Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 22:52 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does > Android - > 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature of GNOME 3 is > the > Overview; Android does not have anything like t

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
> Um. I'm not sure how you're getting there from here. How does Android - > 2.3 or 3.0 - resemble GNOME 3? The major feature of GNOME 3 is the > Overview; Android does not have anything like this. It has an app > Actually, they do have an overview although it is an overview of workspaces. So if y

Re: GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 07:20 +0200, Daniele Guerrieri wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday, for the first time of life, i saw two Android devices: > samsung galaxy-s and asus eee pad transformer. > > Immediately, i noticed many similarities between Android's interface > and Gnome 3. > > Actually, the new G

GNOME and ANDROID

2011-07-12 Thread Daniele Guerrieri
Hi, yesterday, for the first time of life, i saw two Android devices: samsung galaxy-s and asus eee pad transformer. Immediately, i noticed many similarities between Android's interface and Gnome 3. Actually, the new Gnome3 interface resembles very closely an android smartphone/tablet. So, the

Re: getting rid of topbar

2011-07-12 Thread Florian Max
2011/7/12 Artur Wroblewski > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Florian Müllner > wrote: > It is quite worrying that simple Main.panel.actor.hide is > not enough. Why hackery involving subcomponents of > topbar is required? (I don't care about animations and > so on) > That is because the panel s

Location-aware GNOME Shell: weekly report 6 + 7

2011-07-12 Thread Stéphane Maniaci
Hi friends, I also skipped report 6, so here is the past two weeks compiled in one report. - integrated a new panel into the gnome-control-center ; it's just called Locations for now, has a homegrown UI not discussed with the designers yet, and it not even sure to stay in there, but this way I ca

Re: getting rid of topbar

2011-07-12 Thread Artur Wroblewski
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Florian Müllner wrote: > Hey, > > 2011/6/2 Artur Wroblewski >> >> good point. shouldn't some CSS suffice here, i.e. height: 0px or >> visibility: none? > > No, that would only "hide" the panel background - without doing fancy stuff > like animations, you'll need s

Re: Keyboard Use

2011-07-12 Thread Ralph Hofmann
Am 12.07.2011 15:18, schrieb Tomas Sironi: Hi people. Gnome 3 has great improvements over its previous version. The only thing I think should have more support is the use of the keyboard. For example, window select by keyboard. But I think there is something that would be even better. There s

Re: Virtual keyboard in activities

2011-07-12 Thread Florian Müllner
2011/7/12 Giacomo Montagner > I will give it a try if I find a little spare time :) > Great! Actually, the code is now also available in a gnome-shell branch[0], I guess that is now the canonical location. Florian [0] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell?h=osk __

Re: Virtual keyboard in activities

2011-07-12 Thread Giacomo Montagner
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:55:12 +0200 Florian Müllner wrote: > 2011/7/12 Giacomo Montagner > > > > > Hi all, > > is there a way to have an on-screen virtual keyboard when in "activities" > > mode? > > As far as I can see, even enabling screen keyboard through universal access > > settings > > won'

Capturing Output of a Command from an Extension

2011-07-12 Thread xtranophilist aaa
How do I capture the output of a command? One way could be running command with Util.spawn that redirects output to a file using '>' or using tee command. And then read the file with GLib.file_get_contents(). But I couldn't make the command output to file work right. There should be a way to direct

Re: Virtual keyboard in activities

2011-07-12 Thread Florian Müllner
2011/7/12 Giacomo Montagner > > Hi all, > is there a way to have an on-screen virtual keyboard when in "activities" > mode? > As far as I can see, even enabling screen keyboard through universal access > settings > won't do the trick. > The bad news is: no, because "normal" windows cannot be use

Virtual keyboard in activities

2011-07-12 Thread Giacomo Montagner
Hi all, is there a way to have an on-screen virtual keyboard when in "activities" mode? As far as I can see, even enabling screen keyboard through universal access settings won't do the trick. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Giacomo ___ gn

Re: Keyboard Use

2011-07-12 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Tomas Sironi wrote: > There should be a shortcut for launching applications from the favorites > menu. For example, if I press the super key and then 2, the second app from > the bar should be launched or focused if it's already open. Really close to what I had in

Keyboard Use

2011-07-12 Thread Tomas Sironi
Hi people. Gnome 3 has great improvements over its previous version. The only thing I think should have more support is the use of the keyboard. For example, window select by keyboard. But I think there is something that would be even better. There should be a shortcut for launching applications f