Re: [Ayatana] RFC: How to handle wine apps in Unity?

2011-10-04 Thread Alex Launi
It's probably worth while to CC some wine developers on this. It may be good to work this out with them, because if there's no current way- we can work one out. -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Dash search vs Alt+F2 in 11.10

2011-09-22 Thread Alex Launi
Can someone explain why we think we want the ability to run rm directly from unity anyway? Is there a single person who wants this functionality who doesn't have a terminal open all of the time anyway? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Launi
I love this. It really just makes alt-tab a keybinding for features we already have. Very clean, very simple, and enhances the idioms we've already started developing. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

[Ayatana] Call for testing: Unity multitouch gestures

2011-04-01 Thread Alex Launi
. An Internet connection If you want to take part in this adventure, go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Testing/Multitouch and follow the detailed instructions. Thanks for helping making Ubuntu even better! - -- Alex Launi Canonical Desktop Experience Team -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Ayatana-dev] Soundmenu integration

2010-12-02 Thread Alex Launi
helpful overall, http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html. And for some more sample code, there's a snippet in Acire, or on the web in Launchpad, http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jonobacon/python-snippets/trunk/annotate/head:/dbus/singleinstance.py. Good luck - -- Alex Launi

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Launi
is a good standalone player for when you don't really need a library, but still uses all of the Banshee infrastructure. We need a similar solution for the one-off video case. Perhaps extending Muinshee to play video in a similar way would be a good solution. -- Alex Launi Ubuntu Desktop Experience

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Launi
The proposal to merge lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu has been updated. Commit Message changed to: Add a failing test to test how tarmac handles automatic landing with failing tests -- https://code.launchpad.net/~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure/+merge/40100 Your team

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Launi
The proposal to merge lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu has been updated. Status: Approved = Needs review -- https://code.launchpad.net/~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure/+merge/40100 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:dbusmenu.

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Launi
The proposal to merge lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu has been updated. Status: Needs review = Merged -- https://code.launchpad.net/~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure/+merge/40100 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:dbusmenu.

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Launi
The proposal to merge lp:~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure into lp:dbusmenu has been updated. Status: Merged = Rejected -- https://code.launchpad.net/~alexlauni/dbusmenu/test-failure/+merge/40100 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:dbusmenu.

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-11-03 Thread Alex Launi
and the track metadata. If the controls were not clearly associated with both then this could be a reasonable argument, but the three are all very tightly coupled visually. -- Alex Launi Ubuntu Desktop Experience Team ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

2010-11-02 Thread Alex Launi
It seems like a U1 contacts backend to libfolks would be the most robust approach. -- Alex Launi Ubuntu Desktop Experience Team ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu on the Desktop

2010-11-01 Thread Alex Launi
for maximized and unmaximized windows. I bet the design team could do something up very nicely to make it clear that the indicators weren't part of the window. The edge maybe rounded out at the bottom? -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Launi
it *easier*. It might make sense to do the same thing for both sides though, so you can resize towards the left, or the right. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

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

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Launi
to sleep. Any easy fix to remedy part of the situation would be to remove the Guest session button and move that into the 'Switch from' window. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Launi
should be run as a project. This would probably make adoption outside of Ubuntu easier too, since it gives the projects the appearance of a little bit more separation. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] progress dialog mockups

2010-05-28 Thread Alex Launi
The indicator should probably convey the cumulative progress so you can just flick a glance in the corner and get an idea of the progress without having to click or even move the mouse. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] progress dialog mockups

2010-05-28 Thread Alex Launi
against the design of indicators. What I've proposed is similar to the battery indicator. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

Re: [Ayatana] progress dialog mockups

2010-05-28 Thread Alex Launi
, and disappears when inactive. -- -- Alex Launi ___ 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] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Launi
comings. This looks awesome! But why do we need the dismiss all button? Shouldn't just clicking into white sufficient? Having a button like that will give a lot of users the impression that that's the only way to deselect files, when really it's a kind of inefficient way. -- -- Alex Launi

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

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Launi
their windows around their desktop by grabbing the title bar, so why not reuse that metaphor? The checkbox would be in the corner of this title bar, and it would be a safe area where misclicking wouldn't accidentally open the file. -- -- Alex Launi

