Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg K Nicholson wrote on 21/02/08 15:43: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 17:52 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... Greg K Nicholson wrote on 14/02/08 03:05: ... In which case Alt-dragging wouldn't move the window as usual. ... It already doesn't, and

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-20 Thread Greg K Nicholson
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 02:43 +, Greg K Nicholson wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 17:52 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg K Nicholson wrote on 14/02/08 03:05: Epiphany and Firefox could adopt the same behavior in their Bookmarks

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg K Nicholson wrote on 14/02/08 03:05: Epiphany and Firefox could adopt the same behavior in their Bookmarks menus. In which case Alt-dragging wouldn't move the window as usual. ... It already doesn't, and probably never has. In Epiphany

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-13 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Epiphany and Firefox could adopt the same behavior in their Bookmarks menus. In which case Alt-dragging wouldn't move the window as usual. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 10, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Ivan Sagalaev wrote: Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The panel could copy this behavior: Alt+dragging could move the panel, while normal dragging does nothing. That way people would be much less likely to move the panel

Another panel movement patch (Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?)

2008-02-11 Thread William Lachance
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:11 -0400, William Lachance wrote: On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:09 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The panel could copy this behavior: Alt+dragging could move the panel, while normal dragging does nothing. That way people would be much less likely to move the

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-11 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Thursday 07 February 2008 18:18:34 Jan Claeys wrote: Middle click + drag moves panel applets too (if they aren't locked). -- Jan Claeys Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about that. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Le dimanche 10 février 2008, à 22:09 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:06 AM, William Lachance wrote: ... A while back I fixed up a patch originally written by Novell to GNOME panel, which makes it impossible to move without unlocking it first (the default setting is

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-10 Thread William Lachance
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:09 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The panel could copy this behavior: Alt+dragging could move the panel, while normal dragging does nothing. That way people would be much less likely to move the panel by mistake. FYI, I'm working on this solution (which is

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-08 Thread Greg K Nicholson
doesn't it make sense to remove the Lock option on individual applets at the same time? Yes; such a design is described on Gnome Live: http://live.gnome.org/DesktopInterface#head-e6057484973caefd20f5965074e57c4505ecaf12 Another (in my opinion, better) approach would be to copy xfce: xfce's

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-08 Thread Greg K Nicholson
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 12:36 -0400, William Lachance wrote: http://live.gnome.org/DesktopInterface#head-e6057484973caefd20f5965074e57c4505ecaf12 Interesting, this does seem like an improvement upon what I was originally advocating for, though I wonder if it might be confusing for a global

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-07 Thread William Lachance
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 13:59 -0800, Ted Gould wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:06 -0400, William Lachance wrote: A while back I fixed up a patch originally written by Novell to GNOME panel, which makes it impossible to move without unlocking it first (the default setting is locked). This

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 07-02-2008 om 09:39 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef William Lachance: That being said, the lock option for individual applets seems quite useless. All it does is make it so you can't move an applet without the toggle in the context menu, but you can only move the applet by opening

Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-06 Thread William Lachance
Hi there, A while back I fixed up a patch originally written by Novell to GNOME panel, which makes it impossible to move without unlocking it first (the default setting is locked). This prevents the user from inadvertently moving the panel when (e.g.) they're just trying to open an application.

Re: Getting a usability patch into gnome-panel package?

2008-02-06 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:06 -0400, William Lachance wrote: A while back I fixed up a patch originally written by Novell to GNOME panel, which makes it impossible to move without unlocking it first (the default setting is locked). This prevents the user from inadvertently moving the panel when