On 28/10/10 12:49, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you!
That's why we want to move the desktop to human language.
Words like application, service or process have nothing to do with
writing a letter, watching a movie or listening to music.
Certainly the words Service or Process may not
The Fact that everyone and His Mom know what an App is can mostly be credited
to the Fact that Apple created some of the most simple advertisements in
History with strong visual emphasis on how to use the aforementioned Apps.
Think of it this way, you know what's an App cause? There simply
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 22:31, Joern Konopka cldx3...@googlemail.comwrote:
The Fact that everyone and His Mom know what an App is can mostly be
credited to the Fact that Apple created some of the most simple
advertisements in History with strong visual emphasis on how to use the
Hello Steve, welcome, sorry about my formulation sometimes, i was never much
of a poet ;)
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:22, steve-ayat...@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 28/10/10 12:49, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you!
That's why we want to move the desktop to human language.
It's a bit hard
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote:
People know what a web browser is.
By far, most of them do not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEt0N3xu0Do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH5ZIXItkS8
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Me neither :-(
For a while, I thought a windicator would work, but I can't think of a
relevant status that covers the use cases of the menu other than a
tools icon, which isn't status at all.
Functionally, I
On 19/08/10 10:48, Allan Caeg wrote:
That could work for Unity (though I'm not very familiar with it), but
we also have to think about other platforms. Got to think about
something that will work upstream (GNOME).
Ah, you touch on my sensitivities!
From our perspective, Unity is upstream,
On 19/08/10 12:54, Allan Caeg wrote:
Oops! That's not what I meant, good sir! I just wanted to make sure
that we're not forgetting other platforms. I love what you and the
rest of the Ubuntu team do. We sometimes just have miscommunications
because of semantics and stuff.
Perhaps, what I
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Vishnoo wrote on 07/08/10 19:59:
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas
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In Ubuntu 9.10 and later, the application icon does not appear in the
window title bar, partly for the same reason (it's not relevant to
user goals).
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Ryan Peters wrote on 07/08/10 20:12:
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee,
Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN, Farmville, the Gundam AnimeSuki Forum,
and Hulu
On 08/09/2010 05:56 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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Ryan Peters wrote on 07/08/10 20:12:
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee,
Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN,
Ryan,
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 11:22 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
While browsers might not be focused on branding, that branding is
still
there. My point, however, isn't the branding, but the fact that there
is
a brand. If we treated every web browser as web browser or every
email
client as
Not showing the branding while the app is running may reduce cognitive load,
just like what MPT said. However, there are issues with this.
*Apps that are supposed to do the same things have differences that many
people know or need to know.*
Whenever I'm browsing, I have to know that it's Firefox,
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Ryan Peters wrote on 06/08/10 17:15:
On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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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
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
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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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,
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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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
On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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Ryan Peters wrote on 30/07/10 21:05:
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GNOME 3 comes out next year. With it comes many new technologies
including the Application Menu, a message tray for
Here's Alex Faaborg's view on Firefox menu on the toolbar and the menu that
Ryan Peters suggested
the app menu looks like it is exactly the type of control we are interested
in having (both for our own use, and because we think it is a good direction
for the general design of desktop
To make things clearer, when he said
the app menu looks like it is exactly the type of control we are interested
in having (both for our own use, and because we think it is a good direction
for the general design of desktop applications).
he was referring to this
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