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I’ve been thinking about the proper way to handle fulltext searches in Zeitgeist. (E.g. searching through a file’s content instead of just searching for files by name.)
I think the best solution is to fall back to Tracker and other search engines for all text searches. This is especially important if we index things like GMail [...]

I’m sitting at the Coffee Bean with a large Ice Mocha. Things that I’ve been working on include:

The GNOME Journal article on Zeitgeist which is due today.
An improved version of the mockup which I posted last night. (The new mockup is still only on paper.)
I discussed this bug with Ketil.
I’ve been thinking about how to [...]

I came up with a quick mockup for Zeitgeist last night. (Yes, it’s bare, hand drawn, and full of squiggly lines that are supposed to be straight.)
Comments are welcome. If enough people find it interesting, I might write some code for it this week.

Introduction
Rodney Dawes wrote an interesting post that I saw on Planet GNOME a few weeks back. Here’s one excerpt that I found noteworthy:
The Future is not your desktop. It is mobile devices. It is tablets. It is holographic displays and interfaces. It is flexible transparent screens. It is your television, your appliances, your home, your [...]

At the GNOME Summit, Owen suggested the following:
When trying to decide on a language for applets/widgets, just about everyone will suggest their own favorite language along with reasons why that language is appropriate. However, one thing that needs to be considered is choosing nobody’s favorite language- Javascript.
Owen, I see your point but have to disagree. [...]

I’ve been invited to the GNOME User Experience Hackfest in Boston, and I’m going! (Thanks to the GNOME foundation who offered to cover the expenses.)
One of the main topics of the hackfest is collaboration throughout the desktop. Universal Applets 0.1 should be out by the time that the hackfest begins, so it’ll be a good [...]

There’s a lot going on in the Universal Applets community at the moment, so I’ve decided to start writing semi-weekly wrap-up posts summarizing everything that’s happened. Here goes news roundup #1:

(Thanks, Kwaanens)
Forking
I know the news is already out all over the forums, so I’ll try to keep this short: There’s been some tension [...]

I’m reposting a shortened version of this email to the Gnome-love list. The bolded bit talks about the project’s current status.
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I’m trying to fix the problem by creating a universal applets framework for GNOME that’s mostly based on Screenlets. The goal is to create a common applet format that can be easily loaded into any [...]

See this for an explanation of what Desktop 2.0 is.
Here’s a quick mockup of a Growl-like notifications server for GNOME.

Update: Please see this forum thread for details.
What is “Desktop 2.0?”
“Desktop 2.0″ is to the operating system what Web 2.0 is to the Internet. The following are the key elements of Desktop 2.0 (unless you’re new to Linux, you may want to skip a large part of the following explanation and go directly to here):

Mini [...]