Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Serious issues

2011-11-06 Thread Remco
might be an acceptable solution, too. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Music lens - Available for Purchase

2011-10-12 Thread Remco
. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Session management in the dash

2011-10-12 Thread Remco
into other OS's from the Session Lens too. That would be seriously awesome. With current boot times it would really be a matter of clicking a button, waiting a few secs, and you're in Fedora. I imagine it's quite easy to implement too, just by changing the saved default of Grub. -- Remco

Re: [Ayatana] Getting Started

2011-06-03 Thread Remco
, and I would go to Google before starting Help. That's why it's such a great idea to shove Help into their face the first time they use the computer. It may be annoying at first, but curiosity will take over and they'll start exploring, for example, the Tips tricks section. -- Remco

Re: [Ayatana] Getting Started

2011-06-03 Thread Remco
if it's not done in time, or the results are not what we hoped for. What do you think? -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

[Ayatana] Getting Started

2011-06-02 Thread Remco
as it is, is that it is English only. The articles should be fed into Launchpad Translations. Yelp is already in there, but it's only the program itself, not the articles. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Re: Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-05-23 Thread Remco
the virtual machine / VNC / quadruple monitor edge case by making the top menu bar twice as thick when we detect the absence of a monitor edge. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Re: Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-05-19 Thread Remco
a little short on the implementation details, but at least your concern is addressed by this. I've maxed out my mouse acceleration settings, which gives me the ability to move from edge to edge in one movement. The default for this needs to be reevaluated. -- Remco

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-04-14 Thread Remco
? An interactive scrollbar is the worst way to scroll in touch UIs. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] What to do with the menubar on non-full screened windows.

2011-03-31 Thread Remco
of the (WUXGA) screen while not losing the precision in slow movements. Maybe this setting should automatically adjust to screen size? -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-17 Thread Remco
. Also, now your icon menu and File menu are located next to each other and have the same item at the end: Close. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-15 Thread Remco
that a small team with face-to-face meetings can be beneficial to design, but a problem lies in communication and collaboration between the team and Ayatana. I have no idea how this secret discussion lead to the closure of my bug. -- Remco [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/717450

Re: [Ayatana] Zooming the Icon on the launcher (like Docky does)

2011-03-14 Thread Remco
. The patent can be avoided by using the folding technique instead of magnifying. So instead of magnification following the cursor, the unfolding follows the cursor. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Remco
break. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Remco
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: This may not be a good idea from a compatibility point of view. Many websites expect sans-serif to mean Arial, serif to mean Times New Roman

Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

2011-02-01 Thread Remco
still work. The justification for buttons on the right is that LTR languages read from left to right. The same could be said for window closing buttons, so why not put those on the right, too? -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Compiz close-buttons on expose

2010-11-27 Thread Remco
around re-focus them to find them. I'd appreciate a close button too, for the purpose of closing many windows. You can try out this behaviour right now by enabling the Scale addons. You can bind closing the window to the middle mouse button. -- Remco

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-14 Thread Remco
: in fact i'd say it almost a upgrade deciding factor for vista to 7 You'll like Compiz Grid. I think Frederik's idea is simply a mouse interface to Compiz Grid. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

[Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-08 Thread Remco
. -- Remco attachment: resize-widget-in-titlebar.png___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-08 Thread Remco
such a border on the bottom! -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-16 Thread Remco
the network. A slightly better solution would be to provide a button or a widget that allows you to enable the network, or choose an accesspoint right from within Firefox. That allows you to fix the problem right where it occurs. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https

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

2010-08-07 Thread Remco
seems to be that users don't expect Writer and Calc to be the same application. Instead of getting rid of a menu which would trigger this bug more often, it would be better to actually make them behave as separate applications. -- Remco ___ Mailing list

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Remco
' such as I am busy for Busy. -- Remco attachment: MeMenuMock2.png___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Remco
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:51, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: I also changed the Custom Status menu entry into a text box. That makes it even more clear that the top text box is for social networking, and not setting status. This changes/simplifies the way you set custom statuses: you first

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Remco
the broadcasting text box to the messaging menu. The MeMenu was for managing your presence, not for actual messaging. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread Remco
for that last one, depending on the setting. Now, that's clean! -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Redesigning the Ubuntu mouse cursor for simple notification of app attention

2010-06-17 Thread Remco
with it. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Replace Minimize with Push Down

2010-05-22 Thread Remco
aren't maximized, i.e. Mac behaviour. Minimize is useful if you don't want to use the window at all for some time. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-16 Thread Remco
. I've actually had people freak out by how quick I get through that navigation, because they had no clue you could do that. Still, it's a problem that needs to be solved. A single click setting should take effect for the whole system, not just Nautilus. -- Remco

Re: [Ayatana] Instant-messaging as an indicator menu

2010-05-14 Thread Remco
be introduced, so you can have a couple of contacts that appear in the menu before searching. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Instant-messaging as an indicator menu

2010-05-14 Thread Remco
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 18:11, Jeremy Nickurak jer...@nickurak.ca wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:07, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: In the Contact List of Empathy, if you start typing the name of the one you are looking for, a search box will appear. You'll end up selecting the entry

Re: [Ayatana] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-13 Thread Remco
than helps, I'd say it requires a lot of thinking ahead. I think single click should not be default, but there is one way of improving single selection in that mode: put a checkbox before each file and folder. This also makes it easier to do multi selection in any mode. -- Remco

Re: [Ayatana] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-13 Thread Remco
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:07, Alex Lourie djay...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: I think single click should not be default, but there is one way of improving single selection in that mode: put a checkbox before each file and folder

Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed minimize to tray ?

2010-05-05 Thread Remco
and the conversations window. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed minimize to tray ?

2010-05-05 Thread Remco
over the icon, the icon itself is the mini player! So your lower panel becomes a row of mini applications. [1] http://www.uxpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/windows-media-player-taskbar-thumbnail.jpg -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-25 Thread Remco
list of groups, still require logging out and in again. But there's no fundamental reason for a reboot. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More

Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great (branched from Farewell to the notification area)

2010-04-22 Thread Remco
don't bite each other. You could have workspace tabs in the X and Y dimension, and also workspace layers in the Z dimension. The Z dimension would seem to me as more of a power user feature. But it lends itself to another awesome 3D visualization: Windows Vista's Flip 3D! [2] -- Remco [1] http

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-03-31 Thread Remco
. -- Remco ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp