Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-23 Thread Allan Caeg
Thanks for the Feedback, Karl. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > applet. Branding is just that important for a default GNOME setup. > > Who is branding important to? the desktop? the user? the distributor? > > Why do you feel its so important? This is very important for d

Re: [Ayatana] Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

2010-06-23 Thread Jarlath Reidy
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Luke Benstead wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's this week's bug bear of mine: > http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6311/as7ob3.png > > ... > 2. happens. And 90% of the time, a killall gnome-panel gets it working > again. Surely Gnome panel should attempt to reload it a

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] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-06-23 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:35, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Diego Moya wrote: > > I like somebody's proposal of being able to drag the closed panel icon > > left and right to change the slide without needing to open the menu > > first. > > That would still make it inconsistent with all the other m

Re: [Ayatana] The Future of Nautilus

2010-06-23 Thread David Hamm
wow, they really went to town... ___ 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 should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-23 Thread Conscious User
> A Twitter client is what I had in mind when I specified that the API > should let applications attach a count to the application item itself > (...) > If there are multiple accounts, then it might show a separate item for > each account: > (...) > It might also have separate items for @replies,

[Ayatana] The Future of Nautilus

2010-06-23 Thread Frederik Nnaji
It may be interesting to some readers of this ML to know what Nautilus is going to incorporate for us in the future: http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/20/the-future-of-nautilus/ greetings Nnaji ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Pos

Re: [Ayatana] Me Menu - Review

2010-06-23 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:46, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 21/06/10 10:42, James Putt wrote: > > I agree colour is significant. I was considering that the top menu by > convention is monochromatic with certain colours having a particular > meaning, and how having different icons in the drop do

Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 08/06/10 20:28: >... > Gwibber 2.30 in Lucid adds user-specific entries to the > Messaging Menu when a new broadcast is received. When > you click on any of those entries, the Gwibber window > simply pops up, and nothing specifi

[Ayatana] Connecting with the weather-indicator project

2010-06-23 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Ayatana, So this cycle for UNE we've been using indicator-datetime, which as many people have noticed does not have support for weather like the old panel applet did. This is for a few reasons, mostly because weather isn't really a time and date thing and it doesn't really fit as a system-indicato

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-23 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Mark Shuttleworth 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, we shoul

Re: [Ayatana] Start Menu Concept

2010-06-23 Thread David Hamm
One of the best parts of labels is that they help separate groups of items, which the different background color, icon size's and text color try to do. So in this case labels would only help to identify the group at large to which the folder icons I feel already do a sufficient job. I would also li

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/06/10 13:18, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On 2010-06-18, Vishnoo wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 23:34 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >> >>> On 31/03/10 18:51, Jim Rorie wrote: >>> From a bigger picture frame of reference, I was mulling a global "do no disturb" state.

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] Me Menu - Review

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/06/10 10:42, James Putt wrote: > I agree colour is significant. I was considering that the top menu by > convention is monochromatic with certain colours having a particular > meaning, and how having different icons in the drop down menu to the > icons representing the menu would play out. I

Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/06/10 15:04, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > What GlobalMenu does, is to detect what the user is currently looking > at, then afford the respective controls for its manipulation. > The Sound Menu can also behave like this: > * Probe for focused media apps > * assign the most accessible volume fader t

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing - where does the problem lie?

2010-06-23 Thread Philipp Wendler
Hello, Am 23.06.2010 09:20, schrieb Vishnoo: I'v never found the need to resize firefox& evolution [always maximized] or the various prefs dialogue windows[which have the right size]. Don't forget that there are users that do not always maximize their windows. This will be even more common

Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-06-23 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:50, Diego Moya wrote: > On 22 June 2010 12:31, Diego Moya wrote: > > What I suggested is having volume > > sliders in each application* > > * for multimedia applications that include media-player controls, that is. > i think the criterium should be whether or not the r

Re: [Ayatana] Start Menu Concept

2010-06-23 Thread Jarlath Reidy
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:18 AM, David Hamm wrote: > I'll match your quote, "This is what I imagine purgatory to be. A vortex of > eternal clicking." > > with a quote, "imo, id have just applications and recent with a side arrow > to expand either, knocking out the places when expanded." > Expan

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing - where does the problem lie?

2010-06-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:33 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > And now, I'll bring your attention back to everyone's favourite bug, > lp:160311 (“Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is > difficult”). > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/160311 While this is a wildly deb

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing

2010-06-23 Thread Tyler Brainerd
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, David Callé wrote: > > > Perhaps we could improve on one of these methods and make it more > > obvious to users. > > > > I might be wrong but I think that a command involving using the mouse > and the keyboard at the same time will never be obvious to users. > >

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing

2010-06-23 Thread David Callé
> Perhaps we could improve on one of these methods and make it more > obvious to users. > I might be wrong but I think that a command involving using the mouse and the keyboard at the same time will never be obvious to users. David Callé ___ Mailing