Re: [Ayatana] Unity's "desktop"

2010-08-07 Thread David Callé
On sam., 2010-08-07 at 21:17 +0200, Joern Konopka wrote: > Can anybody say 'Zeitgeist Timeline' please? Wouldn't it be redundant with the time-based view from the Dash? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launc

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... Or to put it another way: The Gnome Shell application menu mimicks the Mac OS X application menu almost exactly. It may seem "shiny" or "familiar" to those designers who use a Mac, but it is o

Re: [Ayatana] Time & Date indicator settings dialog

2010-08-07 Thread Andrew Laignel
Can I make an observation on the date/time control? I found that the calendars on a large amount of my public facing terminals kept having the wrong date and eventually tracked it down to the fact that people often want to know what day it is on a certain date, so they used the default Windows XP

[Ayatana] Time & Date indicator settings dialog

2010-08-07 Thread Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi
Hello, I just saw the spec of the Time&Date indicator at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate, and I have a couple of questions: 1. Is anyone working on the settings dialog? 2. If the answer is no, can I develop it in a separate branch? (for 11.04) 3. If the answer is yes, can I program it in Pyth

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's "desktop"

2010-08-07 Thread Joern Konopka
Can anybody say 'Zeitgeist Timeline' please? http://twitter.com/cldx3000 On 07.08.2010, at 21:07, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Traditionally, the desktop is used as a file browser for the home directory. > That's the way I like it but I understand we're trying to get away from a > "file" vi

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 06/08/10 17:15: On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... What sense does it make to have a menu that's lab

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's "desktop"

2010-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Traditionally, the desktop is used as a file browser for the home directory. That's the way I like it but I understand we're trying to get away from a "file" view in general... What about a Document view of some kind? A view of the various things you've created, and that persist in your storag

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > >... > >> What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled "Calculator" > >> when doing a calculation, "Banshee" when you're playing music, and > >> "Empathy" when you're chatting with friends -- but "Firefox" when > >> you'r

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 09:56 AM, Remco wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee, Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN, Farmville, the Gundam AnimeSuki Forum, and Hulu respectively. That

[Ayatana] Unity's "desktop"

2010-08-07 Thread Apoorva Sharma
Currently, when a user logs in to a unity session, they are presented with a dock and a top panel. The rest of the space shows just a pretty picture. Although I like background images, I feel that for a portable device such as a netbook, this space can be put to better use. My proposal is to have

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Remco
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee, > Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN, Farmville, the Gundam AnimeSuki Forum, and > Hulu respectively. That they are using Firefox for 70% of these things > does not mean it is u

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 06/08/10 17:15: > > On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >... >> What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled "Calculator" >> when doing a calculation, "Banshee" when you're playing music, and >> "Empathy" w