[Bug 783498] Re: add per-window ("window-centric") window management to Unity (launcher and/or compiz)

2011-06-22 Thread Ed Lin
Why? Is this your personal decision or opinion? This bug is backed by lengthy discussions in the ayatana mailing list. I'm confident the majority in the ayatana community would welcome 1) further discussing such changes and improvements, refining them, doing usability tests and so on and finall

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking it's Launcher Icon

2011-06-20 Thread Ed Lin
Why was this set to Won't Fix? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733349 Title: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking it's Launcher Icon To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 790714] Re: add launcher context menu (right click empty area)

2011-06-02 Thread Ed Lin
@Omer Akram That's where it originated, it came up in several threads. I've only posted this on request of Niklas Rosenqvist. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790714 Title: add launche

[Bug 790591] Re: More effective launcher area with the workspace switcher and the trash relocated

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
> I like the idea of an android-style solution where as a trash > button only appears when an item is being dragged. I thought of that too but the Unity trash doubles as a system wide trash as well that can be used for dragging and dropping files from any nautilus window or the desktop. Paradoxic

[Bug 790591] Re: More effective launcher area with the workspace switcher and the trash relocated

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
>If the cursor is at the very edge of the screen, next to a launcher, it can't >be clicked. It can, if it can't that's a bug: bug 790695 (note the "sometimes", sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, at least for me) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 790687] [NEW] nautilus desktop: Unity menu and alt key navigation

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus Under Unity if you press the alt key the global menu becomes focused and you can select menu items via alt+f (File), alt+e (Edit) and so on. This works with all applications, except when the desktop is focused. For consistency reasons and keyboar

[Bug 705367] Re: "Show Menubar" on menu doesn't prevent menu shortcuts

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 787465 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787465 I've marked this as a duplicate, this is the oldest bug but the description and title here is misleading and I can't edit the latter. Also to consider is bug 767941 which adds "Edit > Profile Preferences > G

[Bug 767941] Re: Menubar-related options in GNOME Terminal make no sense with a global menu bar

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
Also see bug 787465 and 705367 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/767941 Title: Menubar-related options in GNOME Terminal make no sense with a global menu bar -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 705367] Re: "Show Menubar" on menu doesn't prevent menu shortcuts

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 787465 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787465 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 787465 View->Show MenuBar isn't working in 11.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 787465] Re: View->Show MenuBar isn't working in 11.04

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Lin
>In my opinion this option shouldn't exist now, considering that global menus are the future That's a debatable opinion but you are absolutely right that this item shouldn't exist if a global menu is detected https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#detecting See the first comment at #705367 -- You re

[Bug 781378] Re: unmaximize windows on upper screen edge (Fitts's Law)

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Lin
@Braiam Peguero: the theme only has an effect if you use no top panel (the theme only affects the window button behavior). The titlebar double-clicking happens in every theme. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 788571] [NEW] doesn't find short filenames (less than 3 letters)

2011-05-26 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tracker Create a file with a filename of one or two letters/digits Tracker won't find it. Now add a third letter to the name Tracker will find it. Expected result: tracker starts its find as you type magic after the first entered key and lists the file

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking it's Launcher Icon

2011-05-16 Thread Ed Lin
> This bug report explicitly refers to "Minimize Application's Windows upon > clicking it's Launcher Icon ". Not "minimize application" but "minimize > application windows". Yes, because someone changed it. You remember the original title chosen by the bug reporter was "Unity launcher buttons shou

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking it's Launcher Icon

2011-05-16 Thread Ed Lin
@The Fiddler FYI you are misunderstanding me. It never was about this functionality breaking app-centric paradigms. It really only has been about definitions, differentiations and terminology, both in the bug discussion and in eventually user facing dialogs and options. I find it pretty ironic

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking it's Launcher Icon

2011-05-16 Thread Ed Lin
Marco Biscaro wrote: >> Why should the launcher suddenly hide "windows"? > > Again: because applications can not be hidden. Citation needed. Or please explain yourself. I've explained and justified my statements, I've heard no counterarguments other than "No, I disagree". (There is no "/the/ *win

[Bug 783498] [NEW] add per-window ("window-centric") window management to Unity (launcher and/or compiz)

2011-05-16 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: This bug is about improving window management in Unity. The Unity launcher is an application-centric interface. The spread view introduces some window level management but it's not yet a full replacement for the fast window management people are used to from taskbar based inte

[Bug 733349] Re: Hide Applications upon clicking on Launcher Icons

2011-05-15 Thread Ed Lin
@Bazon We could discuss whether we should label any context menu entry of the dock "hide (application)" or "hide all windows". I'm open to such discussion. However I'm against it for several reasons: Application in this context are an abstraction, an abstraction which is already exposed via the

[Bug 733349] Re: Hide Applications upon clicking on Launcher Icons

2011-05-15 Thread Ed Lin
This is getting silly now. I was changing it BACK btw, to the original bug description. @tekstr1der: This is not about my views, it's about logically analyzing a problem, properly labeling it in correct terms and finally coming up with good ways to solve it. First let me answer your question. Ye

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking on Launcher Icons

2011-05-15 Thread Ed Lin
Marco Biscaro: Maybe "minimize" was a poor choice, a better term to properly distinguish the two approaches is "hide". The launcher is for launching applications, it represents application, it indicates whether applications are running or not, you can "quit" applications from it's context menu.

