Heads up

[George Farris]

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 09:12 +1100, Jason Heeris wrote:
> >> To my knowledge none of the  implementation (like
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/HUD#Architecture ) has started.
> >
> > There are currently no plans for this (or at least none that I'm aware of).
> 
> I've been trying to make a start on this, but I've reached a bit of an
> impasse. My understanding of it is that there are modules/plugins for
> GTK/GTK3/Qt/XUL applications to load; these plugins exports the
> applications' menus to some central services run under Unity. There's
> a DBus service for searching these menus that their HUD UI hooks into.
> 
> A GNOME Shell extension should be able to access this DBus service and
> take advantage of it too, and that's what I've been working on.
> 
> The problem is that while these DBus services work under Unity, they
> return no results under GNOME. No-one so far has been able to tell me
> how to get the HUD DBus service working under GNOME, what services
> need to be launched, when they need to be launched, etc.
> 
> You can see the specifics in this Stackoverflow question:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15328506/how-can-i-get-results-from-the-hud-dbus-service-under-gnome
> 
> ...and these ubuntu-devel threads:
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036505.html
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-March/036754.html
> 
> Once I figure out how to get these DBus services to work under GNOME,
> I can wrap it up in some basic Shell extension code and publish
> something.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason
> 


Well if you do get anywhere I hope you try keep it general and not an
Ubuntu specific thing, so it can be used under Debian and fedora, for
example.

George