Ideas

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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

Printer Place

Show printers the system has access to

?

Online/Offline

Printer icon (drag target so you can drop documents onto it)

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

lp:whatever