Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-23 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Mitja On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 20:16, Mitja Pagon mitja.pa...@inueni.com wrote: Still I fail to see what actual problem(s) windicators are meant solve or in what way are they supposed to better UX. To me it seem like it's a solution in of search of a problem to solve. The initial note

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-21 Thread Connor Carney
A sound windicator in Banshee seems like an edge case to me, because Banshee (a) already lives in the system sound indicator, and (b) usually runs in the background. A better starting point might be to consider something like a sound windicator in Totem, which doesn't normally have an entry in

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-21 Thread Mitja Pagon
...@inueni.com Cc: he...@owaislone.org, ayatana@lists.launchpad.net, Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:08:53 AM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Windicators On 20/02/11 18:39, Mitja Pagon wrote: Using the example of volume control mentioned below, am I the only one

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I think we should provide a standard collapsing approach for things which could be window indicators and which are commonly system indicators too, like volume. When maximised, the window indicator is embedded in the system indicator (so there's only one volume indicator, and in there you find

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Mitja Pagon
...@owaislone.org, ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:57:59 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Windicators I think we should provide a standard collapsing approach for things which could be window indicators and which are commonly system indicators too, like volume. When maximised

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Carl Simpson
Annoyingly, this somehow ended up in a completely different thread due to the horrors of human error. I'm reposting here. Sticking with the examples of Banshee and volume, for the sake of argument, we also recognise two sorts of window indicator: a) A window indicator that stands alone as

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.comwrote: My concern is that the functionality of changing the volume of Banshee moves about quite a bit. It does this in two ways: 1) It moves from place to place in the interface- namely between the panel and the window

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 20/02/11 18:39, Mitja Pagon wrote: Using the example of volume control mentioned below, am I the only one who thinks windicators make little sense and are in fact bad UX. No, of course you are not the only person, there's lots of dissent, which is fine and stimulates discussion to get a

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-04 Thread Carl Simpson
2011/1/4 Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com When maximised, they go into the panel, on the right, left of any app-indicators. Can we can assume from this that per-application functions, such as volume control and network status, wont be tenable uses of the windicator idea, since this would

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-04 Thread Carl Simpson
To clarify, I mean people tend to want that somewhere in the front-and-centre interface; I'm aware that it's there in gnome-volume-control. 2011/1/4 Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com 2011/1/4 Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com When maximised, they go into the panel, on the right, left of any

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-04 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com wrote: Can we can assume from this that per-application functions, such as volume control and network status, wont be tenable uses of the windicator idea, since this would result in duplicates (e.g., two volume controls) or

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 10/12/10 06:52, Shane Fagan wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:04 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: Just wanted to check. Are Windicators targeted for Natty? How much work has been done? What if I wanted to play with it a little? No there was no talk about anything unless canonical have it going on

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-03 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Mark, On the design of the windicators, how exactly do they fit? Im not really getting a good image in my head about how they will be fitting in since the area that they were supposed to be put into is going to be removed for maximized windows. --fagan On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:41 +,

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/01/11 02:44, Shane Fagan wrote: On the design of the windicators, how exactly do they fit? Im not really getting a good image in my head about how they will be fitting in since the area that they were supposed to be put into is going to be removed for maximized windows. When maximised,

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/06/10 14:15, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: I agree that the F-Spot example isn't status; I couldn't think of anything appropriate for that. :-) Does F-Spot not have an online / offline mode yet? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-07-07 Thread Diego Moya
On 18 June 2010 17:12, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 18/06/10 15:00, Sam Spilsbury wrote: What happens if applications have more than 4 or 5 indicators? We'll have to think about that :-) Suggestions? Show the ones that most recently changed status? I like how the Unity launcher solves the

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-07-07 Thread Diego Moya
On 24 June 2010 00:28, Apoorva Sharma appi2...@gmail.com wrote: To get around these problems, I have come up with the following idea. ... If this is implemented, then all the windicators could have copies of them already in the panel. For example, not only would rhythmbox have a

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-07-07 Thread Apoorva Sharma
On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com wrote: I think you've just described the rationale for the new Ubuntu panel menus (Sound-, Network-, Me-menus). So what you're suggesting would be akin to dismiss the windicator idea and have all windows notifications centralized in

