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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
avant-window-navigator for OpenSolaris
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Henry Zhang
1.3 Date of This Document:
16 July, 2008
4. Technical Description
1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Avant-window-navigator
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Henry Zhang (hua.zhang at sun.com)
1.3. Date of This Document:
10/07/08
1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:
Solaris PAC
1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
LSARC
1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
Robert.Odea at Sun.Com
1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
JDS Desktop Engineering, OPG
1.5. Email Aliases:
1.5.1. Responsible Manager: leo.binchy at Sun.COM
1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: hua.zhang at Sun.COM
1.5.3. Marketing Manager: jeff.mcmeekin at sun.com
1.5.4. Interest List: awn at sun.com
2. Project Summary
2.1. Project Description:
Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the
desktop.
2.2. Risks and Assumptions:
1. Through the preferences of AWN, AWN manager, user can add new applets,
which
is developed by third-party or someone, but they are not stable or
missing
some dependencies required to run , so may cause some error. So if
user like to add new applets, should go to Applet Gallery, and install
the
stable ones. If someone develop the applet for AWN, should follow Applet
Submission at http://wiki.awn-project.org/Awn_Extras:Applet_Submission
3. Business Summary
3.1. Problem Area:
Now all of the Operating System is providing the desktop tool for user
to view
and control system, user can start many applications in the system, so
it's
useful to provide user a GUI tool to list all of the running
applications,
and user can use it to active/deactive the application or access some
location
by simply click one icon. Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is just this type
of tool,
it looks very cool, and really provide user great convenience to manage
the
running applications.
3.2. Market/Requester:
JDS Desktop group
3.3. Business Justification:
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom
of the
screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party
applets.
So it can provide user an easy way to track the opened windows, and user
can launch some location by simply click some launcher, user also can add
applets, and set the theme to make AWN looks very cool.
3.4. Competitive Analysis:
Mac OS has leopard Dock.
3.5. Opportunity Window/Exposure:
It is expected that this project will be integrated into Nevada B99.
3.6. How will you know when you are done?:
When it is ported to Nevada and runs correctly.
The project will be complete when there are no stoppers, P1 or P2 bugs.
4. Technical Description:
4.1. Details:
Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the
linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can
be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window
list, you can also add a place or location (home folder or a drive for
example) to the dock. So to make you have control of your computer just
from the dock.
AWN is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of you screen, allowing
you to launch and control applications. Also has the ability to embed
external applets. Look and feel are fully customisable, and theming
support is also available.
AWN ships with only the Launcher/Taskmanager applet. Many other applets,
such as the Main Menu, "Stacks", CPU meter, and GMail notifier applets
can be found in Awn Extras. Once you have installed some applets, you
can add them to the dock via awn-manager, in the "Applets" section.
User also can develop plugin for AWN, which allow already-existing
applications to interact with AWN. Awn Extras is a project focusing on
providing a number of important applets (not unlike the panel applets
for
Gnome and Xfce) in a single package, along with a number of plugins that
allow applications to better interface with Awn's task manager.
These applets range from a Trash applet to fancy workspace switcher.
To obtain them, follow the Awn Extras download instructions. You will
find the plugins in /awn-extras/awn-plugins.
4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
N/A
4.3. In Scope:
The applets included into the core distribution of AWN
4.4. Out of Scope:
Applets developed by third party developers.
4.5. Interfaces:
Imported Interfaces
Interface Stability Comments
------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------
X11 libraries & protocols Standard ASARC 1995/265,
PSARC 1998/299
libXrender.so.1 External
dbus Volatile LSARC/2006/368
libXdamage External LSARC/2003/506
libXcomposite Volatile PSARC/2007/240
gnome-python2-gconf Uncommitted LSARC/2005/506
gnome-python-desktop Volatile LSARC/2006/202
Python Volatile PSARC/2005/532, PSARC/2006/290
PSARC/2006/290
GNOME Committed Platform Libraries Committed LSARC/2007/520 GTK+ library
GNOME 2.20
Exported Interfaces Stability Comments
------------------------- -------------
---------------------------------
/usr/bin/awn-applet-activation Volatile
/usr/bin/avant-window-navigator Volatile
/usr/bin/awn-launcher-editor Volatile
/usr/bin/awn-manager Volatile
/usr/bin/awn-schema-to-gconf Volatile
SUNWavant Uncommitted Package name
SUNWavant-devel Uncommitted Package name
SUNWavant-root Uncommitted Package name
4.6. Doc Impact:
Man page will need to be added
4.7. Admin/Config Impact:
There are no changes to the system administration and configuration.
4.8. HA Impact:
N/A
4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
To be needed
4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
The new packages are:
- SUNWavant
- SUNWavant-devel
- SUNWavant-root
4.11. Security Impact:
There is no additional security impact for Solaris.
4.12. Dependencies:
libwnck-1.0
gnome-desktop-2.0
libgnome-2.0
gnome-vfs-2.0
gconf-2.0
x11
xproto
dbus-glib-1
libglade-2.0
xdamage
xcomposite
xrender
python2.5-dev
python-gnome2-dev
python-gnome2-desktop-dev
python-gnome2-extras-dev
5. Reference Documents:
Avant Window Navigator main project page:
http://launchpad.net/awn
Avant Window Navigator Wiki:
http://wiki.awn-project.org/
Avant Window Navigator Forum:
http://www.planetblur.org/hosted/awnforum
6. Resources and Schedule:
6.1. Projected Availability:
Expect to integrated into Nevada in build 99 in Q3 2008
6.2. Cost of Effort:
Development 1.0 Engineers - 1 Months
Testing 0.5 Engineers - 1 Week
RE 0.5 Engineers - 1 Week
6.3. Cost of Capital Resources:
N/A
6.4. Product Approval Committee requested information:
6.4.1. Consolidation or Component Name:
JDS / OpenSolaris
6.4.3. Type of CPT Review and Approval expected:
Standard
6.4.4. Project Boundary Conditions:
None
6.4.5. Is this a necessary project for OEM agreements:
No
6.4.6. Notes:
N/A
6.4.7. Target RTI Date/Release:
Nevada B99 - August 2008
6.4.8. Target Code Design Review Date:
August 2008
6.4.9. Update approval addition:
New project, no Solaris PAC approval yet
6.5. ARC review type:
FastTrack
7. Prototype Availability:
7.1. Prototype Availability:
August 2008
7.2. Prototype Cost:
1 engineer
1 QA
1 RE
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
Desktop
6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
