Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler Brainerd
the quick version would probably be best. as in #1 could it work as a user activated notification? i guess for replies, it would be better to have an actual temporary window. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Conscious User wrote: > > > The simplest answer would be to say that the click should ta

Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
> The simplest answer would be to say that the click should take you as > close to the "thing you clicked on" as possible. > > So, for example, if the messaging app is saying "Jane Silber 14m" > (i.e. you got a message from Jane Silber 14 minutes ago) and you click > on it, you want to see th

Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 10/06/10 01:21, Conscious User wrote: > >>> And, for both cases, the same question remains: what >>> should happen when you click on the indicator? This >>> is particularly hairy when you consider that the >>> user can have multiple streams being shown, and >>> there might be intersections am

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 10/06/10 04:20, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > That is a bad idea. > You cannot just say "we're going to use [insert technology X], but > that does not matter since what we care about is design" without > ignoring the many upstreams who will ultimately be incredibly upset by > that technical change for

Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:21, Conscious User > wrote: > > > When using the regular Gwibber window, those thread > windows would be accessed with something like > right click on broadcast -> "show thread this > message belongs to" or similar, an

Re: [Ayatana] [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations]

2010-06-09 Thread Cody Russell
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 10:28 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > If you're talking about reparenting, then pretty much every window > manager does this. Including metacity and mutter. Compiz sort of does > in upcoming versions, although for a while now it has used a hack > where decorations are drawn as a

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 09/06/10 22:31, Martin Owens wrote: >> Desktop experience and design studies and such I'd love to see more >> discussion here in this list. > > Yes, I think we should keep implementation issues away from this list. > The CSD discussion

Re: [Ayatana] [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations]

2010-06-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
Once again forwarding for Martin. On Wednesday, June 09, 2010 05:19:06 pm Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Am Mittwoch 09 Juni 2010, 20:48:39 schrieb Cody Russell: > > Anyway, I just wanted to comment on this statement and point out that > > this is not a hugely difficult problem to solve with some coopera

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread David Hamm
logo for Ayatana? any thoughts on what kinda logo you had in mind? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations]

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Cody Russell wrote: >> > From: Martin Gräßlin >> > It would be unacceptable that windows cannot be closed if they >> > hung. > > Hi Martin, > > Sorry I've been absent from this discussion, I haven't really felt I had > much to say yet.  And I generally avoid Ayata

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 9 June 2010 23:51, dani planas armangue wrote: > > >>Something is strange here. Those screenshots are clearly not using >>the default theme. I thought the default theme was what is being >>discussed here? > >>Also, the difference between gedit and inkscape... isn't this an >>application setting

Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-09 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Hi there, Conscious ;) On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:21, Conscious User wrote: > > When using the regular Gwibber window, those thread > windows would be accessed with something like > right click on broadcast -> "show thread this > message belongs to" or similar, and they would > be the thing that

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 23:38, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 09/06/10 22:31, Martin Owens wrote: > > Desktop experience and design studies and such I'd love to see more > > discussion here in this list. > yeah, pretty use cases and such are always useful, mockups, most important IMO is that a hig

Re: [Ayatana] What should be Gwibber's behavior when acessed from the messaging menu?

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
> > And, for both cases, the same question remains: what > > should happen when you click on the indicator? This > > is particularly hairy when you consider that the > > user can have multiple streams being shown, and > > there might be intersections among those streams > > (ex: one stream for Twi

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
> I know perfectly well that is temporary, is precisely why now is the > time to decide and talk. > > as I said before you have to think first and then do, seeing how little > has been done in progress, I think missing discuss issues generated by > design. > > this is what ayatana list is destin

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread dani planas armangue
>You should have made more clear from the beginning. >You are taking a wrong approach. For something that >is so obviously a *work in progress*, you should >*ask* before *assuming* anything. >Who said the current colors will be kept? >Who said the different button sizes are not simply >caused by

