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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

are we going to call it global query one day, or could anybody please
somehow pop up with a friendly name for this wonderlamp of desktop
launch and control inteface...?

On 2010-07-16, 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!).
>
>   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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