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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:

peopleplace.png

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

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 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:

unity-glossary.png

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

?

?

Web Places

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

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)

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

Ebay

Search and return stuff to buy

Ebay logo

Ask Ubuntu

Search and return questions from askubuntu.com

Tags

Answered/Unanswered

askubuntu.com logo

Launchpad

Search and return results from launchpad

Code, Bugs, Blueprints, Translations, Answers

?

Launchpad Logo

Youtube

Search and return videos and thumbnails

Youtube Logo

lp:~njpatel/unity-place-sample/unity-place-youtube

Wikipedia

Search and return wikipedia articles

Wikipedia Logo

Openclipart

Search and return openclipart entries

Openclipart logo

Sports Team Schedule

Quickly view/search your favorite team's schedule

All, Jan, Feb, March, etc..

Home, Away

Team Logo

Ubuntu One

Go through your Ubuntu One Stuff

Folder, Contacts, Music, Notes, Others

Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, etc...

Ubuntu One Logo