On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Peter Bittner <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Thomas, that's cool. I've started to check the progress on > this with the Mir team on IRC. Good to know. >
Great. > As for indicators in general (that was my former link [2]), is that > the most current documentation? I've tried to find some how-to's, > especially for developing with Python, but there's not much to be > found. My best guess was to look at the source code of existing > projects. That is helpful, even though they're typically written in C, > but a demonstrated clean Python approach would be nice. > > An interesting indicator I found a design document about is the Sync > Menu [5]. Is there some work progressing on this, or is this expected > to come from vendors and/or the community? Who is in charge of this > topic? > I think you want to talk to seb128 in #ubuntu-desktop for further information and dispatching :) Have a great weekend, Cheers, Thomas > [5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncMenu > > Cheers, Peter > > > 2015-11-26 21:35 GMT+01:00 Thomas Voß <[email protected]>: >> Hi Peter, >> >> in the context of convergence, the Unity8 desktop environment will be >> powered by Mir. With that, the approach presented in >> [1] is not going to work as >> >> (a.) X is not going to be around as the primary display server anymore. >> (b.) Mir does not expose information about the global coordinate >> system (required to get window placement right). >> >> However, as the consistent placement of windows (in multi-monitor >> scenarios) has been requested numerous times >> for the current version of Unity, we decided that Mir should offer >> support for it out of the box. IIRC, the implementation is >> work-in-progress >> and we are certainly happy for all sorts of contributions (testing, >> code, ideas and reviews). The Mir team can be reached via >> their mailing list (see [3]) or in #ubuntu-mir@freenode. >> >> If you still would like to contribute to the current version of Unity, >> the best place to ask your indicator-specific questions is on >> the ubuntu-desktop mailing list (see [4]) or in #ubuntu-desktop@freenode. >> >> Have a great day, >> Cheers, >> >> Thomas >> >> [3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Mir-devel >> [4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >> >> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Peter Bittner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have the need for a utility that saves the state of all open windows >>> on the desktop, so that when I attach or detach one or more external >>> monitors all application windows are restored in size and position the >>> way they were last time that specific monitor setting was active. >>> >>> There is a solution for this problem [1], but in order to make this >>> application accessible to mainstream I would like to write an >>> application with an app indicator that gives easy control. >>> >>> Is there something special to think about and to take into >>> consideration with regards to convergence when implementing this? >>> Where do I find the up-to-date documentation (is it [2], or is that >>> source out-of-date?), sample implementations, how-to's, etc.? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any hints, >>> Peter >>> >>> [1] >>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/561197/is-there-a-way-to-prevent-your-windows-from-moving-when-an-external-monitor-is-c/561824?noredirect=1#comment1022616_561824 >>> [2] https://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/appindicators/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
