Activities protocol

[Chani]

On July 13, 2010 12:57:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On July 13, 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > a.s. This is a cross-post
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A few notifications and questions.
> > 
> > 1. The ActivityManager (KDED module) now accepts application name/id
> > when the application notifies it that it has opened a document (or any
> > other type of resource that has an url)
> > 
> > If the name is not specified, KWindowInfo is used to try and get it.
> > 
> > The reason for this is to make it possible to keep track of recently
> > opened resources (and all the stats/rating stuff Lukas is working on)
> > on a per-application basis.
> 
> sounds good.
> 
> > 2. Does anyone have objections in automatically linking a resource
> > (that the application reports is opened) with the current activity?
> 
> this will lead to lots of false positives. a file i open from an email that
> gets sent to me stands a high likeliehood of having nothing to do with the
> activity i'm in. other examples abound.

indeed (although that also suggests you've been distracted from whatever 
activity you were doing ;)

> 
> if automatic linking is implemented, then i think we'll end up needing a
> simple ranking system with documents that were automatically (passively?)
> linked by the system just due to being open with a low ranking, information
> that is accessed as a result of another item associated with an activity
> (e.g. if i have an app or window associated with an activity, then things
> opened with that app / window stand a high chance of being relevant)
> having a higher ranking and items actively marked as having the highest.

what would the ranking system be used for?