Zeitgeist 0.3.3 released

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On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, I am pleased to announce the

immediate availability of Zeitgeist 0.3.3. It introduces an improved

relationship algorithm, new sorting types for queries, a data-source

registry (providing the possibility of easily disabling individual

loggers) and several bug fixes and other enhancements.

 

What is Zeitgeist?

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Zeitgeist is an event-logging framework for desktop and mobile

devices. Applications can push events into the log, and anyone can

query the log via the rich query API. The logged events are

semantically categorized and can come from any sort of activity, such

as file usage, communications, browsing history, etc. The Zeitgeist

engine is a user-level service and does not provide a GUI. It is

intended to support dedicated journalling applications and deep

integration with other desktop components.

 

Where?

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Downloads: https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist/+download

 

About Zeitgeist: http://zeitgeist-project.com

 

Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist

 

News since 0.3.2

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Engine:

 

- Added MostPopularActor, LeastPopularActor, MostRecentActor and

LeastRecentActor as possible ReturnTypes for FindEvents and

FindEventsId (LP: #493903).

- Let {Find,Get,Insert}* hooks know the bus name of the caller, when

executed over D-Bus.

- Add an extension implementing a data-source registry (allowing to disable

data-sources from a centralized place and see their description).

- Overhauled FindRelatedUris for better results and improved performance.

- Changed FindEvents, FindEventIds and FindRelatedUris to not treat zeros in

the given TimeRange specially; "(0, 0)" can no longer be used (LP: #490242).

- Fixed a crash in the GtkRecentlyUsed data-source parsing malfored .desktop

files (LP: #526357), and added support for more file mimetypes (LP: #510761).

- Fixed a crash in the GtkRecentlyUsed data-source trying to read broken

symlinks disguised as .desktop files (LP: #523761).

- Fixed a crash in the GtkRecentlyUsed data-source which happened when there

was no display friendly version of a URI (LP: #531793).

- Renamed --no-passive-loggers option to --no-datahub. Output printed by

zeitgeist-datahub is no longer visible in zeitgeist-daemon's output.

- Added --log-level option to change the output verbosity.

- DeleteEvents now correctly removes any unreferenced values (URIs, actors,

etc.) and not only the events themselves (LP: #491646).

- Fixed insertion of events with a payload (LP: #557708).

- Fixed an exception in DeleteEvents.

- Fixed event deletions not always getting committed (LP: #566184).

- Ignore deletion requests for non-existant events.

 

Python API:

- Made the Interpretation and Manifestation classes iterable.

- Added symbol lookup by URI, in the form of dictionary access.

- Fixed the display name for Interpretation.SOURCECODE.

- Fixed find_events_for_values and find_event_ids_for_values (LP: #510804).

- Added a get_extension() method to ZeitgeistDBusInterface, to get convenient

access to D-Bus interfaces provided by engine extensions.

 

Overall:

- More fixes and code enhancements.

- Manpage updates.

- Translation updates.

 

Cheers,

 

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Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)

Free Software Developer 363DEAE3

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