Re: [Ayatana] Serious issues

2011-11-03 Thread Matt Richardson
Another potential would be to prevent windows from occupying the left-most 5px-10px of the screen. The Firefox back button is a stickler for this launcher behaviour, but try resizing it so that it is almost maximised, except leave a small space on the left hand side. This really helps to preven

Re: [Ayatana] Serious issues

2011-11-03 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
On 11/03/2011 01:50 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: We have really serious issues with Unity. For instance, look at the attached screenshot. Can you please include a descriptive subject line and an actual explanation of the perceived problem in your email another time? Consider that you are w

Re: [Ayatana] Serious issues

2011-11-03 Thread Stefanos A.
Two other potential solutions: 1. A visual proximity indicator to the hidden launcher, for instance as a very soft glow that becomes more visible as the mouse moves towards the left side (similar to KDE 4.x when its taskbar is set to autohide). - or - 2. Make the left-most column a clickable reg

Re: [Ayatana] Easy to use menus for touch and non touch devices

2011-11-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Richardson wrote on 03/11/11 09:01: > > It strikes me that the idea behind hiding the menus has been that > for people with touch devices these menus are not useful and future > applications should avoid the use of menus where possible. That i

Re: [Ayatana] Easy to use menus for touch and non touch devices

2011-11-03 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 11/03/2011 02:01 PM, Matt Richardson wrote: It strikes me that the idea behind hiding the menus has been that for people with touch devices these menus are not useful and future applications should avoid the use of menus where possible. What makes you think that would be the idea? The panel

Re: [Ayatana] Easy to use menus for touch and non touch devices

2011-11-03 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 16:01, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On 11/03/2011 02:01 PM, Matt Richardson wrote: > >> It strikes me that the idea behind hiding the menus has been that for >> people with touch devices these menus are not useful and future >> applications should avoid the use of menus where po