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["Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rico has completed implementation of the dock part - it's already
available in PPA - and Ubuntu One happens to support it!

Only https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gala/+spec/minimized-as-closed
is left to do, most of which sounds quite trivial and some items are
already implemented.

So, any objections on the design?

2013/3/30 Nishant Agrwal <nishantagrwal12993@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Bump.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Not everyone checks the list every day; for example, I'm on vacation this
> week and haven't had the time to sit down and flesh this out. Let's keep
> this discussion open a bit longer than two days. ;)
>
> On Mar 24, 2013 10:01 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff"
> <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Any objections on this? It's about time to voice them.
>>
>> If not, this should be added to the relevant HIG article,
>> http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/user-workflow/background-tasks
>>
>> 2013/3/22 Nishant George Agrwal <nishantagrwal12993@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Okay, so the thread about Noise not complying to the HIG turned into
>>> quite a general discussion about the HIG and background application
>>> behaviour so I am creating this new thread with a better title to continue
>>> it. Here's a link to the old thread:
>>> https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg02046.html
>>>
>>> Summing up, we need to think about proper ways to create and deal with
>>> background applications, i.e, applications that don't require interaction
>>> with the user for most or a big part of the time they are running, like mail
>>> clients, IM clients, music players, microblogging apps, etc. Typically,
>>> these apps don't fit well into any one task the user is performing, so it
>>> often doesn't make sense for these applications to be bound to a particular
>>> workspace either.
>>>
>>> To this end, applications are to intelligently handle closing the window
>>> to do whatever best suits the situation. The following could be guidelines
>>> to what the app must do (this deals with the user-facing elements, not the
>>> implementation)
>>>
>>> "If you'd check a specific application frequently but not in reaction to
>>> notifications it raises (e.g. group chat, even if you weren't pinged
>>> directly) or if it has to be accessible as quickly as possible while it's
>>> running (e.g. music player, to pause music), the app should display an icon
>>> in the dock while it's running.
>>> If the app is primarily brought up in reaction to a notification and if
>>> the state of the app doesn't significantly affect its usage frequency (e.g.
>>> microblogging client - if the user tweets often they'd pin it to dock
>>> anyway), it should display an icon in the dock only when there are
>>> unattended action items (e.g. new messages) along with the action item count
>>> in the dock badge."
>>>
>>> As far as implementation goes, this branch was recently merged into
>>> plank, which enables preliminary support for batches and progress bars
>>> without the need for an open window.
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~ricotz/plank/launcherentry-items
>>> For hiding the window while keeping the dock icon visible, one solution
>>> would be to make better use of minimize. The following blueprint would need
>>> to be implemented:
>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gala/+spec/minimized-as-closed
>>>
>>> That's all folks.
>>>
>>>
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