Re: [Ayatana] Executable file dialog box...

2010-09-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tuesday 21,September,2010 09:20 PM, Luke Benstead wrote: > On 21 September 2010 13:54, Remco > > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:38, Luke Benstead > wrote: > > I'm wondering if we need this dialog at all, surely we can code

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-21 Thread Diego Moya
On 21 September 2010 15:57, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >> For the same reason operating systems don't have visible controls for >> configuring the appearance of tooltips. If they're designed right, they >> should be below the threshold of triviality. If a substantial proportion >> of users want

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-21 Thread Diego Moya
On 21 September 2010 15:57, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Diego Moya wrote on 20/09/10 15:59: > > I think it was meant to configure the default opacity to a level at > > which the user feels comfortable. The Ayatana design dismissed the idea > > to let users configure notifications to their needs,

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego Moya wrote on 20/09/10 15:59: >... > Diego Moya wrote on 17/09/10 13:59: >> >>> Yes, those bubbles are actually quite similar to what NotifyOSD tries >>> to do. But look how Jef required a way for the user to take control >>> of how bubbles are p

Re: [Ayatana] Executable file dialog box...

2010-09-21 Thread Luke Benstead
On 21 September 2010 13:54, Remco wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:38, Luke Benstead wrote: > > I'm wondering if we need this dialog at all, surely we can code in a > little > > bit of logic here. How about: > > > > If the file is executable and: > > > > 1. If the file is binary and the exten

Re: [Ayatana] Executable file dialog box...

2010-09-21 Thread Remco
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:38, Luke Benstead wrote: > I'm wondering if we need this dialog at all, surely we can code in a little > bit of logic here. How about: > > If the file is executable and: > > 1. If the file is binary and the extension not associated to a program, > attempt to run it > or

[Ayatana] Executable file dialog box...

2010-09-21 Thread Luke Benstead
Hi everyone, We all know that on Linux any file can be marked as executable and unlike Windows we don't rely on the extension of the file to determine that. But this of course leads to ambiguity when someone double clicks a file from Nautilus, should the file be executed or displayed? The current