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
> this is not the default theme that comes in lucid, which is working to > Maverick Merkat > > https://launchpad.net/~dashua/+archive/light-themes You should have made more clear from the beginning. You are taking a wrong approach. For something that is so obviously a *work in progress*, you s

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread dani planas armangue
>Something is strange here. Those screenshots are clearly not using >the default theme. I thought the default theme was what is being >discussed here? >Also, the difference between gedit and inkscape... isn't this an >application setting? this is not the default theme that comes in lucid, which

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 23:50 +0200, dani planas armangue a écrit : > ok, I created a small image that ilillustrates some of my arguments. it > is true that these are bugs that must be corrected, but I think there is > much discusion on the general theme design, > first need think, then do. >

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2010-06-09 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 9 June 2010 22:35, dani planas armangue wrote: > > my questions not like o not like to me, if a design things. > Daniel.P It's a bit hard to visualise =) Please take a zoomed screenshot and add red markers of things you don't like. Or take the svg from your computer and change it to show app

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler Brainerd
Yeah, I agree; but I do think these are less items of the theme and more of system wide decoration rules On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:50 PM, dani planas armangue wrote: > ok, I created a small image that ilillustrates some of my arguments. > it > is true that these are bugs that must be corrected, but I

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Dieki N
Where are you getting this theme? Last I checked, Maverick hasn't had any updates to the theming and is still using the Lucid light-themes. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://la

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread David Hamm
sigh, if only the world could hear your wisdom. "think, then do." ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread dani planas armangue
ok, I created a small image that ilillustrates some of my arguments. it is true that these are bugs that must be corrected, but I think there is much discusion on the general theme design, first need think, then do. http://img227.imageshack.us/f/bugse.jpg/ ;) PD: form precedes function. -- _

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread dani planas armangue
>Dani, >You should try to be a little bit more objective. Your entire post >goes little beyond "I don't like it", and this is not really enough >to start a productive discussion. >You mentioned guidelines and elements of Elementary and Equinox. >Which are those, specifically? Why are they better,

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/06/10 22:31, Martin Owens wrote: > Desktop experience and design studies and such I'd love to see more > discussion here in this list. Yes, I think we should keep implementation issues away from this list. The CSD discussion, for example, has little to do with the user experience we wish to

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/06/10 16:46, Sense Hofstede wrote: > However, like you already say in your last line "there isn't an > overall place where the engineering participation is discussed, other > than #ayatana on freenode." That is the most important missing piece. That's because there are perfectly good ways to

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2010-06-09 Thread dani planas armangue
>Dani, >You should try to be a little bit more objective. Your entire post >goes little beyond "I don't like it", and this is not really enough >to start a productive discussion. >You mentioned guidelines and elements of Elementary and Equinox. >Which are those, specifically? Why are they better,

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 14:28 -0400, Alex Launi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth > wrote: > Would an ayatana-dev list be useful place to start sharing > ideas on > participation? > > All of these projects have launchpad pages, launchpad has mailin

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler Brainerd
I'm going to go out on a limb and disagree. For every fresh install I've done myself and also for new users, the new theme blows them away. not that it can't be improved, specifically with consistency (I've brought up before the multiple different ways of indicating, such as triangles in the messen

Re: [Ayatana] [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations]

2010-06-09 Thread Cody Russell
> > From: Martin Gräßlin > > It would be unacceptable that windows cannot be closed if they > > hung. Hi Martin, Sorry I've been absent from this discussion, I haven't really felt I had much to say yet. And I generally avoid Ayatana list because I have the same problem you have with it.. all t

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Launi
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Would an ayatana-dev list be useful place to start sharing ideas on > participation? > All of these projects have launchpad pages, launchpad has mailing lists. Rather than subscribing to an umbrella list, each project should be run as a

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
I have seen this movie before, and its original title was "the issues with moving window buttons to the left". Back when the left-sided buttons were introduced in the Lucid cycle, I'd feel a lot more confortable if someone had stepped in and said "we made usability studies and are confident that

