Ayatana
The focus of the project is to improve the perception and presentation of information in the desktop, hence the name; the Buddhist term for a sense base or sense sphere. Specific areas of interest that take priority over everything else are: notifications, indicators, window management, launcher, places, settings and menus.
Projects by Topic
Software Management:
- Installing and Upgrading Ubuntu
- Updates
- Application State (launch, quit and state indication)
Progress indication for potentially long running processes such as downloads.
System State and Global Controls:
notify-osd - a notification service and a set of guidelines for organizing user interactions with notifications and dialog windows (http://launchpad.net/notify-osd)
message indicator - a generic message indicator and its underlying indicators framework ( http://launchpad.net/indicator-applet)
MeMenu - A menu in the menu bar that represents you, the user, and the things that represent you in the computer. (https://launchpad.net/indicator-me)
ApplicationIndicators - A library and indicator to take menus from applications and place them in the panel. (https://launchpad.net/indicator-application)
Application Menu for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition
TheSoundMenu - An advanced Sound Menu for the Desktop and netbook editions. Includes player integration and playlist control (in progress).
Window Management:
Gestures (User Input Interpretation):
File Management:
Projects with implementations
notify-osd - a notification service and a set of guidelines for organizing user interactions with notifications and dialog windows (http://launchpad.net/notify-osd)
message indicator - a generic message indicator and its underlying indicators framework ( http://launchpad.net/indicator-applet)
MeMenu - A menu in the menu bar that represents you, the user, and the things that represent you in the computer. (https://launchpad.net/indicator-me)
ApplicationIndicators - A library and indicator to take menus from applications and place them in the panel. (https://launchpad.net/indicator-application)
Application Menu for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition(in progress)
TheSoundMenu - An advanced Sound Menu for the Desktop and netbook editions. Includes player integration and playlist control (in progress).
List of patches produced as part of the Ayatana initiative
Contact / Getting Involved
The first point of contact for getting involved is the Ayatana mailing list at https://launchpad.net/~unity-design (archives at https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/).
You may join the Team IRC channel at #ayatana on irc.FreeNode.net. What is IRC, and how does it work? We recommend the XChat-client (XChat Howto).
Information for bug triaging and debugging of the Ayatana projects can be found at DebuggingAyatana.
Ayatana (last edited 2012-11-14 21:05:45 by 67-200-144-84)