Activities protocol

[Sebastian Trüg]

On 07/13/2010 09:57 PM, 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.
> 
> 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.

once more just so this is not forgotten: there is no need for ranking -
at least not on the data level - when linking the activity to the event
rather than to the file.