I have some suggestions for gnome

2020-03-12 Thread kindu smith via gnome-shell-list
I'm just a normal gnome user and would like to make a few suggestions: 1. Why can't you set the top bar to be transparent? I think it's more beautiful. Although you can use plug-in settings like dynamic top bar, it's very troublesome. 2. Display the application, you can't

I have some suggestions for gnome

2020-03-12 Thread kindu smith via gnome-shell-list
I'm just a normal gnome user and would like to make a few suggestions: 1. Why can't you set the top bar to be transparent? I think it's more beautiful. Although you can use plug-in settings like dynamic top bar, it's very troublesome. 2. Display the application, you can't

Re: The touchpad issue with an overloaded app drawer + suggestions

2016-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Needle
le about the app drawer? Configurable rows/colums/icon size, this would be a massive boon to all users, along with the suggestions above. Tiling! Everyone's favourite subject. No, no, it doesn't need to be complex, it only needs to be functional. Windows beat GNOME to a critical feature;

The touchpad issue with an overloaded app drawer + suggestions

2016-09-25 Thread Luke Jones
as a command would suffice, preferably a context sensitive one so that if you're adding to a non-existant group then it will create it. And the last niggle about the app drawer? Configurable rows/colums/icon size, this would be a massive boon to all users, along with the suggestions above. Til

About suggestions.

2015-02-24 Thread Diogo Campos (gmail)
Hi, list. Where is the best place to put suggestions like this one in the attachment? ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Some suggestions for the view activity.

2012-02-10 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Most likely not. You will probably have to get on the IRC for that. 2012/2/10 informalibre montceau > Hello, > > On my proposal I have not had positive responses or critical. > > Will I get feedback? > > thank you > > Jerome > ___ > gnome-shell-list m

Some suggestions for the view activity.

2012-02-10 Thread informalibre montceau
Hello, On my proposal I have not had positive responses or critical. Will I get feedback? thank you Jerome ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Julien Olivier writes: >> there is no programmatic way for an application to describe whether >> it's going to open a new window, a new tab, or create a new process, >> or what its default is. > > If the application wants to have only one window, it should use > something like LibUnique ( http://

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Jean-Yves LENHOF
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:33:38 +0100, Julien Olivier wrote: >> > That's not how it works on my PC: launching gnome-terminal twice >> > consecutively opens two terminals. >> >> Yes, there are two terminal windows, but what happens is that the new >> gnome-terminal process launches and tells the exis

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Julien Olivier
> > OK, well then that proves that applications are able to decide > > themselves what to do with new processes (open a new window, a new tab > > or just present the existing window). That's one more reason why > > gnome-shell should simply launch new processes each time an app icon is > > pressed

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Julien Olivier
> I know full well about LibUnique, considering that I'm the one who wrote it. > Eh eh ;) > that is why I said "describe", and not "implement": a single instance > application cannot tell the shell that its policy should be changed, > because there is no way for the application to express this

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 8 February 2012 15:22, Julien Olivier wrote: >> there is no programmatic way for an application to describe whether >> it's going to open a new window, a new tab, or create a new process, >> or what its default is. >> > > If the application wants to have only one window, it should use > so

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Julien Olivier
> > That's not how it works on my PC: launching gnome-terminal twice > > consecutively opens two terminals. > > Yes, there are two terminal windows, but what happens is that the new > gnome-terminal process launches and tells the existing gnome-terminal > process to open a new window. > OK, well

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Julien Olivier wrote: >> plus, gnome-terminal is, strictly speaking, a single instance >> application. whenever you execute 'gnome-terminal', the currently >> running process (if any) will be contacted, and a new window or tab >> will be created. you actually have

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Julien Olivier
Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 15:17 +, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > hi; > > On 8 February 2012 15:10, Julien Olivier wrote: > > > Well, what I really mean is that gnome-shell should *try* to start a new > > instance. If the application is single-window, it will work as before: > > the app wil

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 8 February 2012 15:10, Julien Olivier wrote: > Well, what I really mean is that gnome-shell should *try* to start a new > instance. If the application is single-window, it will work as before: > the app will be presented to the user. So, for example, if you had skype > already running on

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Julien Olivier
> > - Favorite apps should only be highlighted if they are running *on the > > current workspace*. > > - Clicking on the icon of a favorite app already running on another > > workspace should launch a new instance of this app instead on > > switching to the currently running one on the other work

Some suggestions for the view activity.

