Re: [Ayatana] Shadows around active window versus window tiling

2011-04-17 Thread Lewis Chung
I just want to pop in and give my answer: no, because the active window seems to have distinct title bar properties (more colorful). To me, this stands out enough, but I cannot speak for others. Personally, I have also found the shadow to be slightly distracting when having two windows lined up sid

Re: [Ayatana] Shadows around active window versus window tiling

2011-04-17 Thread S. Christian Collins
My two cents: The active window shadow does help to clarify which window is currently active. So the question is, would it be noticeably harder to identify the active window if the shadows were disabled? -~Chris On 04/17/2011 06:21 PM, Ryan Prior wrote: When the user tiles windows by draggin

[Ayatana] Shadows around active window versus window tiling

2011-04-17 Thread Ryan Prior
When the user tiles windows by dragging them to the left or right of the viewport, they tile as to fit perfectly together. In order to increase the impact of that illusion, I think it would be neat if the window shadow for the active window would be supressed, so that one shadow would not overlap t

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Mackintosh
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Ian Santopietro wrote: > > Integrate the menu in the titlebar and have it smoothly fade in when the > mouse moves near to it. > > What if I want to move a window? On a multitouch device I can use > three-finger drag or the MT Grab Handles, but on an old fashioned

Re: [Ayatana] Dynamic menu items

2011-04-17 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 04/16/2011 10:16 PM, Dylan McCall wrote: So, this is all about making menus a little more succinct and easy to navigate. I think it's curiously parallel to what toolbars should be (and mostly are). Long term, the issue at hand is making all the commands and options of programs accessibly.

Re: [Ayatana] impressed

2011-04-17 Thread M. Adnan Quaium
Can you please elaborate what do you mean by 'DESIGN'? On 17 April 2011 10:26, 2046 <2...@oo.info> wrote: > Hello > > I must say I'm impressed by what you have done in Unity. All I ever > thoughts about system GUI is in there :) > The "only" thing I would definitely want to improve a bit is t

[Ayatana] impressed

2011-04-17 Thread 2046
Hello I must say I'm impressed by what you have done in Unity. All I ever thoughts about system GUI is in there :) The "only" thing I would definitely want to improve a bit is the design, That's why I joined this team. all the best 2046 <>___ Mailin