Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread charlesa...@gmail.com
totally agree with the always visible on the global menu. don't want that top taskbar only displays empty bar most of the time, do we? :P /charles everytime i get ahead, i feel more dead. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Stefanos A. wrote: > For what it's worth, I've pretty much stopped using

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Stefanos A.
For what it's worth, I've pretty much stopped using menus since I started using 11.04. There are times when I forget menus even exist and stand there wondering how to perform some action - especially in applications I am not familiar with. Other applications with complex menus, such as gimp, have b

[Ayatana] Fwd: stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Tadej Rosa
I'm sorry, I forgot to add ayatana list to the recipients. Message below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tadej Rosa Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 18:27 Subject: Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar To: Jo-Erlend Schinstad If I may interject; I really d

Re: [Ayatana] Proposes to change launcher's behaviour with multiple windows

2011-10-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 18. okt. 2011 17:38, skrev David: "In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at a time instead of the whole group." Something is not right with the unity launcher for sure, multiple windows of th

Re: [Ayatana] Proposes to change launcher's behaviour with multiple windows

2011-10-18 Thread David
"In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at a time instead of the whole group." Something is not right with the unity launcher for sure, multiple windows of the same application is a massive pita a

Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 18. okt. 2011 12:50, skrev charlesa...@gmail.com: [snip] i guess, there's a lot to be done with this unity. if we're gonna copy mac osx/ios, at least we have to do it right this time! :D Learning and copying are two radically different things. I really don't want to have the menus visi

Re: [Ayatana] simple NLP in dash

2011-10-18 Thread Stefanos A.
2011/10/18 frederik.nn...@gmail.com > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 16:13, Christian Rupp wrote: > >> >> But I still don't like the idea behind, melting dash and Commands. I think >> keep on using [alt]+[f2] is a better choice. Anything else would confuse the >> "normal" user. >> > > that's a valid po

Re: [Ayatana] simple NLP in dash

2011-10-18 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 16:13, Christian Rupp wrote: > Am 17.10.2011 15:09, schrieb frederik.nn...@gmail.com: > > i'd like to type (and one day speak) natural language to achieve simple > things, such as adding an appointment to my calendar or showing all pictures > i copied, viewed, created or

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-18 Thread Tomasz Sałaciński
Hello, Sorry, I am not a Ubuntu developer, I have no power over what is included and what patches are accepted. I'm in doubt that my application will get into Ubuntu, I just wanted to share it with people that like to have such an app. In order to get everything working with this setting Fir

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-18 Thread Angel Guzman Maeso
2011/10/18 Tomasz Sałaciński > The text scaling factor setting is highly undesireable. Neighter Mozilla > apps or QT apps are respecting it. So with this change you'll get > smaller/bigger fonts on the desktop, but Skype, Guitar Pro and Firefox will > remain intact. This will make user to search

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-18 Thread Tomasz Sałaciński
The text scaling factor setting is highly undesireable. Neighter Mozilla apps or QT apps are respecting it. So with this change you'll get smaller/bigger fonts on the desktop, but Skype, Guitar Pro and Firefox will remain intact. This will make user to search "changing Firefox font size in Ubun

Re: [Ayatana] Ayatana dev list - attitude

2011-10-18 Thread charlesa...@gmail.com
I like the option #1. :) /charles everytime i get ahead, i feel more dead. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 16/10/11 10:50: > > ... > > > > I do still believe there's something has t

Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread charlesa...@gmail.com
dear Matthew, thanks for the link, i hope they listen to us and make an option to turn it on everytime. i also noticed that we could not put a link on the desktop, and also we could not adjust the order of the sidebar launcher, i have to remove all the apps and add it again to the sidebar to get

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-18 Thread Angel Guzman Maeso
FYI: Changing the text-scaling-factor is easy with gsettings: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor FACTOR FACTOR is a float value with high precision For example: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 0.9 Also, you can get the current factor

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 19:58: > > dear unity developer team, > > could you please reduce the default font and ui size of unity and > ubuntu overall, they really taking much screen real estate, or at > least give us option to reduce

Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefanos A. wrote on 16/10/11 15:24: > >> *Some* windows are ok to resize, because for those windows, the >> probability that people would resize them deliberately multiplied >> by the benefit from doing so is greater than the probability that >> peo

Re: [Ayatana] Ayatana dev list - attitude

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 16/10/11 10:50: > ... > > I do still believe there's something has to change regarding the up > to date software installation, just like in windows xp, though it's > old from year 2001, but we still able to install most

Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charles charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 20:02: > ... > > could you make the active application top menu appears all the time > on the task bar just like mac osx? > > it annoys me i have to hover my mouse to the top task bar each time > i