about the
>>> activities.
>>>
>>> File/resource tracking (and thus rating) should be per activity - as an
>>> example, there is no point in showing java docs that you used in
>>> 'Developing J2EE application' activity in a 'KDE development activity'.
>>>
>>> The classes that should be used are KActivity* which will soon enter
>>> kdelibs/experimental.
>>>
>>> The activity manager (the dbus service behind KActivity classes) will have
>>> both Zeitgeist and Nepomuk as backends. (both as optional deps)
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Zeitgeist vs Nepomuk
>>>
>>> Sebastian concluded that storing all the events in Nepomuk wouldn't be
>>> wise, so it was agreed to store them in Zeitgeist which was designed with
>>> that sole purpose.
>>
>> to be precise: I wanted to test storing all in Nepomuk first which I
>> have not done yet.
> 
> Does this mean you would want to give nepomuk this capability if the
> tests are successful?

it is only about storing the data. There is no point in recreating all
the zeitgeist plugins. But storing the data in Nepomuk makes a lot of
sense since then it can be queried in combination with any other data as
compared to only being able to list usage times.

Cheers,
Sebastian