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
should not be broken if they did not exist. Let's not bring to the title bar the same historical abuse of the notification area. :) ... Good point. I've just added this. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators?action=diffrev2=20rev1=19 - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Benstead wrote on 17/06/10 20:20: On 17 June 2010 15:58, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com mailto:m...@canonical.com wrote: ... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators ... So... what's the status for the Gimp and F-spot mockups

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/06/10 19:42, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Do you need to interact with them during alt-tab? Remember that your screen is grabbed and you are busy finding windows, not tweaking them. I think, if we're going to expose them, we should enable them to be interactive in order to keep them faithful to

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-23 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 18/06/10 19:42, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Do you need to interact with them during alt-tab? Remember that your screen is grabbed and you are busy finding windows, not tweaking them. I think, if we're going to expose them,

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-23 Thread Apoorva Sharma
Hi, NOTE: I tried to post this earlier, but I might not have been properly subscribed, so this may or may not be a duplicate. -- Sorry, this is my first time using a launchpad mailing list. First of all, I really like the idea of window status indicators. It could be an extremely useful feature.

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/06/10 15:00, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Yes, perhaps show them at 1:1 scale as emblems on the window previews, whatever the underlying window scale is for the reveal / alt-tab. Mark I would imagine with 24x24 icons you're going to have enough room for about 4 of them on each window

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Conscious User
We'll have to think about that :-) Suggestions? Show the ones that most recently changed status? I think that would introduce an unpredictability factor that a lot of users wouldn't like. Like it happens with the panel, I think we should consider that even without the space problem there is

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Luke Benstead
On 18 June 2010 16:25, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com wrote: We'll have to think about that :-) Suggestions? Show the ones that most recently changed status? I think that would introduce an unpredictability factor that a lot of users wouldn't like. Like it happens with the

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Akshat Jain
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Luke Benstead kaz...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2010 16:25, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com wrote: We'll have to think about that :-) Suggestions? Show the ones that most recently changed status? I think that would introduce an unpredictability

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Conscious User
erm...Windicator Priorities? I personally prefer not having to choose when there's excess. I'm in favor of not allowing excess, period. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On 6/18/10, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 18/06/10 15:00, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Yes, perhaps show them at 1:1 scale as emblems on the window previews, whatever the underlying window scale is for the reveal / alt-tab. Mark I would imagine with 24x24 icons you're going to have

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
have now (mostly) finished a specification for windicators, with a few examples. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Conscious User
With help from Ted Gould of the DX team, I have now (mostly) finished a specification for windicators, with a few examples. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators Nice work. I don't know if you simply consider this too obvious, but I think there should be a guideline recommending

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Window indicators, or windicators, are menus that appear at the trailing end of a window’s title bar, or in the panel when the window is maximized. Application developers can use windicators for reflecting status, and allowing change of status, for the item or items presented in the window.

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Conscious User
So far, these just seem to be menus, but with an optional icon instead of text. So I have to ask: Why don't these belong in the regular application menu bar? guess The windicators will also be able to use the icons to show status, like panel indicators do. /guess

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Dylan McCall
/archives/333 Mark blogged about. ... With help from Ted Gould of the DX team, I have now (mostly) finished a specification for windicators, with a few examples. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators Oh, nice! Thanks for doing this. I am still confused about the exact scope of Windicators

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Luke Benstead
/archives/333 Mark blogged about. ... With help from Ted Gould of the DX team, I have now (mostly) finished a specification for windicators, with a few examples. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators Hmm... here is a quote from Mark in an earlier thread that I started: For designing indicators

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Luke Benstead
Hmm... here is a quote from Mark in an earlier thread that I started: For designing indicators, ask yourself: - what is the *status* I am conveying, and - what options are there to manipulate that status? If you don't have both, especially the status, don't use an indicator. Use a

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Omer Akram
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 11:13 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: (And a quick note about Evolution: 2.30 has evolution-express. Try evolution --express from the command line. It's used in Meego and it is awesome). Express mode will be used in Maverick UNE (expectedly).[1]

