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Ayatana is a collective effort to improve the user experience of software in and for Ubuntu. It encompasses a number projects started by Canonical and is open for feedback, ideas and initiatives from the community. Activities reach from problem definition, research and conception to implementation.

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.

Projects by Topic

• Hardware and Drivers
• Software Management
  • Installing and Upgrading Ubuntu
  • Discovering, Adding and Removing Software

    • Issues with the Update Manager and updates in general

  • Updates
  • Application State (launch, quit and state indication)

    • Windicators

• 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)

• Window Management

  • Workspaces

• Gestures (User Input Interpretation)

  • Double-click

• Patches

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)

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. We recommend the XChat-client (XChat Howto).