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On 16 July 2010 12:54, Neil Jagdish Patel <neil.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm going to try and make release announcements every week after the
> Unity (and supporting libraries) releases, so everyone knows what
> important things have changed, what the development team would
> appreciate testing on and also important notes. So, here goes:
>
> What's New?
>
> - Global Search in Places
>  You can click the CoF, start typing, and expect to see top results of
>  that search from across the available places.
>
> - Application Indicator Integration
>  From this release you should start to see the initial integration
>  between the Appindicator framework and Unity. This translates to two
>  main (and particularly cool) things:
>
>  1. When an application like Banshee or Tomboy creates and appindicator
>     that shows up on your panel, you should see it in the Unity
>     launcher too. This also means that if the application hides it's
>     window (like Rhythmbox, Banshee and Tomboy do), it still shows up
>     in the launcher with a "running" indicator. We hope that this will
>     lead to less confusion for users when these "no-guaranteed-window"
>     applications are running. Things like Dropbox, Gnome Power Manager
>     etc are automatically ignored (or should be!).

Happy to see AppInd integration! This is why Application Indicators
are so much better than the old systray: you can much more easily
integrate it with the rest of the system.
Please be aware, though, that all music players will get rid of their
Application Indicators when their Sound Menu integration is good
enough. This includes Banshee.

>
>  2. So, we know that the application has an indicator and the awesome
>     interface of Appindicator uses a MVC-style menu-exporting system
>     using dbusmenu, so what comes to mind next? Stick these
>     application's menus in the quicklists when you right-click on an
>     application! This is *very* new so please treat it with care :)
>
>  The idea is to keep the indicators showing in both places (panel and
>  launcher) until we've had a chance to weed out all the bugs, and then
>  'steal' the indicator from the panel, so you don't have desktop apps
>  taking up space in that area of the panel.
>
> Notable Bugfixes
>
> - Sub-menu bug (where you couldn't activate sub-menus of menus opened by
>  the panel) has been fixed thanks to a Mutter patch from upstream, so
>  we can finally switch off the dual-menus!
> - Support for coloured backgrounds
> - Crashes fixed in both Unity and Clutter
> - Lots of places clean-ups
>
> What didn't make it (i.e definitely coming next week :) ?
>
> - Quicklist reveal animation
> - Multi-monitor support
> - Full background scaling/tiling/etc support
> - Background slide-show support
> - Places file-browsing
>
> Testing of the new features as well as general testing is appreciated.
> Bugs should be filed against:
>
> - http://bugs.launchpad.net/unity for UI/crasher/launcher/panel/etc bugs
> - http://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-place-files for bugs regarding search
> _results_ in the files place
> - http://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-place-applications for bugs regarding
> search _results_ in the applications
>
> I should also mention, as it doesn't seem to have been before on this
> list, that Unity is still pending final visual design, so please don't
> take what you see in the builds as final (especially in places), as we
> could be using placeholders etc.
>
> Hopefully this post has been helpful :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Neil Jagdish Patel
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