Re: [Ayatana] Sound theme - startup

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 15:04, Walter Wittel wrote: > An alternative to a mute button might be to sample the ambient sound level > using the mic (should work for most laptops, less so for desktops, but they > likely have volume set for location already) and adjust volume > appropriately. > haaah

Re: [Ayatana] Sound theme - startup

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 17:44, S. Christian Collins wrote: > Well, there is this initiative: > http://mikebuntu.blogspot.com/2010/08/ubuntu-needs-new-sound-theme.html there was. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lis

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Soylent, People then Folks.. What happened to the first two? When i asked around @ "People" about half a year ago, i received a mail response that the development has unfortunately been stopped. And what about Soylent? The desktop so obviously needs this functionality, why were these projects sta

Re: [Ayatana] installation

2010-11-04 Thread Lance
MPT I'm curious if that also appies to this: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg03898.html Sorry my quotation marks resulted in poor quality there. But you can see that frederik.nnaji did indicate I was in the right place. Please understand that I'm only an end user with no tech skills, but

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 18:25, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 04/11/10 10:45: > >... > > The Sound Menu as i understand it was made to enable also other music > > players to place themselves inside of it. Totem is the default player > > for single .mp3 files on ev

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Stephenson
Hi guys, I was wondering if you had taken a look at libsoylent. It's a now dead gnome project to do something similar to this based around evolution-data-server info here: http://live.gnome.org/Soylent/libsoylent Regards, Michael -- Ovi

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-11-04 Thread zekopeko
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 04/11/10 10:45: >>... >> The Sound Menu as i understand it was made to enable also other music >> players to place themselves inside of it. Totem is th

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread Franco Catrin L.
El jue, 04-11-2010 a las 13:47 -0400, Bret Kuhns escribió: [...] > David's proposal creates a solution for easy switching by only > hovering your mouse (or long-press touch). Per the mock-up, users > already adept to using launchers to create multiple instances will be > greeted with a "new insta

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread Bret Kuhns
(sorry about the private reply goof *enables "Reply to all by default" feature in Gmail*) I asked, for examples, where the behaviour suggested was relevant. I think my multiple terminal example is another valid case. Want to work on multiple spreadsheets at a time? Text documents? Whether an app

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread Christian Giordano
(no point to write in pvt., maybe was a mistake, btw...) I asked, for examples, where the behaviour suggested was relevant. I have only be given one (Firefox) which I guess wasn't the best one. My personal opinion is that we can't design for everyone or for every case, for this reason it is import

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-11-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 04/11/10 10:45: >... > The Sound Menu as i understand it was made to enable also other music > players to place themselves inside of it. Totem is the default player > for single .mp3 files on every Ubuntu installation

Re: [Ayatana] Sound theme - startup

2010-11-04 Thread S. Christian Collins
Well, there is this initiative: http://mikebuntu.blogspot.com/2010/08/ubuntu-needs-new-sound-theme.html -~Chris On 10/30/2010 08:58 AM, Shane Fagan wrote: It is very true and changing the entire sound theme has been kinda overlooked over the past 2 cycles and it really needs a revamp. It has be

Re: [Ayatana] installation

2010-11-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ray goss wrote on 25/10/10 03:37: > > With the understanding that Ubuntu always strives to make things as > easy as possible for new users , there are many who have been loayal > Ubuntu users for a long time that would like more control over the > inst

Re: [Ayatana] Sound theme - startup

2010-11-04 Thread Walter Wittel
An alternative to a mute button might be to sample the ambient sound level using the mic (should work for most laptops, less so for desktops, but they likely have volume set for location already) and adjust volume appropriately. On Oct 31, 2010 8:04 AM, "David Stevenson" wrote: On 31/10/10 12:43

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's "desktop"

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
thanks a lot for the inspiration! On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:29, Joern Konopka wrote: > > > On 19.08.2010, at 23:34, Apoorva Sharma < > appi2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Mark Shuttleworth < > > m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> On 08/08/10 20:49, Apoorva Sharma wr

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-11-04 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 16:59, Alex Launi wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 10:15 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > cmaglothin wrote on 20/10/10 04:43: > > > > Why not try this: > > > > 1. Instead of having the obscure "copy track data" feature

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread David Prieto
Hello Christian, In this specific example, a solution could be that Mozilla makes the buttons > to open a new window, or open a new tab, more visible. It's important to > draw a line from the responsabilities of the software and the operating > system, and of course weight these corner cases. > I

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi David, This is an interesting corner case, thanks for pointing it out, could you >> tell me some applications which are meant to be working in this way? I guess >> in this case we could handle it via quick menu, just a thought. >> > > For example, Firefox. My mom used to have a panel launcher t