2012-02-08 Thread informalibre montceau
Hello, To reduce travel and thus make the interface more convenient, I made ​​changes that bring the various elements of the icon "activity". There are so few moves to do to perform various actions can become repetitive if one executes regularly. I) Changes. 1) For all views: - Dash is top midd

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
clemens writes: Hi Clemens, > @Tassilo > For Terminals I use tabs to "organize" my consoles, which is supported > by nearly all "console apps". I do use tabs, too. But still have the habit to have at least one terminal (possibly with many tabs) on most of my workspaces, each dedicated to some

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread clemens
> Julien Olivier writes: > > Hi Julien, > > - Favorite apps should only be highlighted if they are running *on the > > current workspace*. > > - Clicking on the icon of a favorite app already running on another > > workspace should launch a new instance of this app instead on > > switching to

Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Julien Olivier writes: Hi Julien, > For more consistency, the following changes would also be needed: > - Alt-Tab should only display windows on the current workspace. It already shows a separator line to indicate what apps are running on a different workspace. If it wouldn't show the other w

Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

2012-02-08 Thread Julien Olivier
Hi list, after using gnome-shell for months now, I must say that I really love the idea of using workspaces to isolate each task, and keep the number of open windows to the minimum by only having windows related to each workspace's task. However, something breaks this concept: the dash always disp

Re: Any recommend paradigm or work-flow suggestions to deal with Gnome 3 dialog behavior.

2012-01-18 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Thanks! I will take a look. At least I will then be able to compare the old behavior to the new behavior and potentially recreate dialogs of interest so that information that is removed by Gnome 3 can be viewed in the "default" state. On 01/16/2012 11:23 PM, Tim wrote: You can disable the mod

Re: Any recommend paradigm or work-flow suggestions to deal with Gnome 3 dialog behavior.

2012-01-16 Thread Tim
You can disable the modal dialogs in gsettings. That should revert things back to the old behaviour On 17/01/12 11:35, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > Old method of working: > > In Firefox, I right click on a file and choose Save As. A dialog is displayed > with information in the title bar and

Any recommend paradigm or work-flow suggestions to deal with Gnome 3 dialog behavior.

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Old method of working: In Firefox, I right click on a file and choose Save As. A dialog is displayed with information in the title bar and I can move the dialog so that I can see what is underneath it to help me set the file name. For example, I might append version information or a date to th

Suggestions

2011-08-04 Thread GonzO
Question for the list: Is this the place to file suggestions for Gnome Shell? Also, is there a place where suggestions have been collected, so that I can read through them to see if any of my suggestions have already been suggested and approved/rejected? Would bugzilla be a better way to go

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:25 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Let's consider the music use case, and let's consider our favorite > player, Rhythmbox (version from git master, as the one in fedora has a > bug and fails to recognize gnome-shell) Ah, that would explain why it's about as useful as a

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-10 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/09/2011 06:25 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: Again, this kind of interaction should be partly exposed with libnotify (message tray) and partly with GApplication (dash, application menu). Design is there, so is code, and I wouldn't consider using the message tray like that an abuse. It is the

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-10 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 09/07/2011 alle 17.03 +0200, Florian Max ha scritto: > 2011/7/9 Aurélien Naldi > [...] > > So, two questions: > 1. Should we support the concept of "background applications"? > This is a good question - many reasons for status icons are not > really an issue with gnome-shell. If

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-09 Thread Rovanion Luckey
Consider the download-manager part of any web-browser. It would do great as a persistent notification. When the user starts to download, lets say an .iso, a notification pops up at the bottom of the screen telling the user that her download has started. If the user mouses over the notification furt

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-09 Thread Jairot Llopis
2011/7/8 Jasper St. Pierre > > There is a problem when using Inkscape and the Alt+click combination. >>> It is >>> > needed for that program, but usually window managers use it to move the >>> > window by default, but allow the user to change it, for example, for >>> mod4 + >>> > click. I didn't

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-09 Thread Florian Max
2011/7/9 Aurélien Naldi > > "normal" running aps are expected to appear in the dock. Background ones > can either be here or somewhere else, I would prefere somewhere else, but > indeed being in the dock also makes sense. The downside for me is that it > may make the dock harder to use as it shows

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-09 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno ven, 08/07/2011 alle 09.27 -0700, Adam Williamson ha scritto: > On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 18:24 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > > > I do like the notification part in gnome-shell (beside the integrated > > > > chat stealing focus, but all it needs is tweaking), I was talking > > > > ab

