Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-23 Thread Mitja Pagon
- Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It does. In the videos I watched of Charline Poirier's user test two weeks ago, of the eight out of ten people who could find the hidden menus at all, seven of them discovered the menus while mousing

Re: [Ayatana] New Unity lens - Contact lens

2011-04-23 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
2011/4/19 frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com: it's quite sexy, indeed! why not add a mockup for the maximized dash? in that one, you could make it show search results as large thumbs or cards, just as Ian suggests above, and still have the actions on the right. i'd also swap

[Ayatana] What are the advantages of an application-centric interface?

2011-04-23 Thread Ed Lin
In Unity applications and windows largely behave more like OS X while the classic desktop is more like Windows. There is a dock which represents applications as opposed to windows. It focuses windows of a running application instead of launching a new window and there is a single menubar per

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-04-23 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Marco, on touch interfaces, to drag, you are supposed interact directly with the page content. You are not supposed to see the thumb, and hence interact with it. Best, chr On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Marco Rofei marco.ro...@gmail.com wrote: New scroll bars look and behaviour as it is

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-23 Thread Biturica
For me it would be more intuitive, less cluttered, et al, if the dock had a system lens, a favorite applications lens, and a current open windows lens (adjacent to, or combined with, the workspaces lens) ...and then dispensed with the paradigm of instead placing individual launchers for /n/

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post (correction)

2011-04-23 Thread Biturica
This would also make room for migrating system tray sort of stuff to the *dock* instead, and getting rid of the top panel entirely, and putting window controls, window titles, and menu bars back into the application windows where they are far more intuitive and usable at any state of window

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-04-23 Thread cmaglothin
Actually on Android there are some instances where an overlay scroll bar IS used. For example, when moving through contacts or music albums. This makes it easier to jump to the appropriate entry as quickly as possible. On Apr 23, 2011 12:13 PM, Christian Giordano christian.giord...@canonical.com