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 <[email protected]> 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 > Canonical > 27 Floor, Millbank Tower > London SW1P 4QP > +44 7885 625 999 > Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings > www.canonical.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
