Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread SorinN
Good stuff - the menu (M) button should be implemented by ages .. finally some necessary order regarding usability 2011/3/21 frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com: hi fred ;) On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 16:11, Fred n...@lognet.com.br wrote: The Unit has been points of divergence

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Mitja Pagon
Good stuff - the menu (M) button should be implemented by ages .. finally some necessary order regarding usability No it should not, it's a bad idea and a degradation of usablity and if you would have even the basic understanding of the subject of usability you would know why. Cheers,

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread SorinN
I have the basic subject of Usability ;) In fact I still earn money from this domain on a monthly basis. About menu button - It's all about the user choice - Usability is one of the Quality domains (btw) - for some applications, some users never use menu entries and for some applications they

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Pablo QuirĂ³s
The new behavior for devices is an interesting idea to explore; not quite sure about the rest. Dynamic icons could be very confusing for some users... 2011/3/21 SorinN nemes.so...@gmail.com I have the basic subject of Usability ;) In fact I still earn money from this domain on a monthly

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 11:12, Mitja Pagon wrote: Good stuff - the menu (M) button should be implemented by ages .. finally some necessary order regarding usability No it should not, it's a bad idea and a degradation of usablity and if you would have even the basic understanding of the subject of

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 11:41, SorinN wrote: Using Close-Minimize-Maximize buttons on the left side on the window top is a breach for example (if you would have even the basic understanding of the subject of usability you would know why...) +1 :-) Regards, Lee. -- It is characteristic of theistic

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 12:01, Mitja Pagon wrote: First it's not all about choice, second if application has menus users never use, should that application have menus at all? But that is not a problem that should be solved on a shell level, it's up to applications to improve their interfaces. Surely it

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 03/21/2011 01:42 PM, Lee Hyde wrote: As I mentioned previously, I favour these nested vertical menus (for me they're much more intuitive*). Even if, as a fallback for applications which still rely on a menu toolbar (presently the vast majority) it involves a vertical implementation of said

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-21 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2011/3/19 frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com Hello mpt :D On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 18:05, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 17/03/11 10:16: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 14:27,

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-21 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hello Gnomeuser.. if that's your name.. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 14:30, gnomeu...@gmail.com gnomeu...@gmail.comwrote: For reference, currently Vala in Natty is broken so sadly no testing with the latest stack. see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/+bug/739368 thanks for

Re: [Ayatana] Dash should be in full screen by default in desktop

2011-03-21 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 13:27, Bilal Akhtar bilalakh...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 03/17/2011 12:54 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:44, Muhammad Nabil ottoman.k...@yahoo.com wrote: Dash in full screen looks better. Thanks. +1 keeping the dash small would

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 13:27, Thorsten Wilms wrote: But having to hit one target to reveal a 2nd level can't compete with having that level directly accessible. (One might see Marking Menus as an exception, where a little training allows blind use.) I've found (and I can only speak for myself here of

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Bazon
IMHO: keeping the old Gnome application categories and making them easy accessible is a good idea. Only using icons without text is a bad idea, that makes things very hard to distinguish. Specially in the recent documents. On 20.03.2011 16:11, Fred wrote: The Unit has been points of

[Ayatana] 2 nd idea for Unity - Mockup

2011-03-21 Thread Fred
I made a new mockup with new ideas including social networking and a better interface with menus. I hope it will be useful for developers. Mockup in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=0O6v9miJKGIvq=hd720 -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Fred

Re: [Ayatana] 2 nd idea for Unity - Mockup

2011-03-21 Thread Phong Cao
+1 here!! I think your design can solve lots of Unity's usability issues... On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Fred n...@lognet.com.br wrote: I made a new mockup with new ideas including social networking and a better interface with menus. I hope it will be useful for developers. Mockup in

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 11:43 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: On Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:46:25 PM Vishnoo wrote: It's not just the shape. I would suggest you have a look at icons in iPad/iPhone and compare them. You will quickly realize where Canonical can get sued.. ;-) I don't have an

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-21 Thread Ian Santopietro
I disagree. Unity offers a very different experience (or at least they could, given different default settings. Setting backlights to toggle would clear up a lot of complaints about unity. On top of that, you get the aesthetic appeal of the square-ish icons and the usability/individuality of icons

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 22:55 -0600, Ian Santopietro wrote: I disagree. Unity offers a very different experience (or at least they could, given different default settings. Setting backlights to toggle would clear up a lot of complaints about unity. On top of that, you get the aesthetic appeal of

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~dpm/indicator-datetime/translator-comments into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-03-21 Thread David Planella
David Planella has proposed merging lp:~dpm/indicator-datetime/translator-comments into lp:indicator-datetime. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) For more details, see: