zeitgeist

Indicator Privacy is a handy appindicator that allows users to hassle-free enable/disable privacy-related functionalities.

Basically, Indicator Privacy contains the 1-click away ability to enable/disable both online search capabilities (used by the Dash to expose results from default and third-party lenses) and Zeitgeist-powered event tracking.

Opening an image, playing a movie, editing a text document, are actions recorded in Ubuntu by Zeitgeist, Ubuntu's default event logger that pushes logged events into the Dash (and into various applications), thus allowing the user to easily access commonly used files, recently opened applications, web-browsing history, etc.

Zeitgeist is a powerful tool specialized in logging events, in the sense of keeping track of user's file interactions, such as opening text files, images, playing music tracks, copied folders, etc, events organized in a database from where applications, if it is a requirements, use them in useful scenarios like providing a Dashboard in Ubuntu's Gedit with most frequently used text files, last opened files in the Dash's home view, etc, bundle of actions made possible by sources/datasources/plugins provided by default by Zeitgeist in Ubuntu.

Browsing the web is a daily activity, where thousands and thousands of webpages are visited, helping us to obtain informations related to subjects of interest, downloading packages, etc.

Unity Web History lens gathers, categorizes and displays one's visited webpages in the Dash, allowing users to easily access visited webpages by simply typing a word and opening (by clicking on it) the desired item.

Ubuntu's Gedit is a simple yet powerful text editor with numerous configuration options and plugins, functionalities that can be easily extended with extra plugins.

Gedit Dashboard brings a Zeitgeist-powered dashboard that exposes the recently and most used text files with properly rendered previews, previews that are presented as "identifiers" for the actual text files, meaning, one can easily identify the text file, not only by its name, but also by content (looking at the readable text from inside the preview).

Ubuntu's default events logger, Zeitgeist, shifted, months ago, to a new approach, rewriting numerous internal components, as well as adopting a faster, optimized used resources attitude in Ubuntu 12.04 via the 0.9 ALPHA and BETA versions (0.8.99).

Precise Pangolin is an LTS, thus the developer are considering and working towards, in this 12.04 release, not mere stability but enhanced stability.

Ubuntu's default event logger, Zeitgeist, has been recently taken through a major "reconstruction", porting serious components to Vala, meaning Zeitgeist is, in its 0.9 version, faster and properly optimized (from used resources point-of-view).

The new 0.9 version has already landed in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and in its official stable PPA, meaning users can install the 0.9 release (0.8.99) in Oneiric Ocelot.

Activity Log Manager is an application useful for blacklisting apps to be logged by Zeitgeist and deleting the logged history, basically a GUI for logged events.

Starting with Ubuntu 12.04, Activity Log Manager gained its own default place in System Settings under System-->Privacy, from where users can delete the stored recently used files (the past hour, the past week, all, etc), set a specific file type or application as free from logging.

Zeitgeist is a powerful event logger useful for providing data for numerous apps and interfaces, consequently, users can access recently used apps, files, folders, etc logged by Zeitgeist in the Dash.

Nautilus has just been patched with Zeitgeist enhancements that bring new logging capabilities to it, meaning, Nautilus' copy and create new file are being logged and exposed in the Dash.

Weeks ago, we announced the launching of the new Vala rewritten Zeitgeist 0.9 ALPHA 1 and its availability in the official Zeitgeist PPA.

This faster version has just landed in Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin, intended to deliver a superior experience to 12.04 LTS in terms of faster response and memory usage improvements.

Along with this change, new plugins (datasources) are now installed and activated by default, Gedit's and Totem's.