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-09 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno ven, 08/07/2011 alle 21.00 -0700, Adam Williamson ha scritto: > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 00:43 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: > > 2011/7/9 Tassilo Horn > > Well, not that bad. But still it needs three actions to pause > > the music > > player: (1) open overview, (2)

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Jul 9, 2011 2:54 AM, "Florian Max" wrote: >> I agree that puttng "background" windows on a separate workspace >> unclutters the overview, but it certainly isn't a perfect solution, >> just a workaround: >> * it still clutters the dock > > All running applications "clutter" the dock. To be hones

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 00:43 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: > 2011/7/9 Tassilo Horn > Well, not that bad. But still it needs three actions to pause > the music > player: (1) open overview, (2) activate/unhide player, (3) > press pause > in it. With the usual

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Florian Max
2011/7/8 Aurélien Naldi > Good to know, I did see a "persistent" hint in the spec, but it was > described as "wait until the notification is acknowledged", not truly > persistent. If this is a new hint, I hope it will be added to the spec > as what I would like is a _consistent_ way to do it. If

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Florian Müllner
2011/7/9 Tassilo Horn > Well, not that bad. But still it needs three actions to pause the music > player: (1) open overview, (2) activate/unhide player, (3) press pause > in it. With the usual system tray (aka notification area with icon > abuse), it's usually just right-click > pause. > It is

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Florian Müllner writes: Hi Florian, >> I've checked the report. So if I'd hide a window, how would I get it >> back if I need it? If I understand it correctly, it's not in the >> overview or the window picker. > > The application icon is still in the dash. Right-clicking gives the > option to

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Florian Max writes: Hi Florian, >> I tend to agree. However, there are few ubiquitous apps which one >> doesn't want to see but always have quick access to. > > The current recommendation to applications is to use notification > actions to provide "quick access". I would be fine if Quod Libet

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Florian Müllner wrote: > That is no longer true. Usually notifications are shown for a short time at > the bottom center of the screen and then move to the summary until > acknowledged by the user.  Applications can specify a 'persistent' hint > though, which means

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Florian Müllner
2011/7/8 Tassilo Horn > I would be fine if Quod Libet would fire a notification with play/pause > toggle as soon as my phone rings, but right now phone and computer are > still separate things. I guess things will improve in the future. > > In your rythmbox screenshot, when does that notificatio

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Holger Berndt
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:20:22 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: > As I see it, the use of "notification" icons as a > way for applications to run in the background has its origins on > Windows - as there are no workspaces, every running application uses > precious space in the task bar, so the "minimiz

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 18:24 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > > I do like the notification part in gnome-shell (beside the integrated > > > chat stealing focus, but all it needs is tweaking), I was talking > > > about the "interact with background application" part: I thought > > > gnome-shell a

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Florian Max > wrote: >> The "specific API" used by GNOME Shell is called libnotify, which was >> already used in GNOME 2. Ubuntu uses it for its notify-osd, and apparently >> it is also supported in KDE[0]. T

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Florian Müllner
2011/7/8 Aurélien Naldi > As far as I know, libnotify supports only notifications (and does it > well). They can vanish after a while or require acknowledgement, but > they can not be truly persistent. That is no longer true. Usually notifications are shown for a short time at the bottom center

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno ven, 08/07/2011 alle 07.24 -0700, Adam Williamson ha scritto: > On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 15:19 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > > > As far as I know, libnotify supports only notifications (and does it > > well). They can vanish after a while or require acknowledgement, but > > they can not be

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 15:19 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > As far as I know, libnotify supports only notifications (and does it > well). They can vanish after a while or require acknowledgement, but > they can not be truly persistent. The notification area was used both > for such notifications an

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Florian Max wrote: > The "specific API" used by GNOME Shell is called libnotify, which was > already used in GNOME 2. Ubuntu uses it for its notify-osd, and apparently > it is also supported in KDE[0]. The support for status icons is considered > legacy, its use is

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Florian Max writes: Hi Florian, > The support for status icons is considered legacy, its use is highly > discouraged (and so would be the use of the KDE/Canonical replacement > if support is added) - the message tray is a place to notify users > about a particular event, not a taskbar replacemen

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Florian Max
2011/7/8 Aurélien Naldi > To solve this, the application (and shell) have to move to an other > system. I think gnome-shell has a specific API for notifications which > should allow this. I would really have liked a mechanism shared with > other environments, like the indicators pushed by ubuntu

