-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 22/04/10 04:50: >... > First of all, I think it would be worth investigating sound effects > attached to indicators. Doing it through the indicator applet means we > can (if desired) use Canberra's awesome ca_gtk_play_for_widget function > (which means beautiful positional audio).
I don't understand why sound effects would be attached to individual menus. Can you give an example or two? > Secondly, I think it's really important to explore the window list at > this point. As others have mentioned, this is all doing a nice job of > establishing what certain APIs are for and making sure they don't get > misused. However, we're lacking a replacement for one of the more > popular misuses: notification icons for minimization. Yes. > One thing that occurs to me is to change the window list into a more > physical place that you can move windows to. So, "minimized" windows > appear there, and are available there, no matter what workspace you're > on. It would no longer list windows unless they are minimized. Pretty > substantial change, but maybe I can do a mockup or something if > anyone's interested :) I'm interested. :-) >... > I was a bit worried upon reading “And further, everything is becoming a > single set of menus.” I could be interpreting it wrong, but this sounds > like everything is going to be stuck in the same space at the top right > even though they are all neatly categorized. I think there should be > separation between these different categories of indicators in some > form. For example, substantial whitespace between app indicators > (including indicator-messages) and system-related indicators (battery, > session). Are we on the same page? >... The history of operating systems is a history of applications getting sucked in to the base system. The clock used to be a separate application; now it's a standard part of the environment. Connecting to the Internet used to be a separate utility; now it's a standard part of the environment. IM status used to be in application-specific widgets; with the me menu we're attempting to make it a standard part of the environment. I expect this slow trend to continue. A simple example is the battery status menu, which is currently a custom one (a patch to gnome-power-manager) but will soon migrate to the system area. So custom to systemic is a continuum, and I don't think it's useful to have a visual barrier between them. The system ones will be grouped at the end of the panel, and in a fixed order, and that's probably enough. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvQSMkACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpgRQCguUKxP/o9IV3MxJ6GhLV/7l6W aVAAoMOqttNpXkULuEOCTGFa6NjJHmUO =t0wq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
