Re: [Ayatana] Persona for firefox.

2011-01-17 Thread Sohail Mirza
Personas in the context of Firefox are lightweight themes, more specifically. They do not require a browser restart to try them or apply them. At http://www.getpersonas.com/ one can try out personas just by hovering over the preview image. I've recently tried a few personas meant to coordinate

Re: [Ayatana] Printing progress indicator

2011-01-17 Thread Sohail Mirza
Thanks for the pointer, Paul. I was just wondering whether printing had fallen by the wayside with all the frantic work on Natty. :) Sohail On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Paul Sladen ubu...@paul.sladen.org wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Sohail Mirza wrote: Hello Sohail

[Ayatana] Printing progress indicator

2011-01-11 Thread Sohail Mirza
I've not heard mention of how printing will be handled in Natty, where the panel notification tray will be deprecated. Is there an indicator-printer in the works? Thanks, Sohail -- sfm ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

Re: [Ayatana] Do Not Disturb---across multiple applications

2011-01-09 Thread Sohail Mirza
Sounds like Busy is exactly the status you would want. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Paul Sladen ubu...@paul.sladen.org wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Part of the attractiveness ... is they save you from having to make the same change in multiple applications. I

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator-Network

2011-01-01 Thread Sohail Mirza
The drawback to wifi being disabled is the inability to list networks in range. If I am disconnected I may still want to browse available networks. Sohail Mirza -- sfm On Dec 31, 2010 1:54 AM, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: My thought is that I would never want to disconnect from

Re: [Ayatana] Panel Applet Icons

2010-09-23 Thread Sohail Mirza
, 2010 at 04:47, Sohail Mirza mirzmas...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings to the Aytana List, I had a colleague point something out to me today; he had managed to accidentally delete the Session indicator applet from his panel, and was wondering how to restore the applet. Two issues made

Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas

2010-09-14 Thread Sohail Mirza
XUL [2] similarly tries to capitalize on the well established web development knowledge-base. Thanks, Sohail Mirza References: [1] - http://live.gnome.org/ScratchPad/XUL [2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Michael Jonker citizen.jon...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Ayatana] Unity: An interactive Mock up of GUI ideas

2010-09-13 Thread Sohail Mirza
be maximized, and no doubt it would look rather strange when maximized. Thanks and keep the ideas coming! Sohail Mirza On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Michael Jonker citizen.jon...@gmail.comwrote: I have put up an interactive mock up of some of the ways I feel Unity can evolve here: http

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Sohail Mirza
Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show both side-by-side. Replacing the text would likely lead to confusion as to what action was originally invoked, especially in circumstances where further feedback is delayed. :) On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Luke Benstead

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

2010-09-09 Thread Sohail Mirza
in Lucid was a superior user experience. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for your thoughts, this is a low hanging fruit in my personal opinion, that's how it caught my attention. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 15:25, Sohail Mirza mirzmas...@gmail.com

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

2010-05-13 Thread Sohail Mirza
I'm sorry if I misunderstood your position. Thanks for the clarification. :) On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Luke Morton luke.mor...@internode.on.netwrote: On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:18 -0400, Sohail Mirza wrote: Changing learnt behaviours is easier said than done! I agree. A cost

Re: [Ayatana] Compact Menu View

2010-04-23 Thread Sohail Mirza
How about a compact menu that is accompanied by a search bar, not dissimilar from the Start Menu to be found in Windows Vista/7? Navigate the menus if you know where a command is to be found, otherwise just start typing the name. This could be aided by some mechanism for then informing the user

Re: [Ayatana] Restart required indicator

2010-03-31 Thread Sohail Mirza
I quite like the transparency toggle. The other indicators seem to imply selection. Also, what about altering the colour as a means of notification? Thanks, Sohail Mirza -- sfm On Mar 30, 2010 12:59 PM, Vishnoo drkv...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 22:05 -0500, Ted Gould wrote

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-19 Thread Sohail Mirza
is. With a complete lack of reliance on movement or position, some users may have a very difficult time interpreting the various messaging idioms being discussed here. So what's the accessibility plan here? Thanks, Sohail Mirza On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 19/03

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-19 Thread Sohail Mirza
Are any plans underway to produce just such a client in time for Lucid? On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 19/03/10 15:00, Sohail Mirza wrote: With this focus on colours and subtle changes in brightness, what's the plan for accommodating users

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Sohail Mirza
, then perhaps the notifications should not appear while the user's mouse is within the area where the notification is to appear. The notification could be queued for display once the cursor leaves that area. Thanks, Sohail Mirza -- sfm On Mar 15, 2010 1:19 PM, Jeremy Nickurak jer...@nickurak.ca wrote

Re: [Ayatana] Solving the user forgets about presentation mode problem! (was Re: notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors)

2009-07-07 Thread Sohail Mirza
is nearly empty, the end is nigh, etc.). Notifications *requiring*action should be handled differently, shouldn't they? This means that non-critical notifications can be safely ignored. I hope my input has been helpful. Thanks, Sohail Mirza On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia cian

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-06-22 Thread Sohail Mirza
Love the package icon, David. :) To jump into the fray, I'm not sure what the advantage is of forcing the user to wait during the upgrade rather than processing the upgrade after they've logged in. Alex's original suggestion of having the user choose to login and THEN update seems to make more

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-22 Thread Sohail Mirza
James, I love the smooth GTK colours. Were you inspired by the old Firefox theme, Charamel http://members.shaw.ca/lucx/? :) Someone should just make Charamel a GTK theme. It would be the perfect theme *drool*. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM, James Schriver jws...@verizon.net wrote: