Re: [Ayatana] Indicator-Network

2010-12-30 Thread cmaglothin
My thought is that I would never want to disconnect from the internet unless I was actually trying to save battery. That's why you would use the enable/disable wifi item. And no I have no clue whether they will keep the current color scheme. On Dec 31, 2010 12:17 AM, "Phong Cao Viet" wrote: By

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator-Network

2010-12-30 Thread Phong Cao Viet
By the way, do you know which colors will be the theme colors for Natty? Still Black-Orange-Purple and Gray-Orange-Purple? On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Phong Cao Viet wrote: > Your mockup is very nice! I think it just needs some sort of "Disconnect" > buttons... > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator-Network

2010-12-30 Thread Phong Cao Viet
Your mockup is very nice! I think it just needs some sort of "Disconnect" buttons... On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:29 PM, cmaglothin wrote: > I do not know whether this is the correct place to post this, but after a > couple weeks of using Natty I felt that the current indicator for networking > is

Re: [Ayatana] Deprecation of the "Window" Metaphor

2010-12-30 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
I apologize ! On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 20:24, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 18:33 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > > *not too short a text* > > With all these words, you don't define any single, concrete problem with > windows as they are. You don't make much of a case for

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Conscious, On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 18:39, Conscious User wrote: > > > Minimize should be deprecated, because it was a workaround for "hide" > > window", which would have been a non-reversible gesture without tools > > like docky or the unity launcher now, or the window list back then. > > Min

Re: [Ayatana] Deprecation of the "Window" Metaphor

2010-12-30 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 18:33 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: *not too short a text* With all these words, you don't define any single, concrete problem with windows as they are. You don't make much of a case for using another metaphor for the same thing, as there are no obvious candidates t

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread Conscious User
> Minimize should be deprecated, because it was a workaround for "hide" > window", which would have been a non-reversible gesture without tools > like docky or the unity launcher now, or the window list back then. > Minimize is a synonym for "iconify", now list to me the situations in > which you

[Ayatana] Deprecation of the "Window" Metaphor

2010-12-30 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
After thinking back and forth for a while, i would like to start this topic finally, since nobody else seems to have started it yet. The deprecation of what we agree on calling the "window" metaphor. We spoke about Model-View-Controller and what that means to a normal human, i.e. using more natur

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 17:41, Conscious User wrote: > > > Sounds cool. Unfortunately you didn't attach anything :) > the classic! liking the mockup! it shows that one can do a lot with the exposé view.. there was also talk about adding a visible "close" button, when "scale addons" are enabled,

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Conscious User wrote: > Hi, > > Currently the Unity launcher in Natty does not offer any way > to restore minimized windows if another window from the same > application is opened (the scale plugin is invoked instead, > considering only non-minimized windows). >

[Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread Conscious User
Hi, Currently the Unity launcher in Natty does not offer any way to restore minimized windows if another window from the same application is opened (the scale plugin is invoked instead, considering only non-minimized windows). I suppose this is because it's just an alpha, but what is the intended