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

2010-11-08 Thread Scott Ritchie
On 10/14/2010 04:18 AM, Conscious User wrote: I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable. I'd love to see suggestions for that. This is more or less one of the points I was trying to make with my original message. Technically, it does not *need* to have an

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

2010-11-08 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 21:58, Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote: On 10/14/2010 04:18 AM, Conscious User wrote: I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable. I'd love to see suggestions for that. This is more or less one of the points I was trying to

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

2010-11-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 zekopeko wrote on 04/11/10 20:38: ... Banshee, if set as the default music player, opens the song in a special sidebar item called File System Queue (as opposed to Library). Better wording and a simple strip bar (similar to the one used in

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

2010-11-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 04/11/10 23:35: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 18:25, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... frederik.nn...@gmail.com mailto:frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on ... To experience the Sound Menu the way it was intended

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

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Launi
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:25 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Apparently usability testing of 10.10 found that people were surprised when music files opened in Totem. I haven't seen the exact results, and I'm not sure how we'd open standalone music files in Banshee while making it clear

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

2010-11-05 Thread Brena Boba
There is something for this purpose already. A bit mackish but quick and slick http://gloobus http://gloobus.net/ Btw, muinshee is great... a bit slow on start. * * * * * * *On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Alex Launi alex.la...@canonical.com wrote:* *On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:25 +, Matthew

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

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 16:59, Alex Launi alex.la...@canonical.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 10:15 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cmaglothin wrote on 20/10/10 04:43: Why not try this: 1. Instead of having the obscure copy track

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

2010-11-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 04/11/10 10:45: ... The Sound Menu as i understand it was made to enable also other music players to place themselves inside of it. Totem is the default player for single .mp3 files on every Ubuntu installation i

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

2010-11-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cmaglothin wrote on 20/10/10 04:43: Why not try this: 1. Instead of having the obscure copy track data feature, why not simplify the buttons in indicator-sound to something like http://imgur.com/ueC7X.jpg Because that's a visual scope error:

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

2010-11-03 Thread Alex Launi
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 10:15 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cmaglothin wrote on 20/10/10 04:43: Why not try this: 1. Instead of having the obscure copy track data feature, why not simplify the buttons in indicator-sound to something

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

2010-10-23 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Yeah that's exactly what i was talking about! An app-indicator for pastie ;) thanks a lot for this! On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 06:12, Felipe Morales hel.sh...@gmail.com wrote: El 21/10/10 09:00, frederik.nn...@gmail.com escribió: Hi Felipe, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:07, Felipe Morales

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

2010-10-23 Thread Felipe Morales
El 23/10/10 11:34, frederik.nn...@gmail.com escribió: Yeah that's exactly what i was talking about! An app-indicator for pastie ;) thanks a lot for this! On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 06:12, Felipe Morales hel.sh...@gmail.com mailto:hel.sh...@gmail.com wrote: El 21/10/10 09:00,

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

2010-10-21 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Felipe, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:07, Felipe Morales hel.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On the way of 4), I think it would be a bit distracting to change the icon when new contents are managed; copy operations are quite frequent and it's almost always clear for the user that some new data has

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

2010-10-20 Thread cmaglothin
Even with just 3 it would be better, as your previously copied data is still there so you wouldn't be endlessly frustrated. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:49 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:43, cmaglothin cmaglot...@gmail.com wrote: Why not

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

2010-10-19 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi MPT, On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:07, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fain182 wrote on 12/10/10 09:53: They don't have the same effect. The Rhythmbox item focuses Rhythmbox. The track data item copies the track data to the

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

2010-10-19 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
hi fain182, On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 20:24, fain182 fain...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/19 frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 19:17, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: An Edit with a symbolic icon for copy next to it also could

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

2010-10-19 Thread Apoorva Sharma
Sorry for taking this even further off track, but... On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, fain182 fain...@gmail.com wrote: I think should be something global, not local to an application, because this wouldn't solve the problem of discoverability of the click on the track, and of all the

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

2010-10-19 Thread cmaglothin
Why not try this: 1. Instead of having the obscure copy track data feature, why not simplify the buttons in indicator-sound to something like http://imgur.com/ueC7X.jpgand add a fourth button indicating that it will copy the data to the clipboard. 2. Have copied items handled by the OS itself

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

2010-10-14 Thread Conscious User
I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable. I'd love to see suggestions for that. This is more or less one of the points I was trying to make with my original message. Technically, it does not *need* to have an effect, there's nothing wrong with having purely

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

2010-10-14 Thread zekopeko
Let me make a suggestion on how to fix this usability problem. Simply use font colors. There was already talk in Unity discussions of using blue (or green?) for informational elements so I think that would fit nicely. Long term it would probably best to allow theme developers to define their own

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

2010-10-12 Thread fain182
They don't have the same effect. The Rhythmbox item focuses Rhythmbox. The track data item copies the track data to the clipboard. This is undiscoverable.. There is no way to tell the user the effect of his click? a notification bubble showed after the click? it would be annoying but maybe

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

2010-10-08 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 08/10/10 12:30: ... Seeing how indicator-datetime shows the full date and seeing how new independent projects like this http://blog.rtg.in.ua/2010/10/have-you-seen-my-weather-applet.html specifically this screenshot: