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Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS
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Show local usage data #1259

Open cassidyjames opened 6 years ago

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

It could be interesting to show local, user-specific usage data, kind of like Steam's "time played" on the app listing. This could be combined with the total amount paid to communicate value.

This of course assumes we can get the usage data (e.g. from Zeitgeist?), and locally store the amount paid.

Thanks to @ted-gould via Mastodon for the idea. :wink:

peteruithoven commented 6 years ago

This would be user specific, only stored locally?

ted-gould commented 6 years ago

On U8 that is how we implemented application usage tracking. The data was Open/Close events on the applications stored in the Zeitgeist database. The ZG database was never taken off of the device.

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

@peteruithoven yes, local and per-user. If at some point we introduced an account system, this would likely be synced as well, but that's out of scope for this issue.