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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/10/12 13:17, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 15/10/12 16:08, Anders Wallenquist wrote:
> > A couple of months ago I was demonstrating OpenERP at a large swedish 
> > government agency for a project group working with next generation 
> > platform. This group wanted to have OpenERP demonstrated on Ubuntu 
> > 12.04, and during the demonstration it became obvious that they 
> > thought the HUD (Heads Up Display) was an important feature. Its a 
> > desktop feature working fast with applications just using keyboard. 
> > They had a criteria that all applications they choose should work the 
> > same way and HUD was one of them.
> well you can integrate with the HUD from a web app, and this is 
> something I might have a crack at implementing in OpenERP at some 
> point (but if anyone else wants to beat me to it then feel free)
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.04/javascript/
> there are various integration points for web based applications to 
> link into different parts of the Ubuntu desktop, like notifications, 
> HUD, messaging menu and launcher actions.
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/openerphud.png

it works rather well actually :)
I need to tidy up the code a touch, it doesn't correctly deal with menus 
nested two levels deep, but fundamentally it works, I will pop it on 
launchpad later this weekend.

Alan.

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