Lightweight Panel replacement for efl launcher

Registered by Oliver Grawert

Current Lightweight ARM images use EFL launcher for the netbook flavour, additionally GNOME Panel is used on these images, GNOME Panel is very heavyweight and takes a long time to start, it should be replaced by sometihng more lightweight.

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
David Mandala
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Oliver Grawert
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Oliver Grawert
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for maverick
Implementation:
Deferred
Milestone target:
None

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

asac: folded into arm-m-une-launcher-on-arm for maverick
asac: resurrected after discussing with ogra; the launcher-on-arm spec will mostly deal with unity etc.
asac (23 Jun 10): whats the status on this? can we finish drafting it? or ask for review if the work items reflect the plan?

Status:
Collating information from UDS

Work items for ubuntu-10.10-beta:
[didrocks] Add a detection mechanism for HW support to unity and pop up an error message that allows to go back to gdm

Work Items:
[ted] create a simple panel (indicator-loader based) only based on gtk+ for putting indicators on the screen: TODO
[dyfet] package upanel into maverick: TODO
[ogra] File MIR for upanel and add it to ubuntu-netbook seed: TODO
[ogra] Continue maintenance and bugfixing to proper releaseable version in 10.10: TODO
[gruemaster] Identify areas of testing and develop test plan for upanel: TODO

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Work Items

Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.