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Application Indicator Online Tutorial Today

by | Tue 26 Jan 2010

Recently I have been talking about how stoked I am that we are [solving the problems](https://gould.cx/ted/blog/Having_a_tidy_systray) in the notification area with [Application Indicators](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators) based on [this spec from the KDE team](https://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html). We are now shipping this functionality in Lucid with Rhythmbox, Nautilus, Empathy, XChat-GNOME, Lernid and other applications using it.

Application developers are pretty excited about the technology, and as such we have scheduled a tutorial session about how to make use of the application indicator framework as part of the awesome [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek). The session is *today*, the 26th Jan at 7pm UTC / 11am PST / 2pm EST lead by the always awesome Ted Gould. More info on joining the session is [here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) or you can use [Lernid to join really easily](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2010/01/25/ubuntu-developer-week-begins-and-new-lernid-release-to-enjoy-it-with/).

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