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We envision 2 kinds of places. Application Places integrate with your system and applications. Web Places integrate your system with the web. Here are some examples of ideas for some places. We need '''your help''' to come up with ideas AND to help implement them. Make sure to refer to the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Places|Unity Places Documentation]] if you want to write one of these and to familiarize yourself with the terminology. | Dash is very constrained to do text and facet searching. It's not for browsing photos, or browsing music or anything like that. Dash things are search results - a search box at the top, with search results, with headers, and search filters, and that's it. === Application Places === Application Places integrate with your system and applications. There are currently three application places. * Applications - this is basically your application launcher, search for the app you want and launch * Files - this is a quick way to find a file via a dash search. * People - this is a quick way to find a person via a dash search. For Natty these are all the application places we're working on, we'd like people to concentrate on Web Places, since the opportunity to do cool things there is greater: === Web Places === Web Places integrate your system with the web. The idea here is hit the super key, search, and then have it return results from whatever website you care about. A good analogy would be that they are like [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/|Firefox Search Providers]], except they are for your entire system, not just your browser, and since they talk Zeitgeist we can manipulate that data and do cool t hings with them. Here are some examples of ideas for some places. We need '''your help''' to come up with ideas AND to help implement them. Make sure to refer to the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Places|Unity Places Documentation]] if you want to write one of these and to familiarize yourself with the terminology. |
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=== Application Places === || Name || Description || Section || Groups || Launcher || Link to Project || || Phone Place || Show apps and media installed on a plugged in device || Media, Apps, Contacts || Device Access || Phone Icon (Dropping people in here should add them to your phone or call them or something) || || || Printer Place || Show printers the system has access to || ? || Online/Offline || Printer icon (drag target so you can drop documents onto it) || || || Company Directory (how's this different from a people place?) || Find your work colleagues || Department1..DepartmentN || Sub Group? || Company logo || || || XBMC Manager || Return things on my XBMC Media Center || Movies, Television || Recently added || XBMC icon - dropping a result onto the icon plays it on your remote XBMC || || || Boxee Remote || Same as XBMC || Movies, Television, Apps, Files || Boxee logo, dropping files from the youtube place onto it queue's them up || || || Apport || Show your apport dumps || Per application || Submitted/Pending || Apport Crash logo, clicking on it should fire up apport, dragging an application onto it should be the equivalent of ubuntu-bug $app || || || Weather || Search by location for local weather forecast || Day, Week, Extended || ? || ?|| || || Stocks || Lookup by symbol || Day, Week, Extended || ? || ?|| || |
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Ideas for Unity Places
Unity Places are a cool new Unity technology that allow you to make mash ups of elements that integrate with the Dash and Launcher. An example of a Place is Seif's People Place:
In short, a place is something a user will access from either search or via a dedicated button on their launcher. It also provides a consistent way for users to search and browse this data.
Kinds of Places
Dash is very constrained to do text and facet searching. It's not for browsing photos, or browsing music or anything like that. Dash things are search results - a search box at the top, with search results, with headers, and search filters, and that's it.
Application Places
Application Places integrate with your system and applications. There are currently three application places.
- Applications - this is basically your application launcher, search for the app you want and launch
- Files - this is a quick way to find a file via a dash search.
- People - this is a quick way to find a person via a dash search.
For Natty these are all the application places we're working on, we'd like people to concentrate on Web Places, since the opportunity to do cool things there is greater:
Web Places
Web Places integrate your system with the web. The idea here is hit the super key, search, and then have it return results from whatever website you care about. A good analogy would be that they are like Firefox Search Providers, except they are for your entire system, not just your browser, and since they talk Zeitgeist we can manipulate that data and do cool t hings with them.
Here are some examples of ideas for some places. We need your help to come up with ideas AND to help implement them. Make sure to refer to the Unity Places Documentation if you want to write one of these and to familiarize yourself with the terminology.
- Note, these are just ideas, think of crazy things and add them!
- Each idea should explain what goes where in the actual Place, refer to this diagram:
Web Places
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Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
IMDB |
Search and return thumbnails of movies and TV |
Genres, so Horror, Comedy, etc. |
Movie or Television |
IMDB Logo |
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Netflix |
Search and return movies from your queue |
Genres, so horror, comedy, etc. |
At Home/In Transit/In Queue |
Netflix Logo (dropping movies from the imdb place onto here should Just Work) |
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Amazon |
Search and return stuff to buy |
Categories from amazon.com like "Electronics" |
Shipped/Preparation/In Wishlist |
Amazon Logo - Dropping items from other searches should autowishlist |
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Ebay |
Search and return stuff to buy |
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Ebay logo |
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Ask Ubuntu |
Search and return questions from askubuntu.com |
Tags |
Answered/Unanswered |
askubuntu.com logo |
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Launchpad |
Search and return results from launchpad |
Code, Bugs, Blueprints, Translations, Answers |
? |
Launchpad Logo |
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Youtube |
Search and return videos and thumbnails |
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Youtube Logo |
lp:~njpatel/unity-place-sample/unity-place-youtube |
Wikipedia |
Search and return wikipedia articles |
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Wikipedia Logo |
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Openclipart |
Search and return openclipart entries |
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Openclipart logo |
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Sports Team Schedule |
Quickly view/search your favorite team's schedule |
All, Jan, Feb, March, etc.. |
Home, Away |
Team Logo |
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Ubuntu One |
Go through your Ubuntu One Stuff |
Folder, Contacts, Music, Notes, Others |
Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc... |
Ubuntu One Logo |
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Ubuntu Developer Place |
Search API docs at developer.ubuntu.com |
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