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-28 Thread dani planas armangue
El vie, 28-05-2010 a las 03:35 +0200, Frederik Nnaji escribió: Hey there Oscar, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 19:04, Oscar RdG oscar...@gmail.com wrote: [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators/DanielsWindicators?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=une_windicators_max.jpg

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-28 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:59, Oscar RdG oscar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! That is Dani's mockup. He put together on the panel the window controls, window title and window menu at the same time. I just wanted to point out that the original idea that Mark wrote about [1] was to combine title

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-27 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Hey there Oscar, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 19:04, Oscar RdG oscar...@gmail.com wrote: [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators/DanielsWindicators?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=une_windicators_max.jpg Please explain if you may.. : how does this mockup honor the planned introduction

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Launi
The mockups look awesome, excuse me if this is off-topic but I wanted to comment on the windicators themselves. I find the saved/unsaved windicator is confusing. Can someone describe the projected behavior? My questions is this: if multiple documents are open does it reflect the state of the

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-19 Thread daniel planas
). On the wiki you will find the new mockups and old ones. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators/DanielsWindicators#preview (wiki) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators/DanielsWindicators?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=une_windicators.jpg (Light normal) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-19 Thread Oscar RdG
controls + window menu]. That way, it will look cleaner. Cheers [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/Windicators/DanielsWindicators?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=une_windicators_max.jpg On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:21 PM, daniel planas daniplana...@gmail.comwrote: Hello again, I'm glad they liked

[Ayatana] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-18 Thread dani planas armangue
hello, some of you probably know my previous work, for others I am unknown. In any case I see that here there is much talk and nothing else, begin to work seriously. why I realizdo my first ideas that you can find on the wiki and the first icons. hello, some of you probably know my previous

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread David Siegel
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16/05/10 08:17, Akshat Jain wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/05/10 07:45, akshat jain wrote: But what will happen to Windicators when I minimize windows You

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 17/05/10 09:50, David Siegel wrote: Windicators would naturally appear in the alt-tab preview, as the preview is a complete representation of the window including content and window decorations. Are you thinking that we would make them larger or somehow emphasize them? Yes, perhaps show

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Schoof
the automatically-generated windicators (as window decorations) would be was to small in the preview to be of any real use to most users. Maybe either emlemized over the preview, or under the preview name? Perhaps the same could be done when zoomed out in gnome-shell/gnome 3. On May 17, 2010 5:59

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:59, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 17/05/10 09:50, David Siegel wrote: Windicators would naturally appear in the alt-tab preview, as the preview is a complete representation of the window including content and window decorations. Are you thinking

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:47, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting idea but I am not sure I grasp the real usability application for it. What point exactly would seeing the application indicators large have? well, if you need to ask like that, check:

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Schoof
Somewhat contrived user story: suppose I have a whole bunch of applications open, and all of them have some sort of audio playing, and all of them have a volume level windicator. If one application starts playing some sound too loud, I can see -- while I'm alt-tabbing -- what the respective sound

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Schoof
Fair point :D I was basing that on Shuttleworth's blog post about windicators, an example given was a volume indicator. Regardless, I feel like anything that is small, used to convey information to the user, and tied to a window should be made larger when the window is thumbnail-ized (better

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-17 Thread Tyler Brainerd
But still, your point stands, and I agree. Another example is when working with a large number of documents, getting a quick view to see if they are all saved/synced with UbuntuOne or DB before logging off for the day. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Alex Schoof alex.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Akshat Jain
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/05/10 07:45, akshat jain wrote: But what will happen to Windicators when I minimize windows You minimise them too. They are specifically status associated with that window - so you won't miss them. But

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 16/05/10 08:17, Akshat Jain wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/05/10 07:45, akshat jain wrote: But what will happen to Windicators when I minimize windows You minimise them too. They are specifically

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Sense Hofstede
On 16 May 2010 14:31, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16/05/10 08:17, Akshat Jain wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/05/10 07:45, akshat jain wrote: But what will happen to Windicators when I minimize windows You minimise

