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
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)
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 http://launchpad.net/~ayatana (archives at https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/).
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).