[Ayatana] Search in Nautilus needs a minor improvement

2011-06-16 Thread Jarlath Reidy
To quote myself on the forums here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1783813 "I want to search for a file and I don't know which of my hard disks it is on. So in Nautilus, I choose the 'Computer' icon from the toolbar and search from there. But it seem that from this view you can only sea

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-16 Thread Stefanos A.
Matthew, I love your idea. With little twist: - unmaximized windows get a menu "button" that displays (drops down?) the menu when clicked. This button should be on the opposite side of the close/maximize/minimize window buttons and should be large enobaleough to present a viable click target (see

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-16 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, OK, Is there going to be some easy way to turn off the global menu? It is already clear to me that I would never want to use it. I can adapt to many of the features of Unity, but the global menu is such a poor idea that I would love to be able to turn it off. For now, I have switched to

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Bassett
On 16/06/11 09:34, Philipp Wendler wrote: > Hi, > > Am 16.06.2011 10:24, schrieb Adrian Maier: >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:53, Philipp >> Wendler wrote: >>> Am 15.06.2011 22:28, schrieb Matthew Bassett: >>> What about just having the menu bar consistently appearing with the window but

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Bassett
On 15/06/11 21:28, Matthew Bassett wrote: [some stuff deleted] > 1) to not activate menu drop downs until mouse-up (so you can grab the > the menu bar/title bar without issue and drag the menu around), or > > 2) only make the menu appear when you mouse over the left hand half of > the title bar.

[Ayatana] indicators vs launchers

2011-06-16 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
in Unity, shouldn't the Messaging menu indicator appear only once a messaging application is up and running? i have neither a mail app nor an instant messaging app running at the moment, still the envelope appears in the panel. While it improves discoverability for the launchers in the menu, it mak

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Bassett
[bother. pressed the wrong button. Sorry, Ian, you'll see this twice...] On 16/06/11 00:25, Ian Santopietro wrote: > > Then, wouldn't the menu open after you finish dragging the window > > around? And what about people that click once on the menu, then drag > > down to the item they want, then re

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-16 Thread Philipp Wendler
Hi, Am 16.06.2011 10:24, schrieb Adrian Maier: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:53, Philipp Wendler wrote: Am 15.06.2011 22:28, schrieb Matthew Bassett: What about just having the menu bar consistently appearing with the window buttons: i.e. in the panel when the window is maximised, and on the ti