[Bug 780268] Re: unmaximize from appmenu puts the window in a wrong position

2011-05-14 Thread Ed Lin
Confirmed @Lukáš Machyán see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/781378 ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/7

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

2011-05-14 Thread Ed Lin
@Roland I thought I had explained it sufficiently. I do not work for Canonical. I only represent myself and my opinions here. I too am not happy with the global menu for example or the general Mac copying that has been going on in the Unity design team (which I'm not part of). I merely pointed o

[Bug 781774] Re: launcher dodge and non-default themes

2011-05-13 Thread Ed Lin
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 776697 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776697 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 776697 Newly opened apps overlap launcher and hide it (themes with window border>1px) * You can subscribe to bug 776697 by following this link: https://bugs

[Bug 437733] Re: set has-frame of option comboboxes to false

2011-05-12 Thread Ed Lin
Too bad I can't edit... LightDM will replace GMD in Oneiric so that is that. GNOME 3 has a new layout that isn't affected by this bug. Case closed. Well played upstream! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 781774] [NEW] launcher dodge and non-default themes

2011-05-12 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: Themes with (thicker) window decoration/bezel around the window dodge the launcher even when they shouldn't and clearly don't have to. To reproduce: Change theme to e.g. Clearlooks On an empty desktop open e.g. Terminal. The default placement rule puts the window into the l

[Bug 776977] Re: Double click on menu bar should reset a maximized window to original size

2011-05-12 Thread Ed Lin
It should work, it works for me, double click into the empty area of the top panel. However: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/781378 Second problem: it restores the window size but at the wrong position/geometry, often partially off-screen. Can anyone confirm? This should h

[Bug 437733] Re: set has-frame of option comboboxes to false

2011-05-11 Thread Ed Lin
9 months actually -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437733 Title: set has-frame of option comboboxes to false -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

[Bug 437733] Re: set has-frame of option comboboxes to false

2011-05-11 Thread Ed Lin
So this bug has been sitting there fro 5 months now still listed as UNCONFIRMED with no comment at all. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626737 Why do we need to wait for upstream? Sooner or later we need to make some changes anyway (https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04636.html)

[Bug 781384] [NEW] active/inactive window decorations are wrong, do not update (only fglrx)

2011-05-11 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz When using Compiz in standalone mode and with fglrx (installed with jockey) window decoration do not correctly reflect the activity status of windows. Most windows have the active decoration, some launch with inactive decoration even though they ha

[Bug 781378] [NEW] unmaximize windows on upper screen edge (Fitts's Law)

2011-05-11 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz In compiz you can't unmaximize a window by double clicking the title bar (or Unity panel) at the very screen edge. For some strange reasons clicking the screen edge in the right corner even focuses the desktop instead of closing the window (if t

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

2011-05-08 Thread Ed Lin
@Rasto I think you are misunderstanding me. All I was saying is that the launcher is different and can't replicate the functionality of a taskbar 100%. Single-click top-hierarchy per-window minimizing simply is impossible to do in a dock. If you add that feature the dock automatically becomes a

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

2011-05-08 Thread Ed Lin
@Bazon 1.) Unity is a special case as it has its dedicated "opinion" list, other packages have no better place than the bug tracker. The problem with discussing it here *as well' is that it splits the discussion, I'd have to repost everything to both. I feel the email form is better suited for a

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

2011-05-07 Thread Ed Lin
@Bazon, KillerKiwi, The Fiddler Please join the mailing list if you want to discuss this further, I've just posted a mail on topic, not yet in the public archive ("[Ayatana] Unity with window-centric launcher"). A Dock CAN'T, by design, offer the kind of minimizing feature a taskbar has: Single

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

2011-05-06 Thread Ed Lin
I think the ayatana mailing list is better suited for this kind of discussion. Just this: @JC, @Michael Both suggestions are too complicated, also middle click is already occupied for launching a new instance/window. What about minimizing the whole app (all its windows) from the context menu and

[Bug 753465] Re: xbindkeys crashes due to memory corruption

2011-05-01 Thread Ed Lin
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 747681 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747681 I can't access https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747681 Link to upstream patch (as posted in the debian bugtracker): http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xbindkeys.git/commit/?id=e3cacfb54cd2990026e718659dcbad5525

[Bug 749335] Re: Explore options for tab integration with Unity top bar

2011-04-29 Thread Ed Lin
IMO this all needlessly complicates everything for everyone. In the last couple of days I've written several lengthy emails in the ayatana mailing list arguing against a global menubar and suggesting to remove the top panel altogether. As a result application developers could make optimal use of t

[Bug 733349] Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

2011-04-28 Thread Ed Lin
This bug needs to be changed back to "Unity launcher buttons should allow to minimize apps, not just launch/restore" Here's why: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg05594.html The launcher follows an app-centric paradigm like OS X and the "dock". I doubt a lot of thought went into this when

[Bug 124315] Re: Remember+restore window position of applications with WM_WINDOW_ROLE or window title set

2011-04-27 Thread Ed Lin
I've added Compiz to this bug as per the discussion here: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg05613.html >I know about the window placement plugin in CCSM but there are two problems: >It requires manual setup and can only do static coordinates and rules >whereas it should be enabled by default,

[Bug 124315] Re: Remember+restore window position of applications with WM_WINDOW_ROLE or window title set

2011-04-27 Thread Ed Lin
** Also affects: compiz (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124315 Title: Remember+restore window position of applications with WM_WIND

[Bug 771470] [NEW] open/save dialog doesn't remember last folder across sessions

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Lin
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gedit Open a new gedit instance, the open and save dialogs both default to the home folder. Now open or save a document in another folder, for example ~/Documents. From then on all further invocations of a dialog within this window will default to ~/Docum

[Bug 763457] Re: pyopencl falsely depends on nvidia-current

2011-04-23 Thread Ed Lin
I have no idea if this is considered a proper workaround but it "works for me": Downloaded the .deb from a mirror and edited it according to this (removed nvidia-current) http://blog.sch.bme.hu/index.php/aldaris/2010/10/13/how-to-workaround-apt-get-unmet-dependencies-error Then installed it with #