Description =========== When the shell shows lists of applications (either running or non-running), a "jumplist" is a set of actions that can be performed with that application.
For the purposes of this discussion, we'll distinguish between two types of actions: 1. Opening files that you have used with that app. 2. Using actions that the application lets you perform. For example, the shell shows "LibreOffice" as an icon. It could have the following jumplist as items in its contextual menu: Open recently-used.odt Open another-recently-used.ods Open my-presentation.odp ------------------------------ Create a text document Create a spreadsheet Create a presentation Owner ===== Federico Mena Quintero Involved parties ================ Gnome-shell team Zeitgeist team Current status ============== There has been discussion about how to implement jumplists [0]. For practical purposes, we can divide them into mostly orthogonal sections: - Files used with an application - retrieving this list is is Zeitgeist's job. See the note below. - Actions from non-running applications - Both Unity and KDE already have a scheme to publish actions in standard .desktop files. For example, there can be a "Create presentation" action within libreoffice.desktop that says something like this (this is not the correct syntax, but you get the idea): [Action] Name=Create Presentation Command=ooimpress --new Icon=ooimpress.png This is described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI#Quicklists - I didn't have time to look up KDE's reference, but we should be able to standardize on something. - Actions from running applications - For example, a music player may want a "Pause" command, which only makes sense when the music player is running. (A music player is a bad example because there already is a protocol to control music players, but you get the idea.). Ryan Lortie has been working on the "wip/menus" branch in glib, which essentially lets applications provide menu commands through D-Bus. This needs to be finished. Note on Zeitgeist ================= There is an extension for gnome-shell, based on Zeitgeist, which already provides gnome-shell's contextual menus for apps with the files that have been used for each app. This is in https://github.com/seiflotfy/gnome-shell-zeitgeist-extension This can obviously be implemented in terms of GtkRecentManager, but since we are moving *that* to using Zeitgeist internally [1], we may as well do the same in gnome-shell directly. [0] https://live.gnome.org/DocumentCentricGnome#Jumplists [1] https://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/GtkRecentManagerAndZeitgeist Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list