Re: [Ayatana] BFB (Dash Home button) does not match reference design

2012-01-25 Thread David Gorski
Oh, I definitely did not create this. It is an official canonical mockup made before oneiric (hence the old icons) as a target for the release. You can find it here on sabdfl's blog: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/717. It is also shown in the design draft for 12.04 settings: https://docs.

Re: [Ayatana] Unity sidebar improvement.

2012-01-25 Thread Petko
On 01/25/2012 09:21 PM, joy chalissery wrote: Unity now has only a sidebar to the left and a bar above. I ask why not provide with with bars on all sides with a self hiding feature it would be great. you could also provide page zoom slider on the side so that u dont need to use keyboard shortcu

Re: [Ayatana] HUD design ideas

2012-01-25 Thread Marco Kirchberger
Hi, yes I absolutely agree with you that is for 12.04 to radical but in generally with HUD you have the possibility. I think it is important that the users have both possibilities. HUD command search and traditional menu (only a other view). I created a small picture how I imagine this. http:/

[Ayatana] Unity sidebar improvement.

2012-01-25 Thread joy chalissery
Unity now has only a sidebar to the left and a bar above. I ask why not provide with with bars on all sides with a self hiding feature it would be great. you could also provide page zoom slider on the side so that u dont need to use keyboard shortcuts. Also with a bunch of customising features whi

Re: [Ayatana] BFB (Dash Home button) does not match reference design

2012-01-25 Thread Ryan Gauger
On 01/22/2012 10:34 PM, David Gorski wrote: The current BFB (Dash Home Button) does not match the original reference design. I know this isn't anything major, however it looks much more visually slick/professional and shouldn't be hard to implement. What do you think? A comparison image can b

Re: [Ayatana] HUD design ideas

2012-01-25 Thread Omar B .
I also don't generally think we should completely substitute the traditional menus. Let's think for a second how would a company like Apple would do this. I bet they would add a little search Icon next to their global menu which would then open a search-box, just like pressing ALT opens the se

Re: [Ayatana] HUD design ideas

2012-01-25 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 25. jan. 2012 16:03, skrev Marco Kirchberger: 1. Remove the whole menu from the Top Bar and replace it with a button. That would be way too radical for 12.04. That won't happen, or at least I hope so. The last thing we need now, is large and sudden changes. What we need now, is for new op

[Ayatana] HUD design ideas

2012-01-25 Thread Marco Kirchberger
Hi, I read today about new HUD for Unity and I think the idea is brilliant. But at the moment its only orientated to search menu entries. In my opinion the HUD have the potential to cover both. Command Search (Keyboard) and menu structure (Mouse Control) Here some ideas that should work: 1. Remo