Re: [Ayatana] Remember window positions

2011-04-27 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 21:19 +0200, Ed Lin wrote: This is regarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/124315 Won't Fix in papercuts , but is tagged ayatana to be overseen in Ayatana project Any update on this? That comment was when Ayatana project was migrating

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

2011-03-28 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 06:27 -0700, Lance wrote: A couple of problems come to mind with fixed window sizes. In all cases one must consider that I have very poor visual acuity. Hmm? I did not mention that the windows need to be a fixed size only or to remove any feature. :-) What I was replying

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 11:43 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: On Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:46:25 PM Vishnoo wrote: It's not just the shape. I would suggest you have a look at icons in iPad/iPhone and compare them. You will quickly realize where Canonical can get sued.. ;-) I don't have

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 22:55 -0600, Ian Santopietro wrote: I disagree. Unity offers a very different experience (or at least they could, given different default settings. Setting backlights to toggle would clear up a lot of complaints about unity. On top of that, you get the aesthetic appeal of

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-20 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 16:37 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: I think, in my personal opinion Launcher looks very good with Faenza icon style. Shape of icons in Faenza style fit very well to Launcher Entries I can only second that. BUT Faenza looks little

Re: [Ayatana] Shiny Icons On Unity Launcher Doesn't fit With Ubuntu

2011-03-20 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 20:23 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 16:37 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: I think, in my personal opinion Launcher looks very good

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

2011-03-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 16:24 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: I think the Gnome Shell designers are badly underestimating the use cases for minimize. No, they havent. I take it you havent read Owen's Mail on the Shell ML.. :-) They know what use-cases they havent fixed (or dont have a better

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

2011-03-16 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 21:17 -0300, Conscious User wrote: Remco wrote: The thing I find jarring is that we have this mysterious design team that basically discusses things behind our backs here at Ayatana. I understand that a small team with face-to-face meetings can be beneficial to

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

2011-03-16 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:37 -0300, Conscious User wrote: You completely missed my point. Yes, I'm talking about the lack of communication between the design team and the community, yup, I replied to only that part of your mail.. and referred only to that part as being re-hashed.. :-) but

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

2011-03-15 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:51 -0300, Conscious User wrote: Thorsten Wilms wrote: The alternative would be to show both title and menu, but giving the menu priority. For habituation and quick aiming, it's important that the menu always starts in the same spot from the left (assuming LTR

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

2011-03-11 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 13:39 +0100, M. Adnan Quaium wrote: Just got the news from the following link: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/ubuntu-natty-adds-control-centre-entry-to-session-menu/ My opinion is - 'Control Center' should be in 'Launcher' not in 'Session Menu'. Actually, Session

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding the Sound Menu Spec's closing of inactive audio applications

2011-02-28 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:36 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for raising this, Brett. Brett Cornwall wrote on 07/02/11 17:28: Hi, Coming from bug 658590 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/658590. I am

Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

2011-02-01 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:51 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sladen wrote on 27/01/11 12:24: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Chromium and Chrome have close buttons on the right of their tabs because it's faster to

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-16 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:03 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 21/12/10 15:08, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: Email notifications tell me when I need to have my email open. When I'm done, I close my email app (which should NOT stop me from getting email notifications). When I get another

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator applet behaviour

2010-12-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 20:26 +, Chris Wilson wrote: Sorry if this has come up before, but I've only recently started contributing to Ubuntu. There's a but currently under discussion here https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/688975 What do people think of the comments

Re: [Ayatana] Option to move launcher to the right

2010-12-05 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 20:46 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: Hi everyone, I've been playing with Unity for a while, and while I like some of its developments, the lack of its customization really bothers me. Particularly, I'd like to be able to move the launcher (+ Ubuntu button) to the right.

Re: [Ayatana] innovative nautilus location bar

2010-11-20 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 13:56 +0100, Arian van Gend wrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/news-on-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html Canonical considered it, but rejected it, as it was considered hackish, as you can read there. People should stop considering blogs as the gospel and further

Re: [Ayatana] File menu

2010-11-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:20 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi appi, nice thinking! How about ... Hi, While this is an interesting topic, this topic is better dealt in the Gnome mailing lists. Any improvement/change needs to be done in *all* the GNOME applications and the Upstream

Re: [Ayatana] Unity and tooltips

2010-11-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:49 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Vishnoo wrote on 17/10/10 11:39: ... We removed tooltips from gnome-panel and indicators because it did not add much value[1] and instead we choose to use icons that could quickly convey the same meaning

