Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Emmanuele Bassi (eba...@gmail.com) said: > you need a design first, if you want to comment on it. also, to dispel > a myth: no design is "finished". ever. > > there is always time to fix things. there's also a certain amount of > time between design and implementation, and then there's a certain

Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

2013-04-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Allan Day (allanp...@gmail.com) said: > > The other day she called me as she couldn't > > figure out how to increase the volume. It turns out that audio was > > muted, and what gnome-shell shows in that case is a dark gray audio icon > > with a tiny little "X" on its corner. > > > > The dark gray

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-23 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said: > > 2. Similarly, how is 'e)' different than the current user add > > screen? How are additional users expected to configure this information > > for their login if they are created in this manner? > > Additional users can use the control-center t

Re: 3.2 features: login screen

2011-05-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) said: > Let me answer them. > > A. The design is to run this only for the initial setup, when no users > exist yet. The large majority of systems nowadays are single-user, > anyway... OK, but that does make me wonder about when this isn't the case. The