Application indicators support in Lucid
Improvements for the notification-area to provide a more consistent user experience.
Current plan to introduce the new indicator area: https:/
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- David Barth
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Ted Gould
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for lucid
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
lucid-alpha-3
- Started by
- David Barth
- Completed by
- Ted Gould
Whiteboard
Work items for lucid-alpha-2:
[canonical-ux] need high-level usability overview (Charlene): DONE
[canonical-ux] review and approve guidelines for porting apps (merge of right click menu, toggling, KDE compat., etc.): POSTPONE
develop indicator-area (systray replacement): DONE
[ted] update dbusmenu to support more entry types: DONE
develop libappindicator (client-side library): DONE
develop menuproxy helper lib (client-side library): DONE
[agateau] add dbusmenu support to kdelibs: DONE
document libs: DONE
introduction document: DONE
setup gtk-doc and do the doc sub-package: DONE
port rhythmbox: DONE
create C# bindings: DONE
[jassmith] (help) port tomboy: DONE
create Python bindings: DONE
port system-
port jockey: DONE
[ted] create test tools for dbusmenu: DONE
Work items for lucid-alpha-3:
[canonical-ux] review and approve guidelines for porting apps (merge of right click menu, toggling, KDE compat., etc.): DONE
[canonical-ux] official list of "standard" items: like checkboxes, radiobuttons, and what /not/ to support that GTK does: DONE
[canonical-ux] official "extra set" of items: On|Off toggles, expanders, etc.: POSTPONE
[ted] transparent fallback support for libappindicator library: DONE
[bratsche] automatic menu updates: DONE
[ted] API review : DONE
[ted] add dbusmenu support for an extra set of entries: DONE
[canonical-ux] recommendations for the 19 priority apps: DONE
[canonical-ux] provide a set of new panel icons: POSTPONE
[agateau] improve test tools for dbusmenu: DONE
[agateau] identify dbusmenu performance issues: DONE
[agateau] improve dbusmenu performance: DONE
[agateau] drive dbusmenu FD.o discussions: POSTPONED
port priority set of applications:
Note: marking tons of postpones, but for half of them the patches are ready; kept as reminder
brasero: POSTPONE
gnome-bluetooth: DONE
gnome-control-
vino: POSTPONE
gnome-disk-utility: POSTPONE
gnome-media: POSTPONE
[ted] gnome-power-
gnome-settings-
[agateau] hplip: POSTPONE
[agateau] kdenetwork/kppp: POSTPONE
[agateau] kdenetwork/kopete: DONE
Work items for ubuntu-
[canonical-ux] official "extra set" of items: On|Off toggles, expanders, etc.: POSTPONE
[canonical-ux] provide a set of new panel icons: DONE
[agateau] document the dbusmenu protocol: POSTPONE
indicator-area fixes & improvements: DONE
Priority apps:
brasero: DONE
vino: INPROGRESS
gnome-disk-utility: DONE
gnome-media: POSTPONE
[ted] gnome-power-manager (or assist contributors doing the port: DONE
gnome-settings-
hplip: INPROGRESS
[agateau] kdenetwork/kppp: DONE
ibus: DONE
policy-gnome: DONE
transmission: DONE
Note: app. indicators dev statuses based on https:/
Work items for ubuntu-
[agateau] document the dbusmenu protocol: POSTPONED
Work items for ubuntu-10.04:
[agateau] document the dbusmenu protocol: TODO
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