Re: [Ayatana] memenu and appmenu

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Launi
. -- -- Alex Launi ___ 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] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Launi
How do you drag multiple files? -- -- Alex Launi ___ 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] Windicators mockups (daniel planas)

2010-05-19 Thread Alex Launi
that's not useful in the window itself, it *is* useful in the alt-tab menu for the case where you've minimized a window but forgot that you were working on something, you can be alerted that you have unsaved work. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https

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

2010-05-13 Thread Alex Launi
a particular task (this is often not what they think they require!) and about providing exactly that to them ^^ Everyone on this list read that phrase an internalize it. That is the single most important statement made on this list, ever. Nicely said, Martin. -- --Alex Launi

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

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Launi
to make the programmed automation doesn't provide a wrong result. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] File transfer dialog behaviour

2010-05-11 Thread Alex Launi
/introducing_my_gsoc_project/index.html -- -- Alex Launi ___ 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] Sudoku: Let's try a heuristic usability evaluation

2010-05-10 Thread Alex Launi
color, but I think that just one color, instead of the 4 or 5 that are used would be a big improvement. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

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

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Launi
We pretty much already do all of this in Docky. Docky + panel mode is basically the win7 jump list jawn. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

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

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Launi
What's the point of the tear-off functionality? If torn what happens on hover then? -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

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

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
. This critical case is not well supported by the current volume control. Left-click, hold, move cursor down a couple of millimeters, release. Muted. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

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

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
No, it's identical to clicking mute all in two clicks, in one. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

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

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
! So is the answer no? Before this discussion continues, it's essential that we define the problem we are trying to solve.. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
, and are triggered by environment events. Incoming IM sounds, alert noises. Asynchronous streams should be handled by the system, but we should design a means of allowing users to adjust the volume of synchronous streams. -- --Alex Launi

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
said stream from whatever ui. Maybe asynchronous and synchronous weren't the ideal choices. Transient and non-transient? Doesn't really matter, I think the idea is clear enough. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post

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

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
. -- --Alex Launi ___ 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] How do I know when I'm connected to the network successfully?

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Launi
be able to knock it out. I had to do a lot of nm hacking at a job once. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Launi
have a window manager. I don't think window resizing is really an issue, most themes have enough chrome around the window to grab for resizing anyway. Resizing the terminal, which has no status bar, is easy. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-03-31 Thread Alex Launi
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Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera

2010-03-26 Thread Alex Launi
is actually proposing a no controls approach, a different controls approach is being discussed.. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Tooltips

2010-03-23 Thread Alex Launi
that the program is in a transition state of 'connecting'. This is pretty similar to the dots that change color 1-by-1 during start up and shut down. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

2009-11-05 Thread Alex Launi
the difference in the first place, I need to see it when it's not running, and then see it when it's running and be aware of why it's different. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Launi
, and also keep it all in a consistent, and more likely out of the way place. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Launi
It does, although it needs some love. https://launchpad.net/gm-notify -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Launi
I'm not, I'm just learning debian packaging, but Ken Vandine has been involved with gmail-notify, so he may be able to lend a hand getting it into universe/main. Could someone on the Ayatana team give it some review for what needs done to make it really beautiful? -- Alex

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Launi
on the OLPC), and there are all kinds of crazy ideas. Right, this is all real time collaboration. Email is a get a message and wait type activity. They're quite a bit different. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post

Re: [Ayatana] Pleasant Updates for karmic - Papercut

2009-07-08 Thread Alex Launi
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Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Launi
sales, and this trend does not seem to be going away any time soon. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Launi
best. In fact, it's often not. -- --Alex Launi ___ 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] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Launi
! Is there a difference at all? -- -- Alex Launi ___ 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] Solving the user forgets about presentation mode problem! (was Re: notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors)

2009-07-07 Thread Alex Launi
? If they glance away from the screen they might miss the reminder notification too. This seems like something that should be a dialog, not a notification. -- -- Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Alex Launi
delay starting until you can really start, without interruption. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Launi
read what David and I both said, you're not forced to update. You have to tell it to update. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Getting users to care (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Update manager])

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Launi
fallback to current behaviour. -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Launi
at it. === On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com wrote: I had meant to chat with Martin Pitt after his plenary, but never managed to catch up with him. I forgot about it until I was going through my notebook the other day. It would be really

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Getting users to care (was Re: [Fwd: Re: Update manager])

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Launi
it there? -- --Alex Launi ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp