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Comment: Added the Filmaster; a FLOSS online tool for rating, reviewing, "collecting", and discussing movies. Free software is important in the cloud too! First wiki edit hope I did it right.
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Added Zoho and Feng Office to Docs Lens. Feng Office is Free Software, so it's important to support it. That also means the Lens needs to support both the public server and installs on other servers
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|| Zoho || Find, view and open-in-browser docs from Zoho || Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Forms, Drawings || Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc... || Zoho Logo || Link to Project || || Feng Office || Find, view and open-in-browser docs from Feng Office || Documents, Notes, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Forms, Drawings || Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc... || Feng Office Logo || Link to Project || |
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|| Library || Find books from Amazon, Google Books, Wikimedia Commons, etc. and open them in desktop app when possible || Essays, Novels, Documentation, Magazines, ? || Read, Buy || A pile of books || [[https://launchpad.net/unity-books-lens|lp:unity-books-lens]] || | || Library || Find books from Amazon, Google Books, Wikimedia Commons, Open Content Alliance, Gutenberg Project, Flat World Knowledge, etc. and open them in desktop app when possible || Essays, Novels, Documentation, Magazines, ? || Read, Buy || A pile of books || [[https://launchpad.net/unity-books-lens|lp:unity-books-lens]] || |
Ideas for Unity Lenses
Lenses used to be known as Places. When referring to code and APIs we still use the term Places, but the user-visible name is Lenses. The Places name will be retired in 11.10.
Unity Lenses 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 Lens is Seif's People Lens:
In short, a Lens 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 Lenses
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. We are purposely not supporting fancy widgets or anything like that - a Lens is there to return data that people care about.
Application Lenses
Application Lenses integrate with your system and applications. There are currently three application Lenses.
- 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 Lenses we're working on, we'd like people to concentrate on Web Lenses, since the opportunity to do cool things there is greater:
Web Lenses
Web Lenses 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 Lenses. We need your help to come up with ideas AND to help implement them. Make sure to refer to the Unity Lenses 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 Lens, refer to this diagram:
Video Lens
The following information could be aggregated into a single video lens:
Name |
Description |
Section |
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 Lens onto here should Just Work) |
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Amazon |
Search and return stuff to buy |
Categories from amazon.com like "Films" |
Shipped/Preparation/In Wishlist |
Amazon Logo - Dropping items from other searches should autowishlist |
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Youtube |
Search and return videos and thumbnails |
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Youtube Logo |
lp:~njpatel/unity-Lens-sample/unity-Lens-youtube |
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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Filmaster |
Search and return ratings and your likely rating of the movie (based on how you've rated similar movies), reviews, reviews by friends, similar movies, cast, trailer, tags. |
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Movie/In wishlist |
Filmaster logo |
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Shopping Lens
The following information could be aggregated into a single shopping lens:
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
Ebay |
Search and return stuff to buy |
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Ebay logo |
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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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Answer Lens
The following information could be aggregated into a single answer lens:
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
Ask Ubuntu |
Search and return questions from askubuntu.com |
Questions, Tags, Users, Badges, Unanswered |
Answered/Unanswered maybe? Not sure. |
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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Wikipedia |
Search and return wikipedia articles |
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Wikipedia Logo |
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Sports Lens
The following information could be aggregated into a single sports lens:
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
Sports Team Schedule |
Quickly view/search your favorite team's schedule |
All, Jan, Feb, March, etc.. |
Home, Away |
Team Logo |
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Docs Lens
The following information could be aggregated into a single docs lens:
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
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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Google Docs |
Find, view and open-in-browser docs from Google Docs |
Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Forms, Drawings, Collections |
Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc... |
Google Docs Logo (?) |
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Alfresco |
Search and view documents and spaces |
Space (folder hierachy) |
group by document metadata items |
Alfresco logo |
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Zoho |
Find, view and open-in-browser docs from Zoho |
Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Forms, Drawings |
Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc... |
Zoho Logo |
Link to Project |
Feng Office |
Find, view and open-in-browser docs from Feng Office |
Documents, Notes, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Forms, Drawings |
Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc... |
Feng Office Logo |
Link to Project |
Books Lens
The following information could be aggregated into a single books lens:
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
Library |
Find books from Amazon, Google Books, Wikimedia Commons, Open Content Alliance, Gutenberg Project, Flat World Knowledge, etc. and open them in desktop app when possible |
Essays, Novels, Documentation, Magazines, ? |
Read, Buy |
A pile of books |
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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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Other data sources
Other data sources that could be aggrigated into future lenses:
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
Openclipart |
Search and return openclipart entries |
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Openclipart logo |
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Ubuntu Developer Lens |
Search API docs at developer.ubuntu.com |
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OpenERP |
View product shipments, financial info etc |
Month |
Customer/Product |
OpenERP logo |
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vtiger |
Search and view customers, documents etc |
Customer |
person assigned |
vtiger logo |
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Cloud |
Search and view virtual servers click to open SSH session or vnc/SSH |
Guest operating system |
group by host or customer |
cloud picture |
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Agenda |
Find tasks, notes, appointments, holidays etc. from your (Google?) calendar |
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Lenses Full of Crazy
Name |
Description |
Section |
Groups |
Launcher |
Link to Project |
Terminal |
For all you Quake Fans |
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Make it additive to the GNOME-terminal icon so everyone who pins a terminal to their Launcher just gets it. Dragging text and dropping it onto the icon should expand the lens and prepoluate with the clipboard text. |
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Unity/Lenses/Ideas (last edited 2012-04-28 01:52:01 by 130)