Hey Oliver. AFAICS you're also upstream, right?
1) Well as you say, it works quite nicely with other DEs, at least those close to GNOME (like Cinnamon). Depending on Zeitgeist more or less excludes these users - maybe not from a technical PoV, but rather because such people typically don't use GNOME for things just like Zeitgeist. IMHO, it's a bit sad to focus such a nice tool only on a few desktop system... 2) ...and especially when zeitgeist is only in limited-maintenance mode, other DEs are probably not likely to build on it. 3) Well I have nothing against using Zeitgeist, but things have worked so fare quite nicely without it, so can't you just make it one optional backend, keeping the previous one as an alternative? Not requiring Zeitgeist has worked before, so why shouldn't it now? As for the features: I'm not sure whether e.g. "storing clipboard items infinitely" is a good idea in all cases, over time this could be quite some privacy issue. (Yes I've seen that you have history clearing). I personally wouldn't need to have anything stored permanently at all,... so maybe as solution could be to store things just in memory, thereby not requiring any storage backend at all? Best wishes, Chris.
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