Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 22/04/10 21:26, Martin Owens wrote: Hello Mark, On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 08:49 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: It's a good point. The workspaces experience has languished, and I'd like for us to climb in and improve it substantially. At the moment, we do a half-hearted job - we ship

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

2010-04-23 Thread David Siegel
Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer to organize some of what's been said on a wiki page, or Google Doc/Wave, or something? Otherwise these ideas will likely never escape this thread. David On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Robin Anderson afisy...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great

2010-04-23 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 10:27 +0200, Conscious User wrote: I'd welcome a discussion about how we could make workspaces *great*. If we can do that, then we would make more of them. And your contribution above is a useful start: great workspaces give you easy access to some apps regardless of

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:53 +0200, Conscious User wrote: That's true, we haven't done as good a job of communication in the past as we could have. But we're working on improving it. For this issue yesterday there were posts on design.canonical.com, markshuttleworth.com, this mailing list,

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

2010-04-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:14 +0100, David Siegel wrote: Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer to organize some of what's been said on a wiki page, or Google Doc/Wave, or something? Otherwise these ideas will likely never escape this thread. David There you go

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

2010-04-23 Thread Luke Benstead
On 23 April 2010 11:10, Vishnoo drkv...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:14 +0100, David Siegel wrote: Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer to organize some of what's been said on a wiki page, or Google Doc/Wave, or something? Otherwise these ideas will

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
Plus, as I pointed out several months ago, this is a HUGE security hole. Passwords should only be given in response to a user initiated operation. Asynchronous dialogs that ask for passwords are a very bad precedent for a secure O/S. Best we get those finger-swipe gadgets working, then

Re: [Ayatana] Tagging in Nautilus

2010-04-23 Thread Diego Moya
On 23 April 2010 06:19, Frederik Nnaji wrote: how about tagging files and folders in nautilus? i wouldn't have to move them around much anymore, if i could attach tags to them. imagine you don't have to move your files around physically anymore, you just navigate them via tagging.. on a fs

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Conscious User
Hrm. whaaat.. Design Communication is essential for the developer community, and for the designers to layout the future plans , to co-ordinate the design implementation. This part is improving and the design team's blog is the start of such improvements. This should not be of concern for

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

2010-04-23 Thread Roth Robert
I have just been looking at the gnome-shell wikis, and I have found some mockups for suggested window management. I think the idea is quite good, could replace the workspaces. Someone has already sent a mail with a mockup similar to these, but this is a bit more detailed... check them out.

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

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler Brainerd
The blog I made reference too will address many of the proposed solutions here, albeit in a critical manner to root out good solutions. I can archive the conversation in a shared google doc, with permission from everyone involved. On Apr 23, 2010, at 2:14 AM, David Siegel

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

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler Brainerd
Ignore that last blank one. Thanks for making the wiki! On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Vishnoo drkv...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:14 +0100, David Siegel wrote: Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer to organize some of what's been said on a wiki

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

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler Brainerd
Silly iPod touch keeps goofing up my email and sending before I finish. Here's the poll: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/workspaces-and-how-we-use-them.html On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Luke Benstead kaz...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 April 2010 14:17, Roth Robert evf...@gmail.com wrote: I have

Re: [Ayatana] Tagging in Nautilus

2010-04-23 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 13:58, Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 April 2010 06:19, Frederik Nnaji wrote: how about tagging files and folders in nautilus? i wouldn't have to move them around much anymore, if i could attach tags to them. imagine you don't have to move your files around

Re: [Ayatana] Compact Menu View

2010-04-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:36 -0700, Eric Pritchett wrote: I'd like to suggest having a Compact Menu View mode enabled by default for most windows/apps. The thinking is if a user only uses the File, Edit, View, Help, etc 5 times out of 100 and uses the icons below it 95/100 times then wouldn't

Re: [Ayatana] Compact Menu View

2010-04-23 Thread Sohail Mirza
How about a compact menu that is accompanied by a search bar, not dissimilar from the Start Menu to be found in Windows Vista/7? Navigate the menus if you know where a command is to be found, otherwise just start typing the name. This could be aided by some mechanism for then informing the user

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~cjcurran/indicator-sound/volume_setting_code_refactor into lp:indicator-sound

2010-04-23 Thread noreply
The proposal to merge lp:~cjcurran/indicator-sound/volume_setting_code_refactor into lp:indicator-sound has been updated. Status: Needs review = Merged -- https://code.launchpad.net/~cjcurran/indicator-sound/volume_setting_code_refactor/+merge/23953 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~cjcurran/indicator-sound/treat-all-volumes-as-mono into lp:indicator-sound

2010-04-23 Thread Conor Curran
Conor Curran has proposed merging lp:~cjcurran/indicator-sound/treat-all-volumes-as-mono into lp:indicator-sound. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) Essentially this branch refactors all volumes cached to be reduced to one channel. To do this the