update: note that this turned out not to be all that useful – tracking active windows into hamster turned out better.
in response to gnome bug 639018 and my general desire to track automatically what i’ve done, i’ve made a python script which connects to the zeitgeist activity monitor and copies its messages to the hamster time tracker. it goes like this:
#!/usr/bin/python
# monitor zeitgeist and do stuff
from zeitgeist.client import ZeitgeistClient
from zeitgeist.datamodel import TimeRange, Event
from gobject import MainLoop
import hamster.client
class hamster_handler(hamster.client.Storage):
def handler(self, tr, ev):
# because the mainloop appears to catch exceptions
from traceback import print_exc
from urlparse import urlparse
try:
# FIXME insert clever rules here
app = urlparse(ev[0].actor).netloc
desk = open("/usr/share/applications/" + app)
comments = filter(lambda x: x.startswith("Comment[en_GB]="), desk)
comment = comments[0].split("=")[1].strip()
self.add_fact(comment + " - " + ev[0].subjects[0].text)
except:
print_exc()
hh = hamster_handler()
ml = MainLoop()
ZeitgeistClient().install_monitor(
TimeRange.from_now(),
[Event()],
hh.handler,
hh.handler)
ml.run()
It never ends until it’s killed so you’ll probably want to run it in the background – i’ve added it to my session ‘startup applications’. if it doesn’t appear to be working then run it from the command line instead – you should see some error messages if it’s failing to update hamster.
on my fedora 14 system i only get updates for local text files, images and videos opened in gedit, EoG and totem. on ubuntu i imagine you’ll get a lot more updates. OTOH, on ubuntu the script will probably need some tweaking for the hard-coded paths and locale.
i’ve decided not to link this to my hamster-to-empathy updater – i don’t really want to broadcast a stream of every little thing i do .. particularly if my IM accounts include twitter and facebook status feeds. 🙂
but why? 