On Mo, 2011-04-18 at 19:55 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote:
> I think it's just there because there is nowhere else to put it.
Unity dedicates the huge real estate of the dash to a mere 8 gigantic
buttons that relate to very broad task and application categories. I
have never understood why the system
On Di, 2011-04-12 at 21:48 +0800, Kevin Liao wrote:
> However, Unity's implementation of the Global Menu is that it becomes
> a menu when it is hovered over. Doesn't this mean that Fitts Law is
> rendered invalid because the user is in a sense "blind" until the
> mouse hovers over the menu?
I don
On Fr, 2011-03-18 at 19:15 +0100, Mitja Pagon wrote:
> I agree with you, though, that a hint to their existence and anchor
> (left-of-the-File-menu) would be nice. That can come in a refinement,
> mockups and patches welcome.
Please forgive me if I provide no link, but there's either a bug report
On Fr, 2011-03-11 at 09:41 -0500, Mark Curtis wrote:
> Someone else suggested putting it in the Me Menu
> This would solve both problems of not being close to Shut Down nor
> cluttering up the Launcher
It would solve these problems, but IMHO cause others that are worse.
First of all, why the Me
On So, 2011-02-13 at 15:20 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
> somebody would be unlikely to bookmark a location, knowing that it
> would become physically unavailable soon. I wouldn't bookmark a
> location, if i plan not to attach that thumbdrive or external hdd
> again anytime soon.
I'm ex
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:56 +0200, Raymond Barbour wrote:
> My wife does a lot presentations and when she switches from her native
> 1920x1200 to the 1024x768 of most projectors sometimes the top panel
> gets messed up. An option to restore to a previous saved setting would
> help her and people ho
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 05:26 +0200, Conscious User wrote:
> Actually, a lot of this is implemented already. Logging missed
> notifications that require not-necessarily-immediate response is
> what the Messaging Menu does. And in Lucid notifications have
> priority levels. Low priority bubbles are no
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote:
> Because hovering your mouse over the notification does not necessarily
> mean that you have already read it. It could also mean that what you
> wanted to click on was more urgent than reading the notification or
> that you were already in t
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:35 +0100, Michael Jonker wrote:
> this can get in the way - especially considering that many apps,
> especially on the graphics sides of things, have their toolbar in that
> location. I have been caught a few times where I have had to wait for
> the notification to fade out
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 12:59 -0400, Mark Curtis wrote:
> I don't see anything in that post on design.canonical.com that says
> the background is temporary.
And if it is, why not write a little remark in the changelog or, better,
embedded into the wallpaper image itself.
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 12:55 +0200, Philipp Wendler wrote:
> But the point is, it behaves similarly for phone calls and for IM (the
> latter also lead to vibration and screen message).
>From my personal use of the phone, I don't see how this would be
desirable. For example, I routinely set the Blac
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 09:59 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> If i window is minizimed, I want it in the taskbar, period. Since it's
> not visually on a desktop, and desktop ~= workspace, it can't be on
> any workspace, so the only place it could live is the taskbar.
If you click the taskbar button
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 23:03 -0500, Diego Moya wrote:
> And one feature I miss is having a volume slider always shown in the
> panel. This was removed from the Gnome volume control for unknown
> reasons, and was a convenient way to quickly set absolute volume with
> one click.
Did you notice that
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 11:35 +0200, Paolo Sammicheli wrote:
> I'm so sorry to disagree with you in this. The entire process, from my
> perspective,
> worked regardless the schedule. Theme was applied the day before the UI
> freeze without
> any previous discussion or even information. Then butto
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 00:32 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> I agree providing end-user upgrade notes might be a good thing, but of
> course those won't be ready until near the release, as not all
> proposed changes will end up in the release...
But as I mentioned, the facilities are in place to displa
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 22:45 +0300, Alex Lourie wrote:
> That is what I would call the fail-safe mechanism, and yet, I'd hope
> it would still work
Interesting conundrum, though:
Passwords work - as far as they do - because people use them quite
regularly and so they tend to remember them and to b
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:22 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
>
> A few of my community circles react to Design Team news with a *sigh*
> and "Oh god what have they done now". The teams reputation is low and
> it's over shadowing the really great work that's going on. How can I
> convince people to trust
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 11:17 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Just because other programs are doing it doesnt make the functionality
> correct. Why cant the minimise button be the one that minimises to the
> notification area? Its how its done with Windows media player from
> what I remember too.
But t
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 03:33 +0530, Manish Sinha wrote:
> I second this change to make Menu compact since most of the time
> people don't use it (my observation). People prefer using toolbar
> buttons (me included).
Me too, because it's a single click for frequently-used features.
>From this poi
Sorry, I must have dealt with Office ribbon issues too much and have
developed an allergy. My rant about auto-arrangements is beside the
point because the OP just suggested a user-switchable compact view.
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 22:33 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:36 -0
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
[Note: I have sent this email to ubuntu-devel because I thought the
ayatana list is intended only for discussions about notification and
presence projects and the like. It's stuck in the moderation queue there
though and I see now that people discuss the window controls here]
Hi,
Sorry for (re?)o
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