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Zeitgeist is a service that logs the users activity. The log can be queried
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and managed in various ways over a DBus API.
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Note that this package only contains the daemon, which you can use
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together with several different user interfaces. If you don't know
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which to use, try out https://launchpad.net/gnome-zeitgeist/.
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For more information, see:
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- https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist
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- http://zeitgeist-project.com/
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This package contains the Zeitgeist Daemon, which is for all intents an
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purposes an idle service. To take advantage of the Zeitgeist Daemon you
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something that insert log statements into it (also known as data providers or
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data sources) and you need some applications (or application plugins) to
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query and display the logged data.
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Zeitgeist Data Providers
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There is a host of data providers developed for Zeitgeist. There is a more
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or less canonical data provider known as the Zeitgeist Data Hub, but note
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that it is not more canonical that you can go without it if that is the better
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option for you. The Zeitgeist Data Hub is hosted on Launchpad:
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https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-datahub
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There is also a suite of extra data providers which is available for
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your cherry picking pleasure:
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https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-dataproviders
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Zeitgeist Client Libraries
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For Python development this package also contains a complete async client
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for working with the Zeitgeist DBus API. The API documentation can be build
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if you have Sphinx installed, otherwise you can browse it online at:
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http://zeitgeist-project.com/documentation/
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A GObject/C library for working with the Zeitgeist DBus API is available at:
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https://launchpad.net/libzeitgeist
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A CLI/C# library is available from:
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https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-sharp
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You can also find the documentation for the raw DBus API on:
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http://zeitgeist-project.com/documentation/
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Zeitgeist GUIs and Plugins
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The Gnome Activity Journal (also known as just GAJ) is hosted on:
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https://launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal
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Or a light Zeitgeist powered file browser known as Sezen:
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https://launchpad.net/sezen
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The Unity Shell (https://launchpad.net/unity) uses Zeitgeist in an indirect
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way by querying its two data daemons; unity-place-files and
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unity-place-applications:
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https://launchpad.net/unity-place-files
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https://launchpad.net/unity-place-applications
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You can write extensions for the core Zeitgeist daemon. These are written in
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Python an run directly inside the Zeitgeist Daemon process with raw access to
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the underlying database. This is not normally something you need to do, but
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if you have very special needs that are unlikely to get accepted in the core
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Zeitgeist Daemon you can almost certainly get away with with doing it as an
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There is a collection of Zeitgeist Extensions developed on:
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https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-extensions
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Notably this suite of extensions contain the Zeitgeist Full Text Search (FTS)
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extension which is needed by some GUI tools in order to give full text search
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capabilities to the daemon.
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Extensions can be deployed simply by dropping a Python module in either
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$PREFIX/share/zeitgeist/_zeitgeist/engine/extensions or for developers and the
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adventurous users they can be deployed in the home directory under
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~/.local/share/zeitgeist/extensions/. Note that user extensions take precendence
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http://zeitgeist-project.com/
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For building from a release tarball you need:
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- python 2.5 or higher
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Additionally, if building from a source code checkout you need:
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- rapper (RDF conversion tool)
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