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Controlling Privacy Setting in Ubuntu with Gnome Activity Log Manager

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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com – Whenever the The Electornic Frontier Foundation (EFF) commends Ubuntu for "retrofitting operating systems to support privacy against local attackers" as a worthy objective, I'm inclined to sit up and take notice. Since Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04) these privacy setting have been integrated out of the box as a feature in the System Settings menu. It's called Activity Log Manager (previously Zeitgeist Global Privacy), a GUI frontend to partially control Zeitgeist. It's what powers Ubuntu's Dash in the Unity desktop. Here's how to use it to control what the Gnome activity log is recording. Ca (General)

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Submitted by dayu on 08/19/2012

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-installing unity-place-applications, unity-place-files

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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.

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I want to solve this problem and thought about trying activity-log-manager to edit Zeitgeist log (or something like that, if I use the right terms).

I have Zeitgeist 0.9.5 installed and Synaptic allows installing activity-log-manager v. 0.9.4. I have installed it. It is visible in main menu, in usr/bin/ as well as in /usr/share/applications/, also the Launcher Synapse sees it.

https://launchpad.net/activity-log-manager

I found a spec file for the old 0.8 version of the zeitgeist activity-log-manager in bugzilla.

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Su Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin sarà possibile visualizzare nella dashboard di Unity tutti i file indicizzati quindi email, conversazioni, immagini, video, ricerche, ecc.