Re: [Ayatana] The top right thing

2011-04-18 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-12 Thread Mario Vukelic
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't

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-18 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

Re: [Ayatana] 'Control Center' should be in 'Launcher' not in 'Session Menu'

2011-03-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

Re: [Ayatana] hiding unmounted bookmarks

2011-02-18 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

Re: [Ayatana] Panel Applet Icons

2010-09-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 how

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

Re: [Ayatana] The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
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.

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-07-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

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

2010-05-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 of

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

2010-05-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 you

Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

2010-04-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 button

Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

2010-04-28 Thread Mario Vukelic
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

Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

2010-04-28 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 display

Re: [Ayatana] Compact Menu View

2010-04-24 Thread Mario Vukelic
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 point

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