Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mark,

On the design of the windicators, how exactly do they fit? Im not really
getting a good image in my head about how they will be fitting in since
the area that they were supposed to be put into is going to be removed
for maximized windows.

--fagan

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:41 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 10/12/10 06:52, Shane Fagan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:04 +0530, Owais Lone wrote:
> >> Just wanted to check. Are Windicators targeted for Natty? How much
> >> work has been done? What if I wanted to play with it a little?
> > No there was no talk about anything unless canonical have it going on
> > it.
> 
> I'd love to see it done, but it's not critical to "getting Unity out
> there" which is our mission for 11.04. So if you're interested:
> 
>  - look at the AppIndicator protocol / API's
>  - chat with Mikkel on IRC, or Ted Gould, depending on your timezones
>  - sketch out an API which essentially generalises AppIndicator, so an
> app can publish multiple window indicators on the dbus, each window
> indicator behaving just like an AppIndicator: it's an icon (which can
> change) and a menu (which can change)
>  - we can arrange to patch Compiz to put the windicators in the window
> title bar or panel
> 
> Mark
>