Jump Lists / Quick Lists / Dash Embellishments in GNOME 3

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

Hi All,

I see that Ubuntu has merged [1] their implementation of 'quick lists'
[2], and also offer ways to embellish their application launcher icons
with numbers and progress bars.

Is there a plan describing how these things might fit with gnome-shell
(or not)? [5] leaves this part unspecified.

As I understood it, quick lists were meant to be supported upstream via
exported GApplication actions [4], gtk offers GtkNumerableIcon [5] (but
nothing in the dash), and there is no progress bar equivalent. Is this a
correct summary, and is there a recommendation to application authors
how similar things might be done in GNOME3?

Regards,

John


[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI
[2] AKA Windows 7 jump lists
[3] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/AppIntegration
[4] http://library.gnome.org/devel//gio/2.27/GApplication.html
[5] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/unstable/GtkNumerableIcon.html