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

2011-03-15 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: I see four major problems with hiding the menus and covering them with an application or window title. 1. Most importantly, it makes the menus much harder to use. 2. It makes some functions effectively

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-14 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Gian zapp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, that's my first time posting here, so hi! :) I think the proposed solutions of a 2-sided launcher have a great advantage over the current implementation: currently on large monitors the places shortcuts may end

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.comwrote: My concern is that the functionality of changing the volume of Banshee moves about quite a bit. It does this in two ways: 1) It moves from place to place in the interface- namely between the panel and the window

Re: [Ayatana] Unity widgets mockups

2011-02-05 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
I have also previously suggested the idea of widgets in Unity, as an alternative to the current, rather empty desktop. Since widgets are simply ways of looking at content, not interacting with the operating system, I think web-tech based widget system would be optimal. This way, content could be

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-04 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com wrote: Can we can assume from this that per-application functions, such as volume control and network status, wont be tenable uses of the windicator idea, since this would result in duplicates (e.g., two volume controls) or

Re: [Ayatana] fileless paradigm

2010-11-25 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the excellent material guys! While this work was mainly about folders and not about files, i've been able to extract some insights, that might be of relevant to this thread.. On Wed, Nov 24,