Should GNOME Get a Global Application Menubar?

2007-05-18 Thread Thom Holwerda
our faith in mankind won't be affected this time. I am not trying to push any of you either way. I'm just giving you the results of the poll, as well as comprehensive list of arguments in favour and against. Do with it as you please. Thanks for the hard work you boys and gir

RE: getting on a longer release cycled

2006-09-07 Thread Thom Holwerda
impose the same 6 months on >2 as on 2.x releases. I think most of you agree on that one. Anyway, all the above is pointless if GNOME, as Havoc pointed out, does not get going on >2 soon. With Microsoft gearing up for Vista, and KDE for KDE 4, I don't think GNOME can afford to da

RE: 'GNOME', 'Gnome' [Was: Gnome 2]

2006-04-23 Thread Thom Holwerda
Just for the record: I'm the managing editor for OSNews.com, and I try to enforce the use of 'GNOME' instead of 'Gnome' as much as possible on the front page. Thom Holwerda -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Thom Holwerda
ing to go? Must developers adhere to some sort of code of conduct-- a sort of extra set of requirements-- before they can contribute to the GNOME project? Because that is kind of how your viewpoint comes across here. Thom Holwerda --- Managing editor at http://www.osnews.com, explorin

Re: Design by Community

2006-02-08 Thread Thom Holwerda
filiated with any company...? Thom Holwerda --- Managing editor at http://www.osnews.com, exploring the future of computing --- Read my *all new* blog: http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.

Re: Strange window list behaviour

2005-09-29 Thread Thom Holwerda
it's still confusing and annoying. -- Thom Holwerda --- Managing editor at http://www.osnews.com, exploring the future of computing --- Read *all new* my blog: http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com --- Google Talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:10 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote: > Hi ther

Re: [Usability] The Desktop: useful or just a relic?

2005-06-02 Thread Thom Holwerda
oops, wrong mailinglist, excuse me!ThomOn 2 Jun 2005, at 16:57, Thom Holwerda wrote:Topaz thoughts..Again a silly questions to the gods of usefull interfaces;  Is the desktop useful (or is it just a relic from ancient times?)Definitely useful. A relic, yes, but a relic isn't nescesarily us

Re: [Usability] The Desktop: useful or just a relic?

2005-06-02 Thread Thom Holwerda
search for, i.o.w., your keywords must be very effective, else it will *still* take long to find the correct file) or via the desktop. The latter is a concept a lot of people understand, and by implementing a faster way to 'Show desktop' (faster than a button at least), I don't th

Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

2005-05-26 Thread Thom Holwerda
love to use". Then, you have a set of goals.Once those goals are defined, one can discuss the tools, the means to achieve these goals. If one of those is a siginifacnt structural change, then so be it.How can you create tools for a job if you don't know the job? Thom Holwerda --- Main news p

Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

2005-04-19 Thread Thom Holwerda
anything; I'm just trying to show to people that merging pdf and image viewing functionality into one app doesn't need to be a disaster, or a slow app. Preview is actually very fast, and I'm only using a 1.07 Ghz 256MBRAM iBook. By all means no speed demon. Thom Holwerda --- Main

Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

2005-04-19 Thread Thom Holwerda
Also note that ordinary users will not ecnounter long pdf files with only text; they'll have .doc for that. They'll mostly use it for very graphical manuals and product announcements and such. And then looking ahead, I think Evince is the best candidate. Thom Holwerda --- Main n

Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

2005-04-19 Thread Thom Holwerda
ikes should also be added to the list of files to view via Evince. Thom Holwerda --- Main news posting guy at http://www.expert-zone.com, bringing you the OS/Computer news that matters ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org h

Re: Double-clicking titlebar = minimize

2005-04-11 Thread Thom Holwerda
> > But if anyone wants to argue with Rob, please do so by opening a bug > in bugzilla. Thanks. > > Elijah And so I have. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300210 Just so everyone knows. Thom Holwerda PS: Maybe time for a metacity(-devel) list? -- Main news post

Double-clicking titlebar = minimize

2005-04-11 Thread Thom Holwerda
ess discussion on "why" I want it, I'm just asking any chance we'll see it? I'd think that adding this option in the proper gconf entry wouldn't be too much hassle...? I'm sure I'm not the only one who is very fond of this titlebar action. Thanks in a

Re: Gnome 3.0 - menus

2005-04-04 Thread Thom Holwerda
ame (file, view, edit, etc), whereas toolbars are much more diverse (send, reply in a mailclient, forward, back in a browser etc); 3) toolbars can be really filled with options-- take a look at ie. OpenOffice or something like that. Thom Holwerda -- Main news posting guy of http://www.expert-z

Re: Gnome 3.0 - menus

2005-04-04 Thread Thom Holwerda
n my humble opinion of course, so it might be a good idea to take OSX/Finder as a starting point on this one. Thom Holwerda --- Main news posting guy of http://www.expert-zone.com, bringing you the OS/computer news that matters ___ deskt