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Ayatana is a project to improve the user experience of the Ubuntu desktop.

The Ayatana project is intended to focus effort on improving user interaction with the desktop. This encompasses a large number of projects, which can be found on the Ayatana Wiki on Ubuntu.com.

There are several categories that take priority:

  • Notifications
  • Indicators
  • Window management
  • Launcher
  • Places
  • Settings
  • Menus
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How do I get multiple workspaces in Unity?

Possible Duplicate: How can I reduce or increase the number of workspaces in Unity? This video from a Unity developer shows him clicking on the workspace button in the launcher to use multiple workspaces (aka virtual desktops). On my 2 netbooks…
Jorge Castro
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Why do indicator applets exist?

Why Ubuntu uses the Indicator Applet? It loses a lot of usability, why made it when Gnome already have one? Example Without indicator applet: Application is in the icon tray Left click opens the application window Right click shows a menu related…
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Are there plans for a progress indicator?

Status menus seem to be intended, among other things, to streamline indications. Some of these indications are not confined to the old Notification Area: others can be found on their own windows and indicate running processes, such as Nautilus…
Bou
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How do I integrate an application in the sound menu using python?

I don't necessarily expect a whole tutorial for creating a sound indicator entry here on askubuntu, but I've searched and searched, and I can't seem to find any documentation on creating a sound indicator. Preferably, I'd like to be able to do this…
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How do I control the position of an indicator created with appindicator.Indicator?

I've created a simple indicator in python using the appindicator module. However, it always shows up to the left of the existing indicators. Is there some way to control what position the indicators appears in? For example, it currently displays…
Ramón
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How do I migrate from systray to AppIndicators?

I am considering forking Parcellite and making it use AppIndicators now that Ubuntu has dropped support for systray. How different are these, and are there any "getting started" guides on AppIndicators yet?
jrg
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When do things in the new Unity Panel turn blue?

I've noticed a couple surprising blue icons in the new Unity panel. I think I noticed the envelope glowed blue when I had a new message, and I think the BFB glowed blue when I had a wiggling application, but I can't be sure. I even think the volume…
mlissner
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Other devices in the battery power indicator?

Every now and then, I encounter some mention of other devices being shown in the power indicator. For example, along with the laptop battery, listing the battery level for an iPod being charged over USB. I understand the specification mentions that,…
Dylan McCall
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After update to 24.04: dark mode only when I enter Appearance settings

I recently updated my Ubuntu to 24.04 (before I was on 23.10). I use the Mate desktop environment, but installed that as add-on to a "regular" installation (via the usual packages). I like to use a dark theme. After the update the systems behaviour…
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Merging with notify-osd

I've written a program that uses Notify-OSD but occasionally messages from my app will stack up in the queue. I've read about Notify-OSD merging However, it doesn't do this automatically - how can I get my application to merge notifications so they…
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How to remove username from "Me" menu (right near to power button on the top panel)?

Possible Duplicate: How do I replace the MeMenu username with my actual name? My user name takes approximately as long as would 6 icons. I don't need to see my username, I am the only user of my computer. How can I remove it? I use Ubuntu…
Ivan
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How do I correctly disable a mac-style application menu in classic desktop edition?

I installed "indicator-applet-appmenu" and tried the same for "global menu". It does not work for the most of applications and does not seem convenient with my monitors configuration. The problem is, that now (despite I have no "appmenu applet"…
Ivan
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With Unity, Evolution calendar alarms are not persistent. How can I make them so?

I use alarms attached to events in my Evolution calendar. With Unity, I get the usual notification at the appropriate time, but unlike in 10.10 or previous versions, there is no persistent reminder of the event (no 'alarm clock' icon in the system…
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Are there any goals for the update manager behavior with Unity?

The notification tray approach to the update manager has been discarded in favor of a pop-under window to increase awareness of updates. With a complete redesign in shell behavior upcoming are there any plans on changing the behavior still some…
user6658
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Ubuntu MATE 21.04: Keyboard shortcut to show notifications list

I'm trying to find keyboard shortcuts to: (1) Show notifications list (2) Clear notifications list I have gone through this AskUbuntu…
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