Re: [Ayatana] Contributions?

Hi Matthew and list, just one more question: > 1. Brainstorm some tasks that could be tested in half an hour or so. > For example, importing a photo from a digital camera and sending it > to a friend. Or subscribing to a podcast and syncing it to a > portable music player. Or findi

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 15:51, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 15/11/10 17:54: > > > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 14:40, Matthew Paul Thomas >... > >> frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on > >... > >>> The Sound Menu wiki didn't specify

Re: [Ayatana] Contributions?

Hi, > 1. Brainstorm some tasks that could be tested in half an hour or so. > For example, importing a photo from a digital camera and sending it > to a friend. Or subscribing to a podcast and syncing it to a > portable music player. Or finding an interesting game to play. Or > pri

Re: [Ayatana] Contributions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Carsten Carsten Agger wrote on 17/11/10 15:13: >... > We're starting up an Ubuntu Group in Aarhus, Denmark, with face-to-face > meetings every two weeks, and some of the participants would like to > participate in Ubuntu usability work. Excellent!

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 15/11/10 17:54: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 14:40, Matthew Paul Thomas ... >> frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on >... >>> The Sound Menu wiki didn't specify anything about horizontal me

Re: [Ayatana] Featured in Software Center

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owais Lone wrote on 14/11/10 08:47: > > I was just checking the list of Featured apps in USC and found a few > apps I'm already using. > IMO, it should skip already installed apps and shows more of available ones. >...

Re: [Ayatana] hearphones indicator?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi dani dani wrote on 11/11/10 19:11: >... > One of the shortcomings i can find is that heardphones not indicates. i > create some mockups of how it could fix, hope you like them. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/heardphones%20ind

Re: [Ayatana] Applications suggestion according to hardware capabilities

Hey, I cant see any problems detecting if the computer has 3D compatibility, the processor speed and ram since they are readily available but if you want to get into webcam detection and other external stuff it would require a little bit of work. The 3D compatibility, speed and ram are very useful

[Ayatana] Contributions?

Hi, and sorry for asking what may be a stupid question. We're starting up an Ubuntu Group in Aarhus, Denmark, with face-to-face meetings every two weeks, and some of the participants would like to participate in Ubuntu usability work. One of us did a talk about the Unity interface last time, an

Re: [Ayatana] Applications suggestion according to hardware capabilities

Like I said, we should guide new user (or experienced users doing something new) to these options. However, I still feel that the situation you describe only means that the software centre (search) should be improved. If the list of results is so unclear, it should be improved, otherwise, it would

Re: [Ayatana] Applications suggestion according to hardware capabilities

Thanks for the feedback, I realized that thinking in suggesting applications (and maybe where to find tutorials) is a great thing for new users. So what is better solution to guide the user putting an icon on the top bar / Unity bar or popups ? And should clicking on it open the software center wi

Re: [Ayatana] Applications suggestion according to hardware capabilities

(you forgot to reply to the list) I like this revision of your idea to integrate the suggestions into Software Center as well as improving the search results to make them more usable. This would certainly suit the purpose of suggesting software to the user and better guide the user into a long sta