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Aurélien Naldi
Hi, On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jairot Llopis wrote: >> >> By the way, talking about notifications, if I move the cursor over them >> >> it's >> >> only because I want to open them, so why do I have to click? There >> >> should be >> >> an option to let you open the notifications just by hov

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Jairot Llopis
nd I already answered him through the notification. I don't even like when I press alt+tab and Empathy is always there, messing around with the apps I directly use. The same is true about Rhythmbox. *It's an app I want to hear, not see*, except for the rare cases when I need to browse my m

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Evandro Giovanini writes: Hi Evandro, >> I mean, it's true that the title text und the title bar become >> narrower, but so does the rest of the text (menus, etc.), too.  Isn't >> there a way to adjust only the title bar text.  I don't see a reason >> why the text in the title bar needs to be co

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Evandro Giovanini
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Robert Park writes: > > Hi Robert, > >>> Talking about the windows and useless screen space, is not the title >>> too thick? >> >> Go to the universal access settings and set the font size smaller. the >> titlebar and the top bar become narrow

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-08 Thread Tassilo Horn
Robert Park writes: Hi Robert, >> Talking about the windows and useless screen space, is not the title >> too thick? > > Go to the universal access settings and set the font size smaller. the > titlebar and the top bar become narrower, givin you more usable screen > space. That's a joke, isn't

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Florian Max
2011/7/7 Dylan McCall > Just like the Minimize and Maximize buttons, the close button refers > to a window, not an application (which can have many windows). Correct. Though the expected action is to close the corresponding window, not withdraw it from X (Rhythmbox) or minimize it (Empath

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Dylan McCall
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Florian Max wrote: > That is severely broken in my opinion, as it turns the "close" button into a > "close-or-hide-or-whatever-depending-on-the-app" button. Yay consistency! > > Florian Just like the Minimize and Maximize buttons, the close button refers to a wind

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Florian Max
2011/7/7 Jean-Yves LENHOF > > I'm not sure this is the right place to talk about this, but I have to say >>> it: Rhythmbox lacks a close to tray option >>> >> >> Irrelevant. Move it to an empty workspace, then ignore it. >> > > No, there's a way to do what he wants. > > Just launch rhytmbox > Whe

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Jean-Yves LENHOF
Le 07/07/2011 20:25, Robert Park a écrit : On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jairot Llopis wrote: I'm not sure this is the right place to talk about this, but I have to say it: Rhythmbox lacks a close to tray option Irrelevant. Move it to an empty workspace, then ignore it. No, there's a

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jairot Llopis wrote: >> Talking about the windows and useless screen space, is not the title too >> thick? > > Go to the universal access settings and set the font size smaller. the > titlebar and the top bar bec

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Robert Park
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jairot Llopis wrote: > Talking about the windows and useless screen space, is not the title too > thick? Go to the universal access settings and set the font size smaller. the titlebar and the top bar become narrower, givin you more usable screen space. > I'm not

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Alright, here's some simple explanations. >> By the way, talking about notifications, if I move the cursor over them it's >> only because I want to open them, so why do I have to click? There should be >> an option to let you open the notifications just by hovering over them, the >> same way than

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Patrick Niedzielski
On 7/7/2011 3:05 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: No. No. No. Jasper, Wow. Those replies. No explanation. Even if it has been discussed at length already, such comments were not in any way *against* the project. They were honest suggestions. Perhaps not inline with the vision of the

Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
s in general terms a great job, and I am > enjoying it. > > Now, the suggestions. > > I'm a person who almost always uses the keyboard, and I think gnome-shell is > more focused in mouse usage. I'd love being able to use the keyboard to > select items in the acti

Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

2011-07-07 Thread Jairot Llopis
I have been using for a short time Fedora 15 with Gnome 3, and I want to share some of my points of view about it, and I hope the developers are pleased with them and take note. First of all, congratulations. It's in general terms a great job, and I am enjoying it. Now, the suggestions.

