[Ayatana-dev] Unity Trunk Changes

2011-06-09 Thread Neil Jagdish Patel
Hey, A few changes inside Unity's trunk: Shared Library We now build a libunity-shared-4.0.so from the shared/ directory. It as installed headers as well as a pkgconfig file. You'll need to build Unity from scratch if things start misbehaving. `make release` A new target (mostly

Re: [Ayatana-dev] Unity Trunk Changes

2011-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:46 +0100, Neil Jagdish Patel wrote: **NOTE** I'd really like it if we used the --author flag when we merge branches for other people i.e.: bzr commit -msome applications always start with maximized windows --author=Marco Biscaro marcobiscaro2...@gmail.com

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 06/09/2011 03:02 AM, GonzO wrote: But the most important problem is that the distinctions between different sorts of users are: it's just a big red herring. A UI that makes sense and is convenient is*not* specific to one's level of experience or amount of use. Things either make sense or

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 06/09/2011 11:21 AM, James Jenner wrote: Usability is about making the interface easy to work overall, not for specific instances. There are already somewhat varying definitions out there, no need to make things up on the go. All the common takes on what usability is render your

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 09. juni 2011 11:21, James Jenner wrote: I would be really interested to know what is considered the average user or what the targeted users are and how often they switch apps, or need to check the time or need to check performance based on a percentage of their total weekly usage. Then we

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread Tony Pursell
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 20:02 -0500, GonzO wrote: Evenin'. I'm curious if your talking personally or your speaking about people in general. Both. I was, for a good number of years (and in some respects, still am) a sysadmin. I fixed people's computers and networks and then taught

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 09. juni 2011 12:56, Tony Pursell wrote: I cannot understand the desire to get rid of the panel. With people arguing whether a clock is needed and, so on. For me a panel is handy place to keep things I know I want quick access to. Right. We do have the panel, and I don't think it would be a

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread James Jenner
On 9 June 2011 20:06, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/09/2011 11:21 AM, James Jenner wrote: Usability is about making the interface easy to work overall, not for specific instances. There are already somewhat varying definitions out there, no need to make things up on the go.

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread James Jenner
There is no need to do anything special to support specific instances as long as the system is flexible enough to allow the user to adjust it to their needs. Personally I like flexibility, I'm just aware that such flexibility may have a cost. Hopefully there is no or limited cost and it

[Ayatana] Stereoscopic 3D on Ubuntu (or any Linux)

2011-06-09 Thread Swapnil Chitnis
Now even in Windows 8, we are expected to have 3D technology for watching 3D movies. Now, we have to take Ubuntu Linux to this. I have knowledge on this topic. Is anyone interested in development of this as a project? ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread GonzO
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/09/2011 03:02 AM, GonzO wrote: Regarding intuitive: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg01963.html Talk about a post that misses the point of the word. Intuitive, WRT to design, means easy to learn or able to be

[Ayatana] Do we have Python libs for writing Unity lenses?

2011-06-09 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I suppose the subject says it all... I'm looking for a Python library to write Unity lensens, some documentation and preferably a tutorial if it isn't obvious. Any good leads? Thanks. Jo-Erlend Schinstad ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Stereoscopic 3D on Ubuntu (or any Linux)

2011-06-09 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 09. juni 2011 18:18, Swapnil Chitnis wrote: Now even in Windows 8, we are expected to have 3D technology for watching 3D movies. Now, we have to take Ubuntu Linux to this. I have knowledge on this topic. Is anyone interested in development of this as a project? Wouldn't that be done in

Re: [Ayatana] Stereoscopic 3D on Ubuntu (or any Linux)

2011-06-09 Thread Spike Burch
that's a driver level thing in addition to the applications. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com wrote: On 09. juni 2011 18:18, Swapnil Chitnis wrote: Now even in Windows 8, we are expected to have 3D technology for watching 3D movies. Now, we have

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread GonzO
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jonathan Meek shrouded.cl...@gmail.com wrote: I'd just like to quickly point out: You say Unity is essentially telling power users they're wrong (sorry if I paraphrase, limited time). Actually, my complaint was more directed at Lion and particuarly Gnome 3.

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-09 Thread GonzO
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:21 AM, James Jenner james.g.jen...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 June 2011 18:22, Adrian Maier syra...@googlemail.com wrote: The current incarnation of Unity tries to enforce a simplified environment where the ui designer decides what is useful/appropriate for the user to see

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~mterry/indicator-session/gtk3 into lp:indicator-session

2011-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
Review: Approve -- https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-session/gtk3/+merge/62515 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:indicator-session. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana-commits Post to :

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~mterry/indicator-session/gtk3 into lp:indicator-session

2011-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
The proposal to merge lp:~mterry/indicator-session/gtk3 into lp:indicator-session has been updated. Status: Needs review = Approved For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-session/gtk3/+merge/62515 --

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~sargentd/indicator-datetime/fix-spelling into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
Review: Approve Wow, I'm a little scared that Lintian can catch spelling errors. Does not bode well for any software I write getting packaged for Debian/Ubuntu ;-) -- https://code.launchpad.net/~sargentd/indicator-datetime/fix-spelling/+merge/63499 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to