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Akshat Jain
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Sense Hofstede qe...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16 May 2010 14:31, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16/05/10 08:17, Akshat Jain wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/05/10 07:45, akshat jain wrote:

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Sense Hofstede
On 16 May 2010 16:21, Akshat Jain ssj6akshat1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Sense Hofstede qe...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16 May 2010 14:31, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16/05/10 08:17, Akshat Jain wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Sense Hofstede
On 16 May 2010 16:37, Akshat Jain ssj6akshat1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Sense Hofstede qe...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16 May 2010 16:21, Akshat Jain ssj6akshat1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Sense Hofstede qe...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 16

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 08:54, Gavin Langdon puttabu...@gmail.com wrote: If this were the case standard widgets could take priority if they're close to the edge (although a good gui designer shouldn't have anything too close to the edge anyway) that part in brackets is what i'm interested in

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 00:11, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 04/05/10 09:03, Sam Spilsbury wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Humphrey humphre...@gmail.com wrote: That's going to mess with user's expectations when they click on a black space and start resizing a

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 16/05/10 16:51, Frederik Nnaji wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 00:11, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 04/05/10 09:03, Sam Spilsbury wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Humphrey humphre...@gmail.com mailto:humphre...@gmail.com

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-09 Thread Omer Akram
They are on the applications window border so when window is minimized they go with it. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM, akshat jain ssj6akshat1...@gmail.comwrote: But what will happen to Windicators when I minimize windows ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 06/05/10 18:16, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: On 4 May 2010 06:32, Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com wrote: I have some more questions. What will happen with windicators if the window controls are configured back to the right of the window? Will they be swapped to the top left corner, or

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-06 Thread Scott Ritchie
On 05/03/2010 05:22 AM, Roth Robert wrote: Otherwise I like the idea to use the right side of the titlebar to show progress status, app status, share icons, etc. Does this need to be on the right side of the title bar? It seems like the location of the windicators could easily be themable,

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-06 Thread Paolo Sammicheli
Alle 08:30 del 6/5/2010, Scott Ritchie ha scritto: On 05/03/2010 05:22 AM, Roth Robert wrote: Otherwise I like the idea to use the right side of the titlebar to show progress status, app status, share icons, etc. Does this need to be on the right side of the title bar? It seems like

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Gavin Langdon
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Luke Morton luke.mor...@internode.on.netwrote: Ambiance has a 1px border on the left and right--I don't think that's enough to negate the case for a resize grip. As to your example, I find resizing the terminal to be particularly frustrating. The tiny border

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Benjamin Humphrey
Meant to send this to everyone but ended up sending it to Alex only: Alex, Ha! The theme I use, and the new default themes, certainly make it very hard to resize windows. It appears there is only 1px x 1px grab area in Lucid. There's a bug report somewhere that I was reading a few weeks ago...

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Benjamin Humphrey
Of course the simple fix is to just add in a few pixels of virtual, invisible grab space around the corner of the window. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Humphrey humphre...@gmail.comwrote: Meant to send this to everyone but ended up sending it to Alex only: Alex, Ha! The theme I

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Greg K Nicholson
On 4 May 2010 05:48, Tyler Brainerd tylerbrain...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I believe Mark gave some pretty clear reasons why. They want the upper right to have a particular analogy, just like they want the upper left. Right is for notifications, volume, brightness, and similar controls, the

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread David Hamm
The Shut Down (etc.) menu is in the top-right. I understand it was put there by analogy with the windows' close buttons. Should it now be in the top-left? lol, oh how right you are. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/05/10 09:03, Sam Spilsbury wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Humphrey humphre...@gmail.com wrote: Of course the simple fix is to just add in a few pixels of virtual, invisible grab space around the corner of the window. That's going to mess with user's

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/05/10 06:30, Luke Morton wrote: Ambiance has a 1px border on the left and right--I don't think that's enough to negate the case for a resize grip. As to your example, I find resizing the terminal to be particularly frustrating. Yes, this is a real problem in Ambiance and Radiance. I'd

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Luke Morton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 23:10 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 04/05/10 06:30, Luke Morton wrote: Ambiance has a 1px border on the left and right--I don't think that's enough to negate the case for a resize grip. As to your example, I find resizing the terminal to be particularly