[Ayatana] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-17 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, We removed tooltips from gnome-panel and indicators because it did not add much value[1] and instead we choose to use icons that could quickly convey the same meaning. In Unity the Launcher has tooltips for the application icons and for places. While the tooltips from the indicators used to

Re: [Ayatana] Panel Applet Icons

2010-09-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:47 -0400, Sohail Mirza wrote: Are there any open bugs for this issue? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-applet/+bug/519553 I believe the plan is to remove the right-click options and to make the right-click behave the same as a left-click. So, if one

Re: [Ayatana] Panel Applet Icons

2010-09-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:56 +0200, Raymond Barbour wrote: If we are going to add a restore to default why not add a save current layout and a restore to saved layout? My wife does a lot presentations and when she switches from her native 1920x1200 to the 1024x768 of most projectors sometimes

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-09-09 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:49 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 21:59, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 30/07/10 20:57, Vishnoo wrote: Right , just wanted to mention that we dont need

Re: [Ayatana] The need for renaming computer during installation

2010-09-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 13:09 -0700, Lance wrote: I noticed early on with the new ubiquity that there was no option to rename the computer during installation. While I don't personally do that I saw that was a problem for some at the forums so I filed a bug report:

[Ayatana] OMG!Ubuntu a bane or a boon? [was]Re: The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 08:23 -0300, Conscious User wrote: Hello, Some of you might be already aware of the controversy caused by the (supposed) new default wallpaper: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/ubuntu-1010-default-wallpaper.html

Re: [Ayatana] OMG!Ubuntu a bane or a boon? [was]Re: The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Vishnoo
Before continuing, I'd like to remind that this is the second instance within this cycle where a thread here is being brought due to a post on the blog. Earlier, it was about the theme. On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 17:50 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

2010-08-26 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 09:40 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote: Hi all, I instinctively moved my mouse to the indicator applet (I dunno why) Old habits? ;) Windows will show connected usb drives in the notification area... Thoughts? Seems like the plan is to show the usb drives in the Unity's

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled Calculator when doing a calculation, Banshee when you're playing music, and Empathy when you're chatting with friends -- but Firefox when you're writing e-mail,

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-08-02 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 09:40 -0500, Cody Russell wrote: So I've gone ahead and made this change in bzr, but seb128 is pointing out that this longer string is much more awkward for translations. See his comment on the bug report:

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-07-30 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 18:26 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 30/07/10 16:44, Luke Benstead wrote: The red indicator has been a bug bear of mine for a while, red is far to severe a colour for something that isn't an error condition. I'd again suggest blue for information, or at most an

Re: [Ayatana] The Future of Nautilus

2010-06-24 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 20:24 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: It may be interesting to some readers of this ML to know what Nautilus is going to incorporate for us in the future: http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/20/the-future-of-nautilus/ greetings Are you sure? ;) FYI, While Garrett

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing - where does the problem lie?

2010-06-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:33 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: And now, I'll bring your attention back to everyone's favourite bug, lp:160311 (“Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult”). https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/160311 While this is a wildly

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-06-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 23:34 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 31/03/10 18:51, Jim Rorie wrote: From a bigger picture frame of reference, I was mulling a global do no disturb state. This would turn off desktop notifications and other intrusions. Do-Not-Disturb should *definitely* be in

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future) - a mislead user's musing

2010-06-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 23:50 +0200, dani planas armangue wrote: ok, I created a small image that ilillustrates some of my arguments. it is true that these are bugs that must be corrected, but I think there is much discusion on the general theme design, first need think, then do.

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:08 +0200, dani planas armangue wrote: then, regarding the theme light will follow the same on maverik? open any significant change? You might be interested in following link: http://design.canonical.com/2010/05/last-week-in-london-and-brussels/ Quoting Kenneth Wimer

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:03 +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote: 2. Make it clear to the community what Canonical is working on and what Canonical plans to work on in the near future. This would assure users they can work on feature X because Canonical is busy with feature Y and won't have the

Re: [Ayatana] Sound theme update

2010-06-02 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:03 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: Hey all, Is there any more movement on the sound theme yet for the light themes Mark? I didnt see any blueprints at the UDS for it. --fagan https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/design-m-wallpaper-competition

