Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Philipp Wendler wrote: >Using ` is a horrible idea in my opionion, because this character is at >different locations on the keyboard in different layouts. For example on a >German keyboard, it is directly left of backspace, and needs Shift pressed to >access it. Furth

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 28, 2010, at 09:40 AM, Conscious User wrote: >I'm not talking about ***IF*** they are used to it. I'm talking about >***HOW*** they are used to it. So, I'm a long time OS X user and I've always been pretty happy about their user interactions. Before you jump down my throat :), let me also

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >Wait, I only now realized what your're talking about, and I disagree :) > >I disagree because what if you want to alt-tab between the two emacs windows? >That shortcut is unknown to me, and probably to every user coming from >windows or mac. Dani

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >The problem with that is that some apps have their name as the first menu >option, sou you'd see, for example, 'amarok amarok other_menu_items' That would be a problem with some applications, but it should be "easily" solved with a style guide an

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 27, 2010, at 05:23 PM, Oscar RdG wrote: >I am using the global menu indicator on maverick desktop for a week now, and >I love it. I have found out that I do not use very often the app menu so I >like it on the panel, far from the window app, even with the small >applications (eg. Empathy, G

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 27, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >when working with multiple, unmaximized windows, something I always feel when >using Mac OS X (specially when I want to open a menu item of a non-focused >window: in these cases I have to click the titlebar of the app, *then* access >the global me

Re: [Ayatana] mail-indicator, as an improvement of evolution-indicator

2010-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 03, 2010, at 05:19 PM, guido iodice wrote: >a) share account configuration from Evolution (of Thunderbird, if installed) Please make this generic, so that other mail clients can play along as well. In fact, it would be kind of nice if it were MUA independent, e.g. spoke IMAP natively. a-c

Re: [Ayatana] Getting rid of Evolution?

2010-05-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 18, 2010, at 05:43 PM, Martin Owens wrote: >I use evolution for my email, calendar and contacts and I try and >teach people how to use it. It's got a pretty bad design on the desktop. >A facsimile of Microsoft's Outlook with a non-standard backend data >store which is not useful to more

Re: [Ayatana] Window button order

2010-03-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
Put me in the camp of liking the new button location. In fact the whole Ambiance theme is the first default Ubuntu desktop theme I haven't felt compelled to customize (well, except for the Terminal background!). It looks stunning and very pleasant to use for long periods of time. Kudos. On Mar

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 13, 2010, at 01:35 AM, Matt Wheeler wrote: >The option is in System > Preferences > Appearance > Interface >(Editable menu shortcut keys) That's it! How intuitive . Really, this should be on Keyboard Shortcuts. >(Sorry for replying just to you at first, Barry. I wish Gmail would >guess

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Siegfried Gevatter wrote: >Thorsten Wilms proposed: «Additionally, hitting any meta key >could show them all (not just those with the meta key in question).» > >Wouldn't that be enough? Maybe so. What about when I invoke a menu from the keyboard? -Barry signature

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 12, 2010, at 02:50 PM, David Siegel wrote: >Barry, as a keyboard-heavy user, clearly removing keyboard shortcuts >categorically would be devastating, but how do you think the change to >only showing keyboard shortcuts for the highlighted menu entry would >affect you? It would be less conve

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 12, 2010, at 01:53 PM, David Siegel wrote: >Drawing upon the discussion surrounding the bug "Underline under >accelerator characters in buttons and menu bar should only show when Alt >is pressed"*, Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard >shortcuts in menus. At first, I tho