On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Matthew Bassett wrote:
> I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the
> archives of this mailing list, but...
A few links:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/welcome-window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/7906
I have seen this brought up before here, but never has anyone mentioned the
way that Android does it. Android uses a simple widget that throws up little
helpful hints in a non intrusive way of getting you started.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Matthew Bassett wrote:
> I hope I am not raising
I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the
archives of this mailing list, but...
There are many features of Unity (and also Gnome-shell) that are
different from previous desktops and in that sense non-obvious.
Would it make sense to have a 'tips' application running,
On 17/06/11 14:10, Joost Verdoorn wrote:
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> A beautiful example of a menu button:
> http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TdFlT_A0vxI/Eco/lWRn14SImeo/s500/mockups%20menu-experiments%20eog-menu-experiments.png
> http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TdFsJwK3UPI/Ecs
On 17/06/11 12:06, Adrian Maier wrote:
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> Hiding the menu seems to be considered by some people eye-pleasing ,
> but it breaks productivity.
> It's irritating to click on something that
> is_not_yet_visible_until_you_reach_there .
I understand your concern; I think this something that someone (
On 16/06/11 22:17, Matthew Bassett wrote:
> On 15/06/11 21:28, Matthew Bassett wrote:
> [some stuff deleted]
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>> 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
...or at the very least to be able to disable global menus for
non-maximized applications and to disable the menu hiding.
-~Chris
On 06/16/2011 05:51 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
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 neve
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:43 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com <
frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
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>> On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
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>>> But obviously our interaction hardware is
>>> aiming at immediacy, correspon
On 16 June 2011 19:26, Jarlath Reidy wrote:
> 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 search for the
> 'presence' of drives, i.e. find their icons.
By the way, you ought to try Nautilus 3 because the sideb
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:43, frederik.nn...@gmail.com <
frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
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>> On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> But obviously our interaction hardware is
>>> aiming at immediacy, corresponden
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> But obviously our interaction hardware is
>> aiming at immediacy, correspondence, rather than symbolic crypticism or
>> text-driven menu-isms.
>>
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> I can only guess you must be re
On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
But obviously our interaction hardware is
aiming at immediacy, correspondence, rather than symbolic crypticism or
text-driven menu-isms.
I can only guess you must be referring to (multi-)touch surfaces. But
that's an addition, not a repla
Hi Jariath,
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:26, Jarlath Reidy wrote:
> 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
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:08, Stefanos A. wrote:
> Matthew, I love your idea. With little twist:
loving the idea, too.
i wouldn't make it that humble tho, proper fields, perhaps the size of
browser tabs, would make sense to me for each menu ( View, Go, Edit ...)
- unmaximized windows get a me
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