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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/12/10 06:52, Shane Fagan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:04 +0530, Owais Lone wrote:
>> Just wanted to check. Are Windicators targeted for Natty? How much
>> work has been done? What if I wanted to play with it a little?
> No there was no talk about anything unless canonical have it going on
> it.

I'd love to see it done, but it's not critical to "getting Unity out
there" which is our mission for 11.04. So if you're interested:

 - look at the AppIndicator protocol / API's
 - chat with Mikkel on IRC, or Ted Gould, depending on your timezones
 - sketch out an API which essentially generalises AppIndicator, so an
app can publish multiple window indicators on the dbus, each window
indicator behaving just like an AppIndicator: it's an icon (which can
change) and a menu (which can change)
 - we can arrange to patch Compiz to put the windicators in the window
title bar or panel

Mark

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