Launcher - Add ability for apps to indicate progress through Launcher icon

Bug #676596 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
Critical
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
unity design (obsolete project)
Fix Released
Critical
John Lea
unity-2d
Fix Released
Medium
Ugo Riboni
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Add ability for apps to indicate progress through Launcher icon

Description:

Apps need the optional ability to indicate progress through the launcher. This ability could be used for say a browser to indicate download progress or a video editor to indicate rendering progress.

The following art assets are linked from this bug:

1. progress_animation.mov
   https://chinstrap.canonical.com/~johnlea/1104launcher/progress_animation.mov
   (Animation of launcher icon showing the indication of progress)

2. progress_design.png
   https://chinstrap.canonical.com/~johnlea/1104launcher/progress_design.png
   (Design showing progress indicator)

Related branches

John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udn-launcher
Changed in unity-design:
status: New → Incomplete
assignee: nobody → Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic)
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: udt
Changed in unity-design:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Critical
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Critical
assignee: nobody → Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic)
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic) → John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity-design:
assignee: Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic) → John Lea (johnlea)
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-2d:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity-2d:
milestone: none → 3.6
Revision history for this message
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

Just a status update.

The client side support has landed in libunity so any libunity costumer can now specify the relevant state on their launcher icon. The branch I just attached, lp:~unity-team/unity/launcher-api, implements the Unity side of things. The branch should be ready by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Changed in unity:
assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
Changed in unity-2d:
assignee: nobody → Ugo Riboni (uriboni)
Revision history for this message
Jason Smith (jassmith) wrote :

Rendering code released along with this

Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 3.4.2
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Ugo Riboni (uriboni)
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in unity-2d:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
David Barth (dbarth)
tags: added: needsdesignreview
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
John Lea (johnlea)
tags: added: reviewedbydesign
removed: needsdesignreview udt
no longer affects: libunity (Ubuntu Quantal)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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