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Job
2011/6/11 Giovanni Campagna > Il giorno sab, 11/06/2011 alle 17.01 -0300, Job ha scritto: > > > > > > > > For touch Screen, Object Actions/Options, was already > > solved, using > > > "Hold Stay". > > > > > > Hold Stay works if the object indicates the avai

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 11/06/2011 alle 17.01 -0300, Job ha scritto: > > > > For touch Screen, Object Actions/Options, was already > solved, using > > "Hold Stay". > > > Hold Stay works if the object indicates the availability of an > actio

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Job
2011/6/11 Giovanni Campagna > Il giorno sab, 11/06/2011 alle 11.55 -0300, Job ha scritto: > > Reading your post, > > > > > > "I don't know about right click menus, but I think they be ditched > > eventually, if > > only because there is no right click on a touchscreen." > > > > > > You are saying

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 11/06/2011 alle 11.55 -0300, Job ha scritto: > Reading your post, > > > "I don't know about right click menus, but I think they be ditched > eventually, if > only because there is no right click on a touchscreen." > > > You are saying that all Gnome 3 - Shell, UI guidelines, is

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Julien Olivier
> Something like this? > > https://launchpad.net/mailnag Well, i haven't tried it yet, but does it use evolution to retrieve emails or does it do so on its own? If it does it on its own, I guess it means that you have to set up your accounts twice: once in evolution, and once in the notifier? In

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Julian
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Julien Olivier wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> Everyone will hate you if you send poorly formatted, badly quoted mail > >> around.  But anyway, new mail notifications wouldn't be that bad for > >> users of

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Julien Olivier wrote: > Hi, > >> Everyone will hate you if you send poorly formatted, badly quoted mail >> around.  But anyway, new mail notifications wouldn't be that bad for >> users of evolution. >> > > New mail notification would be VERY useful especially now

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 09:55, Job wrote: > You are saying that all Gnome 3 - Shell, UI guidelines, is based to "No > Keyboard", "No Mouse", "Small Screen" users?? No. ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/ma

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Cyril Arnaud
How do you expect to have the notification is evolution is not running ? And why should I receive notifications if I chose to close Evolution to not be disturbed by it while I work on something requiring all my focus ? On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 17:13 +0200, Julien Olivier wrote: > Hi, > > > Everyon

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Julien Olivier
Hi, > Everyone will hate you if you send poorly formatted, badly quoted mail > around. But anyway, new mail notifications wouldn't be that bad for > users of evolution. > New mail notification would be VERY useful especially now that there is no way to minimize windows. But it will be useful on

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Job
Reading your post, "I don't know about right click menus, but I think they be ditched eventually, if only because there is no right click on a touchscreen." *You are saying that all Gnome 3 - Shell, UI guidelines, is based to "No Keyboard", "No Mouse", "Small Screen" users??* What is amazing on

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno sab, 11/06/2011 alle 11.03 +0530, Dilip P Kumar ha scritto: > Hello everyone. > > This is my first post to this mailing list. I have been using gnome for > the past 2 years and Gnome 3 for the past 15 days. I loved Gnome 3.0 :) > > After using it for the past few days, I have a couple

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Javier Domingo
Refering to point 4, you can change icons' size o that there appear 8 per row. And 6 rows in a screen. Having such large icons does not contribute for a fast workflow, Javier Domingo El 11/06/2011 07:40, "Dilip P Kumar" escribió: > Hello everyone. > > This is my first post to this mailing list.

Re: Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-11 Thread Tassilo Horn
Dilip P Kumar writes: Hi! > 1. The Activities hotspot should work when using applications in full > screen mode. For example, while using evince in full screen mode, > moving the mouse to the top left corner should bring up the shell > overview. IMO, the activities hot spot often accidentally t

Ideas and suggestions for Gnome shell.

2011-06-10 Thread Dilip P Kumar
Hello everyone. This is my first post to this mailing list. I have been using gnome for the past 2 years and Gnome 3 for the past 15 days. I loved Gnome 3.0 :) After using it for the past few days, I have a couple of ideas I wish to share. *I am NOT going to touch the minimize button or the po

A few suggestions for Gnome Shell

2011-05-16 Thread Daniel Brodie
Hi, First let me say that I really like Gnome Shell and really appreciate the work that went into it. It feels really solid and polished for a .0 release. The dynamic workspaces has got me hooked. I do have a few requests for things that from my >1 month of usage has bothered me. I have search

Re: Starting an app on another workspace? [Was: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)]

2011-05-05 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
The specification that applications have to support is called startup-notification. http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-latest.txt On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 15:11 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote

Re: Starting an app on another workspace? [Was: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)]

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 15:11 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 09:00 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : > > Huh. Should that work? I'm in the activity view, so I see the tiled > > apps of the current workstation, the left hand applications bar [what is > > the official n

Re: Starting an app on another workspace? [Was: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)]

2011-05-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 09:00 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : > Huh. Should that work? I'm in the activity view, so I see the tiled > apps of the current workstation, the left hand applications bar [what is > the official name of that thing] and on the right hand the tiled > workspaces. I gr

