1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Avant-window-navigator 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Henry Zhang (hua.zhang@sun.com) 1.3. Date of This Document: 10/07/08 1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s): 1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project: Solaris PAC 1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project: LSARC 1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project: Robert.Odea@Sun.Com 1.4.4. The name of your business unit: JDS Desktop Engineering, OPG 1.5. Email Aliases: 1.5.1. Responsible Manager: leo.binchy@Sun.COM 1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: hua.zhang@Sun.COM 1.5.3. Marketing Manager: jeff.mcmeekin@sun.com 1.5.4. Interest List: awn@sun.com 2. Project Summary 2.1. Project Description: Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the desktop. 2.2. Risks and Assumptions: 1. Through the preferences of AWN, AWN manager, user can add new applets, which is developed by third-party or someone, but they are not stable or missing some dependencies required to run , so may cause some error. So if user like to add new applets, should go to Applet Gallery, and install the stable ones. If someone develop the applet for AWN, should follow Applet Submission at http://wiki.awn-project.org/Awn_Extras:Applet_Submission 3. Business Summary 3.1. Problem Area: Now all of the Operating System is providing the desktop tool for user to view and control system, user can start many applications in the system, so it's useful to provide user a GUI tool to list all of the running applications, and user can use it to active/deactive the application or access some location by simply click one icon. Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is just this type of tool, it looks very cool, and really provide user great convenience to manage the running applications. 3.2. Market/Requester: JDS Desktop group 3.3. Business Justification: Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. So it can provide user an easy way to track the opened windows, and user can launch some location by simply click some launcher, user also can add applets, and set the theme to make AWN looks very cool. 3.4. Competitive Analysis: Mac OS has leopard Dock. 3.5. Opportunity Window/Exposure: It is expected that this project will be integrated into Nevada B99. 3.6. How will you know when you are done?: When it is ported to Nevada and runs correctly. The project will be complete when there are no stoppers, P1 or P2 bugs. 4. Technical Description: 4.1. Details: Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list, you can also add a place or location (home folder or a drive for example) to the dock. So to make you have control of your computer just from the dock. AWN is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of you screen, allowing you to launch and control applications. Also has the ability to embed external applets. Look and feel are fully customisable, and theming support is also available. AWN ships with only the Launcher/Taskmanager applet. Many other applets, such as the Main Menu, "Stacks", CPU meter, and GMail notifier applets can be found in Awn Extras. Once you have installed some applets, you can add them to the dock via awn-manager, in the "Applets" section. User also can develop plugin for AWN, which allow already-existing applications to interact with AWN. Awn Extras is a project focusing on providing a number of important applets (not unlike the panel applets for Gnome and Xfce) in a single package, along with a number of plugins that allow applications to better interface with Awn's task manager. These applets range from a Trash applet to fancy workspace switcher. To obtain them, follow the Awn Extras download instructions. You will find the plugins in /awn-extras/awn-plugins. 4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s): N/A 4.3. In Scope: The applets included into the core distribution of AWN 4.4. Out of Scope: Applets developed by third party developers. 4.5. Interfaces: Imported Interfaces Interface Stability Comments ------------------- ----------- ----------------------------------- X11 libraries & protocols Standard ASARC 1995/265, PSARC 1998/299 libXrender.so.1 External dbus Volatile LSARC/2006/368 libXdamage External LSARC/2003/506 libXcomposite Volatile PSARC/2007/240 gnome-python2-gconf Uncommitted LSARC/2005/506 gnome-python-desktop Volatile LSARC/2006/202 Python Volatile PSARC/2005/532, PSARC/2006/290 PSARC/2006/290 GNOME Committed Platform Libraries Committed LSARC/2007/520 GTK+ library GNOME 2.20 Exported Interfaces Stability Comments ------------------------- ------------- --------------------------------- /usr/bin/awn-applet-activation Volatile /usr/bin/avant-window-navigator Volatile /usr/bin/awn-launcher-editor Volatile /usr/bin/awn-manager Volatile /usr/bin/awn-schema-to-gconf Volatile SUNWavant Uncommitted Package name SUNWavant-devel Uncommitted Package name SUNWavant-root Uncommitted Package name 4.6. Doc Impact: Man page will need to be added 4.7. Admin/Config Impact: There are no changes to the system administration and configuration. 4.8. HA Impact: N/A 4.9. I18N/L10N Impact: To be needed 4.10. Packaging & Delivery: The new packages are: - SUNWavant - SUNWavant-devel - SUNWavant-root 4.11. Security Impact: There is no additional security impact for Solaris. 4.12. Dependencies: libwnck-1.0 gnome-desktop-2.0 libgnome-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 gconf-2.0 x11 xproto dbus-glib-1 libglade-2.0 xdamage xcomposite xrender python2.5-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev python-gnome2-extras-dev 5. Reference Documents: Avant Window Navigator main project page: http://launchpad.net/awn Avant Window Navigator Wiki: http://wiki.awn-project.org/ Avant Window Navigator Forum: http://www.planetblur.org/hosted/awnforum 6. Resources and Schedule: 6.1. Projected Availability: Expect to integrated into Nevada in build 99 in Q3 2008 6.2. Cost of Effort: Development 1.0 Engineers - 1 Months Testing 0.5 Engineers - 1 Week RE 0.5 Engineers - 1 Week 6.3. Cost of Capital Resources: N/A 6.4. Product Approval Committee requested information: 6.4.1. Consolidation or Component Name: JDS / OpenSolaris 6.4.3. Type of CPT Review and Approval expected: Standard 6.4.4. Project Boundary Conditions: None 6.4.5. Is this a necessary project for OEM agreements: No 6.4.6. Notes: N/A 6.4.7. Target RTI Date/Release: Nevada B99 - August 2008 6.4.8. Target Code Design Review Date: August 2008 6.4.9. Update approval addition: New project, no Solaris PAC approval yet 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack 7. Prototype Availability: 7.1. Prototype Availability: August 2008 7.2. Prototype Cost: 1 engineer 1 QA 1 RE