Re: [Ayatana] Sudoku: Let's try a heuristic usability evaluation

2010-05-25 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:51 +0200, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: On 10 May 2010 00:13, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: Basically the idea is to put yourself in the mindset of someone using the system, and ask yourself questions. Been a while since I played so much sudoku. ;p

Re: [Ayatana] Papercuts in Maverick

2010-05-24 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:36 +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote: Hello, The UDS hangover should be completely gone now and we all probably can't wait to start working (even harder)! I've got a couple of thing with regard the papercuts project I would like to ask. Vish has already done some

Re: [Ayatana] Clock Menu Redesign [was: Evolution is: progress]

2010-05-24 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:47 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 21/05/10 18:47, Frederik Nnaji wrote: Hi Nicholas ;) On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 18:01, Nicholas Ipsen n...@ncli-design.com wrote: I think it would be nice to include a weather indicator, maybe to the left of the Clock? I

Re: [Ayatana] Skipping Multiple songs?

2010-05-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 16:28 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vishnoo wrote on 27/04/10 10:13: Hi, With the indicator applications menu and music player menu, I can skip one song at a time. However , if i have to skip multiple songs

[Ayatana] Skipping Multiple songs?

2010-04-27 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, With the indicator applications menu and music player menu, I can skip one song at a time. However , if i have to skip multiple songs , it is a bit tiring to open the menu each time and to skip songs one by one. The only other option to do it faster is to bring up the player window. Do

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:17 +0100, David Siegel wrote: I witnessed this bug biting users many times over the 11 hours of user testing we conducted over the past couple weeks. User opens Rhythmbox... and it appears as if nothing has happened. Empathy sometimes has the same problem. Both of

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-25 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 13:55 -0400, Jim Rorie wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 10:55 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: 2) I have to dig through the menu to trigger updates(Hmm, is that preferences or administration? I can never remember). Annoying for a regular task. Again.

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:53 +0200, Conscious User wrote: That's true, we haven't done as good a job of communication in the past as we could have. But we're working on improving it. For this issue yesterday there were posts on design.canonical.com, markshuttleworth.com, this mailing list,

Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great (branched from Farewell to the notification area)

2010-04-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:14 +0100, David Siegel wrote: Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer to organize some of what's been said on a wiki page, or Google Doc/Wave, or something? Otherwise these ideas will likely never escape this thread. David There you go

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-22 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 08:49 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 22/04/10 04:27, Robin Anderson wrote: One important point I hope the design team is aware of and that gets into discussions on this topic is that minimizing to the notification area / (not) system tray is currently a very nice

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: CHI Day 4 continued

2010-04-16 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 18:57 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jim Rorie jfro...@gmail.com wrote: Since stereo is pretty much standard, sound could be routed to different channels depending on which side of the screen action occurs on. Or perhaps which monitor you

[Ayatana] User feedback from the new WM control order

2010-04-15 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, Not to rehash the same old boring topic, but to just give a user feedback from using the 2 new positions of the window controls. I'v been patiently trying to use the new positioning and trying to see if it is better or doesnt really matter. With the old[earlier alpha order] order of

Re: [Ayatana] User feedback from the new WM control order

2010-04-15 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 11:12 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote: Just to quickly add my experience to this. I've not yet accidentally hit the close button, however I have on several occasions hit minimize when aiming for the Applications menu. I also tweeted about it in frustration:

Re: [Ayatana] Restart required indicator

2010-03-30 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 22:05 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 16:17 -0400, Jim Rorie wrote: Could you not use red arrows like the blue ones in the messaging indicator? Yes, icons would be fine. We should probably come up with something more holistic as was mentioned in

Re: [Ayatana] idea for notifications

2010-01-25 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 23:52 -0800, Mike Rooney wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Daniel Hollocher danielholloc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have an idea for notifications. Since this idea is like 2 big ideas requiring several little changes, I'm opting against a brainstorm or

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:53 -0600, David Siegel wrote: ...Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard shortcuts in menus. (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/493762) It does look nicer and is

Re: [Ayatana] why doesn't indicator-applet-session's status menu show icons?

2010-01-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:16 -0600, David Siegel wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:39 +0530, mac_v wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 04:18 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: Currently the indicator-applet-session's status menu (where you set availability status) doesn't show icons. This makes it really

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: GRUB2 Graphical Boot Menu

2010-01-11 Thread Vishnoo
plans to fix , you might try asking contacting them if there has been any progress. -- Cheers, Vishnoo ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help