Calum Benson wrote: > On 13 Aug 2008, at 09:49, Jedy Wang wrote: > > >> Hi Calum, >> >> I notice that the title for the Desklets entry of the Accessories menu >> is different from 2008.05 and GNOME community but is not marked. I >> just >> want to make sure if the title *is* Desklets but not gDesklets. >> > > I was originally proposing "Desklets", so it should have been > marked... the HIG recommends against using names of the form "GNOME > Something" or "gSomething" on the menus. > Speaking of Desklets, my first impression was that the raised circles on the background image almost look clickable and since the sweep of the "comet tail"draws the user's eye to that corner, I'll bet those circles will be clicked by at least a few opensolaris newcomers.
I've never liked the two panel design since, especially on popular wide screen laptops, display real estate is already limited in this dimension. But then if you're going to have two panels, the separation of function does make some sense. Do we have any data on how many percent of users use 4 or more workspaces? (especially those migrating from competing OSs which only have 1 workspace) Would compiz handle a triangle/pyramid workspace surface instead of a cube so we can have 3 workspaces and leave a bit more room for the window switcher applet? I wonder if it would make sense to put the window selector widget just to the left of the "show desktop" icon? It looks like there is a bit of room and window selector has a small icon. > However, from the CD Space Analysis discussion that's currently > happening on indiana-discuss, it sounds like we might be dropping > gdesklets from the LiveCD anyway. So rather than worry about such a > minor change for something that might be disappearing into a > repository, I'll just change it back to "gDesklets" in the spec. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > > >> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 17:41 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: >> >>> Since we didn't quite get around to implementing the UI spec for >>> 2008.05, we've recently been tweaking it a bit for 2008.11 (and have >>> actually assigned people to make it happen this time...) >>> >>> <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/uispecs/indiana-uispec/> >>> >>> Comments welcome... it hasn't really changed too much since what we'd >>> planned for 2008.05, bar a bit more panel reshuffling (to try and >>> achieve a functional split of "actions and status" on top and >>> "windows >>> and workspaces" on the bottom), and some minor changes to accommodate >>> upstream changes in GNOME 2.24. >>> >>> Cheeri, >>> Calum. >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080813/d76e4546/attachment.html>
