[Ayatana] Thoughts on Unity design

2011-04-28 Thread Niklas Rosenqvist
Hi, my name is Niklas Rosenqvist and I recently sent this message to David Barth who forwarded it to a couple of people and I thought I might post it here as well to see what reactions it might get. I'm fairly new to the ubuntu community and I just joined the ayatana mailing list so forgive me if I

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity Design Tweaks

2011-04-28 Thread Evan Huus
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Anthony Scire wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using Unity for about a week now -- which makes me perfectly > qualified to critique every nuance of it! ;-) About as much as the rest of us :) > But seriously, overall, I like it.  Maximizing a window has beautiful > r

Re: [Ayatana] Thoughts on Unity design

2011-04-28 Thread Phong Cao
I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not trying to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far behind GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. I recommend anybody in this email list try out Fedora 15 & GNOME Shell and learn from their simplicity. (Just my thought, no

Re: [Ayatana] Thoughts on Unity design

2011-04-28 Thread Evan Huus
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Phong Cao wrote: > I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not trying > to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far behind > GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. I recommend anybody in this email list try out > Fedora 15 & GNOME S

Re: [Ayatana] Remember window positions

2011-04-28 Thread Ed Lin
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Ed Lin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Vishnoo wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 21:19 +0200, Ed Lin wrote: >>>Secondly, it's broken. Opening another window of the same >>>class/role/whatever shouldn't put it exactly on top of the other one >>>but cascaded

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity Design Tweaks

2011-04-28 Thread Ed Lin
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Evan Huus wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Anthony Scire wrote: >> 2. The menu bar should, in some way, still be built into its window. >> The way I propose is to have a button appear on the title bar, a-la >> Firefox 4.  Hovering the mouse over this bu

Re: [Ayatana] Thoughts on Unity design

2011-04-28 Thread Ed Lin
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote: > Hi, my name is Niklas Rosenqvist and I recently sent this message to > David Barth who forwarded it to a couple of people and I thought I > might post it here as well to see what reactions it might get. I'm > fairly new to the ubuntu c