Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 06/08/10 17:15: On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled Calculator when doing a calculation, Banshee when you're playing music, and Empathy when you're

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Remco
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee, Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN, Farmville, the Gundam AnimeSuki Forum, and Hulu respectively. That they are using Firefox for 70% of these things does

[Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-07 Thread Apoorva Sharma
Currently, when a user logs in to a unity session, they are presented with a dock and a top panel. The rest of the space shows just a pretty picture. Although I like background images, I feel that for a portable device such as a netbook, this space can be put to better use. My proposal is to have

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled Calculator when doing a calculation, Banshee when you're playing music, and Empathy when you're chatting with friends -- but Firefox when you're writing e-mail,

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Traditionally, the desktop is used as a file browser for the home directory. That's the way I like it but I understand we're trying to get away from a file view in general... What about a Document view of some kind? A view of the various things you've created, and that persist in your storage

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-07 Thread Joern Konopka
Can anybody say 'Zeitgeist Timeline' please? http://twitter.com/cldx3000 On 07.08.2010, at 21:07, Jeremy Nickurak jer...@nickurak.ca wrote: Traditionally, the desktop is used as a file browser for the home directory. That's the way I like it but I understand we're trying to get away

[Ayatana] Time Date indicator settings dialog

2010-08-07 Thread Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi
Hello, I just saw the spec of the TimeDate indicator at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate, and I have a couple of questions: 1. Is anyone working on the settings dialog? 2. If the answer is no, can I develop it in a separate branch? (for 11.04) 3. If the answer is yes, can I program it in

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... Or to put it another way: The Gnome Shell application menu mimicks the Mac OS X application menu almost exactly. It may seem "shiny" or "familiar" to those designers who use a Mac, but it is

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-07 Thread David Callé
On sam., 2010-08-07 at 21:17 +0200, Joern Konopka wrote: Can anybody say 'Zeitgeist Timeline' please? Wouldn't it be redundant with the time-based view from the Dash? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :