Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi! > Are you actually likely to use any given capplet enough times that you'd > be able to remember where it was between uses? From what I remember of > OS X, I always had to look around a bit to find the capplet I was > looking for. > > Also, I don't remember if we're looking at including the SL

Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi! [Sorry for the duplicate, damn keyboard shortcut...] > Are you actually likely to use any given capplet enough times that you'd > be able to remember where it was between uses? > > Also, I don't remember if we're looking at including the SLED > application browser as well, but it works exactl

Discussion for a more robust panel layout

2007-03-20 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi! Recently the problem of changes of resolutions has been raised [1] on the usability list. I would like to start a discussion about how to manage the effect of resolution changes on the panel layout better than what we do today. This implies another way of storing the panel layout. I know Vinc

Re: ubuntu's shutdown screen

2007-03-31 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi Martin! > Are there specific reasons that a single logout/shutdown dialog isn't > used? What would be necessary to get something like that included in > 2.20? Well I believe the upstream maintainers have good reason to keep the two separate dialogs (the design choice is different than that of

Re: EOG features

2005-11-30 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! > I'm having a little dilema about EOG redesign: should EOG be able to > save image changes (rotation) to disk? I tend to say "no" because, > actually, EOG is an image VIEWER (there is GIMP for image editing). My > plan is: 1) add an "Open With" "File" menu item to make it easy to > access

Re: Special folders in gnome

2006-01-13 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! > By the way, I think Apple translate in the UI (maybe in the Shell too), > but not on disk. I'm not sure how that looks when you ssh into an Apple > box. Maybe it's a filesytem thing. No, you're right, they only translate in the UI. In the shell, or with an ssh connexion, you see the untr

Re: Gnome .desktop files

2006-01-19 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! > This happens with a lot of applications, is this a bug or a feature? If I understand correctly, that would be a feature : do we really want all kinds of viewing applications clutter the menu ? I guess uers will just want evince (for example) to open when they double-click on a PDF or PS

Re: Sorry State

2006-02-08 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! I really don't have a strong experience in the Open source community (been here only a few months), but I must agree with Evandro. > Ubuntu has also done some changes in the panel, like the 'Add to Panel' > dialog. From what I remember this was first done in Ubuntu and after a > release us

Re: New panel logout/shutdown alert - a mini ui review

2006-02-10 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! > In many cases, the better solution is not to use a > timeout at all. Just a small suggestion : what about * keeping an internal countdown (eg 2 minutes), without showing it in the dialog ; * when the time is out, either run a password-locked screensaver, ordo what is necessary so that cl