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, In terms of the sound indicators id like if all the sound levels could be controlled from the main sound indicator rather than having 2 sound level controls. So when an application that uses sound starts playing, another sound level bar is added with a description above it. Just an idea but

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 03/05/10 13:22, Roth Robert wrote: Another tiny detail I have a problem with... having progress status indicators on the top right side and having the transient status message appear on the bottom left side seems strange... do the status messages have to appear on the bottom left? Until now

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Roth Robert
I did not consider the toolbar being there as a problem, just like there was no problem with notifyOSD notifications appearing on the top of window controls, because when the user hovers the mouse over the notification, it becomes almost invisible, and it sits on top of the toolbar just for a few

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 03/05/10 13:22, Roth Robert wrote: Another tiny detail I have a problem with... having progress status indicators on the top right side and having the transient status message appear on the bottom left side seems

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Roth Robert
This depends from my point of view in the way 10.10 will integrate Gnome-Shell ... because if it will be the main window manager, than only mutter has to be supported as far as I know, because GS uses only mutter, and there is currently no possibility of changing the window manager, and there is

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Tyler Brainerd
Which is sort of my point. It doesn't seem to me like Ubuntu is ever planning on using gnome-shell, or they wouldn't be duplicating work on the exact same areas of the desktop. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Roth Robert evf...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, I'm not a Gnome Shell fan either, I like

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread David Hamm
Rather then adding complexity, windicators Indicators are icons, different applications have different icons. http://meson.us/x/gnome/Nautilus.jpg --assume distro polish of course All the app needs is an minimize icon/close icon. The rest of the design is up to the app designer, who could

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Dylan McCall
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tyler Brainerd tylerbrain...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree. I think it will only be good for the user if we have consistent rules in the windicator area. Many mans can be moved their for simplification of control. I'm thinking we'll see a huge explosion of using

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread David Hamm
I disagree. I think it will only be good for the user if we have consistent rules in the windicator area. Okay, I think I see what your getting at. This is good, and consistent rules are good at a programing level, however what you see directly in-front of you is also art, and there are places

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Diego Moya
On 3 May 2010 12:06, Dylan McCall wrote: On the other hand, it may be interesting to explore shading as a complete replacement to minimizing, though there's probably something else to be done. If my history is right, earlier GUIs did shading instead of having a window list to minimize to, but

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Tyler Brainerd
To treat UI as art before usability is the worst idea ever. good, rational, usability focused design is target number one. Otherwise we will end up with exactly what we used to have in the notification area: chaos, dependent on the relative designs of app designers with different ideas of what is

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread David Hamm
feel free to make up your mind. - my brain is in quantum flux. rules, like having icons for everything, ex. nautilus usability, like only having a home button on an iphone. Sorry for destroying the thread! :D I will try to proceed more quietly. btw. can't wait for ff4, it couldn't come soon

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Diego Moya
On 3 May 2010 22:14, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: Interesting idea and I'll reserve final judgement till I see it in action, or some clearer definitions of what would go into the windicator space. I have a few thinking points, however: I have some more questions. What will happen with windicators

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Tyler Brainerd
Actually I believe Mark gave some pretty clear reasons why. They want the upper right to have a particular analogy, just like they want the upper left. Right is for notifications, volume, brightness, and similar controls, the left is for menus, opening and closing, and other window management. It

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Luke Morton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 15:14 +1200, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: - Would removing the status bar get rid of the grab handle for resizing windows? I believe it would. It should, however, still be possible for developers to add resize handles using gtk.Window.begin_resize_drag.

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Launi
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Luke Morton luke.mor...@internode.on.netwrote: I believe it would. It should, however, still be possible for developers to add resize handles using gtk.Window.begin_resize_drag. Yes, but it's crazy to ask every developer to implement resizing. That's * why* we

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Luke Morton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 01:13 -0400, Alex Launi wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Luke Morton luke.mor...@internode.on.net wrote: I believe it would. It should, however, still be possible for developers to add resize handles using gtk.Window.begin_resize_drag.