Re: Disable hotplug/mount-notification for one specific device?

2011-10-03 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 21:14 +0200, Sven K. wrote: > Hey, > I'm using a bash backup script which mounts a partiton, makes a backup > and unmounts the drive then again. I use notify-send after and before > the backup, but I want to hide the "mounted"-notification which > appears since Gnome Shell 3.2

Re: screen backlight setting

2011-05-06 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 22:39 +0200, Koppányi Tamás wrote: > there seems to be a persistent problem with screen backlight setting > under gnome3. even if the correct backlight leves are set in power > management, the shell ignores these, and alwyas sets the backlight to > maximum when on AC power, a

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy & evolution]

2011-04-19 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 17:59 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > While I understand why it was done it does not help to quickly look if > there have been new events... Yeah, I totally agree; I think Empathy will be definitely improved in this regard for 3.2...not sure we can do anything about Skype,

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy & evolution]

2011-04-18 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 22:28 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > > This sounds like an interesting idea, but does it really scale well if > > you receive a few notifications in a short time? > > Depends on what you are doing right now. In short - I would like to put > the incoming message into right

Re: Food for thought - Unity usability test report

2011-04-18 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 15:52 +, Aleksandra Bookwar wrote: > This topic is called "Food for thought". So I've posted some info I > collected about reaction on the Gnome Shell in Russian community. I don't > demand anything like "real usability report status" here. (Though I was > waiting for an

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy & evolution]

2011-04-15 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:59 +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: > Additionally there is no way of closing some of notifications (for > example empathy notification which shows/hides empathy window). Note that this is an Empathy bug [1]. > I understand that it is challenge to find right balance

Re: notifications (window hints)

2010-12-02 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 18:06 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 18:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > I don't generally switch tasks in the overview, because alt-tab is a > > much more efficient way to do it than / alt-f1, squint > > to identify which tiny thumbnail is the a

Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future

2009-12-04 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:28 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > As a start, here is what the gnome-shell design docs say on the desktop: [cut] Right, I already read that paragraph, and I do not completely agree with it. IRL, the top of my desk is as messy as my desktop, I'm fine with it, and I kno

Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future

2009-12-04 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:09 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:37 +0100, John Stowers wrote: > > > This is a slight change in focus for nautilus, as its now to a > > larger > > > degree used when the user wants to do more complex file > > > operations. I think with this we c

Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future

2009-12-03 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
Hi Alex, On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > This leads to two initial conclusions from my side. First of all we > should disable the drawing of the desktop by default. Second we should > default to browser mode. This might seem a bit suprising since I've > generally bee