Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 58, Issue 18

2011-09-24 Thread Erlan Sergaziev
I think the concept with launcher autohide should be rethought. It doesn't appear soon enough when needed and, ironically, when not needed it appears too soon. I don't think it can be solved by merely adjusting timeouts. I have previously suggested half-hidden launcher and would like to raise

New feature request for Software Center - Tag as outdated

2011-07-26 Thread Erlan Sergaziev
There are a lot of packages even in Oneiric that are 1-2 versions behind stable upstream. I would suggest therefore that Software Center has a feature where users will be able to tag certain packages as outdated like in arch. Tagging should have the following benefits: 1) The number of

Slim down gedit to save space on CD

2011-07-15 Thread Erlan Sergaziev
Seeing that there's a heavy fight for CD space for Oneiric, may I suggest slimming down gedit. Currently gedit as shipped by default looks more like an IDE than a basic editor. It pulls gtksourceview for syntax highlighting and a few plugins which are only needed by very advanced users

Re: Partially hidden launcher - updated mockup 3d shelf

2011-06-15 Thread Erlan Sergaziev
appear to drag the desired application to a compartment. Of course, the mockup would benefit from someone with better artistic skills :) On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 18:58, Erlan Sergaziev erlan.sergaz...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I would like to suggest a new way of handling launcher auto-hide

Partially hidden launcher

2011-06-13 Thread Erlan Sergaziev
Hi everyone, I would like to suggest a new way of handling launcher auto-hide. First, some reasons: 1) When the launcher is hidden, the user is unable to quickly switch/launch applications (so it's a regression for many against old-style taskbar panel) and also misses the benefits of seeing