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Ayatana Home

NotifyOSD

ApplicationIndicators

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. Specific areas of interest that take priority over everything else are: notifications, indicators, window management, launcher, places, settings and menus.

Projects by Topic

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
- Progress indication for potentially long running processes such as downloads.

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)
Application Menu for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition

Window Management:

Workspaces

Gestures (User Input Interpretation):

Double-click

File Management:

File/folder context menu

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)
Application Menu for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition(in progress)

List of patches produced as part of the Ayatana initiative

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).

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-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''.
+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''. Specific areas of interest that take priority over everything else are: notifications, indicators, window management, launcher, places, settings and menus.