Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

2011-07-06 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 15:10 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Sorry I didn't follow up on this, but I've abandoned the HTTP approach in favor of an NPAPI plugin. I'm doing a bit of a writeup of it soon. The amount of information spread between GitHub/Wiki/ML is a bit too much for me to clean

Re: Fwd: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 11:41 +0200, Elia Cogodi wrote: Sure, not everybody has touch screens, mouse wheels or touchpads with gestures, but... - AFAIK the trigger area for the message tray is 1 pixel high. Thus left and middle click on scroll bar should work ok as long as the user doesn't

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

2011-04-19 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:53 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: 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

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

2011-04-15 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:09 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:59 +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: I understand that it is challenge to find right balance but could message be more verbose. For example: - After unlocking screen the 'lost' notifications appears

Re: Command completer in runDialog

2011-03-19 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:55 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: On ven., 2011-03-18 at 14:48 +, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: I cannot say anything about normal users but I am expecting (i.e. what I do when I press Alt+F2) to have combination of overview and terminal - something like in

Re: Command completer in runDialog

2011-03-19 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 10:27 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I will be the first to say you'll pry gnome-do from my cold dead hands.. I use it today in replacement for alt-f2 which I never found useful at all in any of its iterations on GNOME 2. While I agree about gnome-do I don't think it is

Problem with gnome-session/gnome-shell (after upgrading to gtk+ 3.0)

2011-02-12 Thread Maciej Piechotka
Hello - I seems to have problems with gnome-shell after upgrading to gtk + 3.0. - If gnome-session is started by gdm screen locks on desktop background and nothing happens. Background autostarting programs runs as reported by ps from console - If gnome-session is started from xterm there is the

Re: How to hibernate?

2011-02-09 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:38 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.com wrote: You use an older version of gnome-shell. In newer there are 2 options: - Cancel

Gnome and hibernate/suspend

2011-02-03 Thread Maciej Piechotka
In new gnome-shell the dialog box for shut down was replaced. That itself is good (previously I need to shut down to hibernate) but: - There is no visible way of hibernation (suspend-to-disk) or restart - When I enter the suspend dialog it shows the shut down dialog Regards signature.asc

Re: Gnome Shell

2011-02-03 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 17:24 +, Allan Day wrote: 3. Focus stealing prevention is enough to drive you mad. I mean, I am in Thunderbird and Firefox is up and running. Click a link in an e-mail and a little panel pops up indicating that Firefox has been 'sort of activated' but

Re: Chatting on Gnome-shell

2011-01-22 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:47 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote: It looks more like a full front-end with an input box ... and not just a mere notification replacement. It should then come full with its emoticons etc. while Empathy should provide the chat engine. I don't buy the duplication of

Should the notification be hide/deleted by right click

2011-01-18 Thread Maciej Piechotka
I have noticed that I'm trying to right-click the notification to make it 'go away'. Sometimes the notification is no longer needed but it status seems to persist anyway. Regards PS. The usability of this solution have been tested on sample of 1 person. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: The favourites bar

2011-01-18 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:52 -0600, Appi wrote: From the faq page: Why no window list or dock? The Shell is designed in order to minimise distraction and interuption and to enable users to focus on the task at hand. A persistent window list or dock would interfere with this goal, serving as a

Workspaces, applications, tasks and gnome-shell

2011-01-04 Thread Maciej Piechotka
Sorry for starting new thread but I find no place to hook into previous one. I'd like to discuss a few aspects of use gnome-shell. While all can be implemented as extention I'm not sure if such deep integration will not destroy the integration. Current status is that the gnome-shell is

Re: Workspaces, applications, tasks and gnome-shell

2011-01-04 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:28 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:58, Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.com wrote: -1 for the running applications in separate workspace by default for me (0 if I'm not forced to use this mode

Re: Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

2010-07-06 Thread Maciej Piechotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 06/07/10 05:07, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Luke Morton luke.mor...@internode.on.netwrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 18:54 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: Working with workspace is harder. When I had gnome-panel

Re: Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

2010-07-06 Thread Maciej Piechotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 06/07/10 08:57, j...@jsschmid.de wrote: Hi! As I said - it's not that it is impossible - it is just harder. RANDOM IDEAMaybe a list of workspace on auto-hiding sidebar[1] which would allow dragdrop and renaming of workspaces? If there

Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

2010-07-05 Thread Maciej Piechotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 First of all I'd like to say that I'm not usability specialist (I'm not event 'normal' user - I'm closer to power user). However after some time of using the gnome-shell (from about GNOME 2.27.x) I noted a few problems - and they are more the

Left top corner animation - distracting?

2010-02-14 Thread Maciej Piechotka
I usually use the mile width/mile height area to pull out of workspace (I'm not sure how is it called). In recent git version the animation was added of pulsing from this corner. Personally I find it very distracting as it momently draw my attention from the task I'm currently doing to the