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 08:41 +0200, Frederik Hertzum wrote: > tir, 03 05 2011 kl. 16:28 -0430, skrev Dokuro: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Frederik Hertzum > > wrote: > > > > > > > Horizontal desktops missing: > > > > > ==

Starting an app on another workspace? [Was: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)]

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> tir, 03 05 2011 kl. 16:28 -0430, skrev Dokuro: > > so grabbing the app icon and moving it to the workspace you want and > > then using ctrl+alt+up/down does not work for you, because you need > > more rows in order to navigate them easier? Huh. Should that work? I'm in the activity view, so I

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-05-04 Thread Frederik Hertzum
tir, 03 05 2011 kl. 16:28 -0430, skrev Dokuro: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Frederik Hertzum > wrote: > > > > Horizontal desktops missing: > > > = > > > >>ctrl+alt+up/down to change workspaces (virt desktops)

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-05-03 Thread Dokuro
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Frederik Hertzum wrote: > Horizontal desktops missing: > = > >>ctrl+alt+up/down to change workspaces (virt desktops) > That key-combo (or any other for that matter) doesn't allow me

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-05-02 Thread Frederik Hertzum
>>> >>> Horizontal desktops missing: >>> = >ctrl+alt+up/down to change workspaces (virt desktops) That key-combo (or any other for that matter) doesn't allow me to do what I want. I often need more than one set of apps open, whic

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-04-29 Thread Dokuro
>>> >>> Horizontal desktops missing: >>> = > >> >> I'm really confused at what you mean by this. Why do you feel you need >> horizontal workspaces? >> > I would really like to have related workspaces grouped in some way -- > for e

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-04-29 Thread Frederik Hertzum
2011/4/29 Jasper St. Pierre : > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Frederik Hertzum > > Just for clarification, "desktop" means "workspace"? Yes: I was thinking in the term "virtual desktop". > > > >> >> Maximized windows and title bars: >> > >

Re: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-04-28 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Frederik Hertzum < frederik.hert...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was inspired by the discussion "Window controls for GNOME 3" by > Owen Taylor -- > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00192.html > >

GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)

2011-04-28 Thread Frederik Hertzum
This was inspired by the discussion "Window controls for GNOME 3" by Owen Taylor -- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00192.html = I think it's important for people to know a bit about how I use m

Shell Onscreen Keyboard Suggestions (EAsian Languages+Number Row+Messaging)

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Fleeger
Hello, After looking at the wiki's whiteboard page for the onscreen keyboard, I noticed some options and features to improve what was already suggested. 1) The wiki mentions Chinese/Japanese handwriting recognition, and mentions Cell-Writer as an already existing technology. But there are

Re: Some suggestions

2011-03-23 Thread Calum Benson
On 22 Mar 2011, at 21:05, Alberto B. wrote: > Yes, this is the behaviour. I'm sorry, but I did not understand the real > function of "quit" probably due to the italian translation. I hope that > button becomes customizable and usefull. I'm sure it's not just because of the translation... in the

Re: Some suggestions

2011-03-22 Thread Alberto B.
Il giorno lun, 21/03/2011 alle 20.14 -0500, Ryan Peters ha scritto: > Hi Alberto. I'm not a developer for the project, but I'll try to answer > your concerns: > > On 03/21/2011 04:52 PM, Alberto B. wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I started to use gnome-shell some weeks ago with that in the repo of >

Re: Some suggestions

2011-03-21 Thread Juergen Mangler
My system spends some seconds to give list of applications/categories so I hope this will be better in the final release of GS. It's not a quick way to find applications I second this. It's not a huge deal but if the applications menu could be pre-loaded instead of being loaded when Shell acc

Re: Some suggestions

2011-03-21 Thread Ryan Peters
Hi Alberto. I'm not a developer for the project, but I'll try to answer your concerns: On 03/21/2011 04:52 PM, Alberto B. wrote: Hi everyone, I started to use gnome-shell some weeks ago with that in the repo of Fedora 14, then I built the newer from git two weeks ago and I still using it. I app

Some suggestions

2011-03-21 Thread Alberto B.
Hi everyone, I started to use gnome-shell some weeks ago with that in the repo of Fedora 14, then I built the newer from git two weeks ago and I still using it. I appreciate the great work you are doing on GS and I would give you some suggestion. Due to lack of the taskbar (lower bar in Gnome2) now

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