How to make an Ubuntu application integrated?
I'm designing an application for Ubuntu and would like to make it feel natural and integrated in the OS. What are the available libraries, guidelines and frameworks that make an application look&feel native on an Ubuntu/Unity desktop? I don't exclusively mean GUI toolkits, but features like quicklists in Unity:
Solution
This page on the Ubuntu wiki is a good place to start. It lists a lot of the desktop integration tools and libraries.
Here are some of the important ones:
- AppIndicators - these are the indicators that sit in the tray
- Unity Lenses - the icons in your screenshot
- Get next number from range in lexicographical order (without container of all stringifications)
- How to replace all the values in one file with their corresponding names from another file
- Algorithm For Generating Unique Colors
- Splitting a String into Smaller Parts based on Parens
- How many bytes does one Unicode character take?
- Is floating-point math broken?
- Why is a CPU branch instruction slow?
- How to Increment unsigned int by 1 using bit-shifting & logical opr only?
- Zero-based month numbering
- Is there an algorithm for color mixing that works like mixing real colors?
- In API design, what is the term for entities that can vary without impacting each other?
- Language Agnostic API
- Why exactly not treat all warnings as errors when there're no warnings in third party code?
- Performance optimization strategies of last resort
- What are "High-level modules" and "low-level modules" (in the context of Dependency inversion principle)?
- Is "banker's rounding" really more numerically stable?
- Getting parts of a URL (Regex)
- IOException: The process cannot access the file 'file path' because it is being used by another process
- Getting the closest string match
- Is ORM still the "Vietnam of Computer Science"?
- How to concatenate every four lines for the first four lines of a file
- Convert recursion to iteration
- Is a For Loop always executed at least once?
- Converting color value from float 0..1 to byte 0..255
- What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
- Determine font color based on background color
- Difference between event handlers and callbacks
- Does float have a negative zero? (-0f)
- Why are generics called generics?
- Database query time complexity