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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you, Thomas, that's cool. I've started to check the progress on
> this with the Mir team on IRC. Good to know.
>

Great.

> As for indicators in general (that was my former link [2]), is that
> the most current documentation? I've tried to find some how-to's,
> especially for developing with Python, but there's not much to be
> found. My best guess was to look at the source code of existing
> projects. That is helpful, even though they're typically written in C,
> but a demonstrated clean Python approach would be nice.
>
> An interesting indicator I found a design document about is the Sync
> Menu [5]. Is there some work progressing on this, or is this expected
> to come from vendors and/or the community? Who is in charge of this
> topic?
>

I think you want to talk to seb128 in #ubuntu-desktop for further
information and dispatching :)

Have a great weekend,
Cheers,

  Thomas

> [5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncMenu
>
> Cheers, Peter
>
>
> 2015-11-26 21:35 GMT+01:00 Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> in the context of convergence, the Unity8 desktop environment will be
>> powered by Mir. With that, the approach presented in
>> [1] is not going to work as
>>
>>   (a.) X is not going to be around as the primary display server anymore.
>>   (b.) Mir does not expose information about the global coordinate
>> system (required to get window placement right).
>>
>> However, as the consistent placement of windows (in multi-monitor
>> scenarios) has been requested numerous times
>> for the current version of Unity, we decided that Mir should offer
>> support for it out of the box. IIRC, the implementation is
>> work-in-progress
>> and we are certainly happy for all sorts of contributions (testing,
>> code, ideas and reviews). The Mir team can be reached via
>> their mailing list (see [3]) or in #ubuntu-mir@freenode.
>>
>> If you still would like to contribute to the current version of Unity,
>> the best place to ask your indicator-specific questions is on
>> the ubuntu-desktop mailing list (see [4]) or in #ubuntu-desktop@freenode.
>>
>> Have a great day,
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   Thomas
>>
>> [3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Mir-devel
>> [4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have the need for a utility that saves the state of all open windows
>>> on the desktop, so that when I attach or detach one or more external
>>> monitors all application windows are restored in size and position the
>>> way they were last time that specific monitor setting was active.
>>>
>>> There is a solution for this problem [1], but in order to make this
>>> application accessible to mainstream I would like to write an
>>> application with an app indicator that gives easy control.
>>>
>>> Is there something special to think about and to take into
>>> consideration with regards to convergence when implementing this?
>>> Where do I find the up-to-date documentation (is it [2], or is that
>>> source out-of-date?), sample implementations, how-to's, etc.?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any hints,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/561197/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-your-windows-from-moving-when-an-external-monitor-is-c/561824?noredirect=1#comment1022616_561824
>>> [2] https://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/appindicators/