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Luke Benstead
I'm not going to pretend I understand all the issues relating to CSD, but from here they don't sound like they best way to go. I use Chromium as my default browser and I switched to native decorations the moment I right clicked on the taskbar and got a totally unfamiliar menu without "Always on top

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread David Hamm
...Pardon my intrusion. This seems similar to android and linux, they may both want different things, but they're gonna have to come back together eventually. Would seem easier to shift the river then build a new one. Gnome imo is doing more right then wrong. Please continue... _

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 17:44 +0200, dani planas armangue a écrit : > I've recently been looking at changes in the art of ubuntu (light themes > and new icons) and I think you are doing things wrong. > > topics you are only basing the color palette rather than usability: > > -colors to satura

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 9 June 2010 16:44, dani planas armangue wrote: > I've recently been looking at changes in the art of ubuntu (light themes > and new icons) and I think you are doing things wrong. > > topics you are only basing the color palette rather than usability: > > -colors to saturate(orange specialy but

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
Still proxying for Martin. On Wednesday, June 09, 2010 01:02:14 pm Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Am Mittwoch 09 Juni 2010, 06:13:17 schrieb Ted Gould: > > Cool, that is great! But, I'm worried that we're approaching this from > > different assumptions. My reaction there is "let's figure out how to > >

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi Dani Your feedback is valuable, Otto, Ken and Andrea are the right people to talk to. Mark On 09/06/10 16:44, dani planas armangue wrote: > I've recently been looking at changes in the art of ubuntu (light themes > and new icons) and I think you are doing things wrong. > > topics you are only

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-09 Thread Sense Hofstede
On 8 June 2010 18:38, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Would an ayatana-dev list be useful place to start sharing ideas on > participation? > Only if it would be an actual development list and not a discussion list like this mailing list. If an 'ayatana-dev' mailing list would only be used by people t

[Ayatana] Ubuntu themes(future)

2010-06-09 Thread dani planas armangue
I've recently been looking at changes in the art of ubuntu (light themes and new icons) and I think you are doing things wrong. topics you are only basing the color palette rather than usability: -colors to saturate(orange specialy but same the violet) -Buttons of different sizes -progresbars dif

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:28 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: >> > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:18 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: >> >> As far as I know, with martin's NETWM idea to have the decorator paint >> >> the "behind" of the window, this basically mean

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread S. Christian Collins
On 06/09/2010 08:52 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > It seems like you'd still need two deeply integrated theme engines > though. And, in the case of multiple toolkits, deeply integrated > between them as well if this was ever going to look in anyway > reasonable. > > I just don't understand why having two

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Ted Gould" wrote: >On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 00:45 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:41 +0200, Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> >> As mentioned in my open letter: I want to help you. I am willing to spend >> >> my >> >> time and expertise on this issue to ensure that we don't e

Re: [Ayatana] The Me Menu and specific applications

2010-06-09 Thread Conscious User
Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 08:59 -0500, Ted Gould a écrit : > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:34 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > On 09/06/10 05:20, Ted Gould wrote: > > > I haven't looked at the full schedule for Me Menu yet, but I would > > > imagine most of the Canonical developer time is going to

Re: [Ayatana] The Me Menu and specific applications

2010-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:34 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 09/06/10 05:20, Ted Gould wrote: > > I haven't looked at the full schedule for Me Menu yet, but I would > > imagine most of the Canonical developer time is going to be sucked up > > into the switching of networks and character count f

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 00:45 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:41 +0200, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > >> As mentioned in my open letter: I want to help you. I am willing to spend > >> my > >> time and expertise on this issue to ensure that we don't end with an > >> utterly >

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:28 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 10:18 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > >> As far as I know, with martin's NETWM idea to have the decorator paint > >> the "behind" of the window, this basically means that the window can > >> be reparented at 0x0 in the

Re: [Ayatana] The Me Menu and specific applications

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/06/10 05:20, Ted Gould wrote: > I haven't looked at the full schedule for Me Menu yet, but I would > imagine most of the Canonical developer time is going to be sucked up > into the switching of networks and character count features for > Maverick. So, unless a contribution comes from the com