Re: [Ayatana] why compiz in place of mutter

2012-01-29 Thread Conscious User
Em 29-01-2012 10:58, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: On 29/01/2012 20:55, Conscious User wrote: Em 29-01-2012 10:10, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: On 29/01/2012 16:22, supernova wrote: Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it works very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and

Re: [Ayatana] why compiz in place of mutter

2012-01-29 Thread Conscious User
Em 29-01-2012 10:10, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: On 29/01/2012 16:22, supernova wrote: Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it works very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and more fat than the gnome-shell, as it happened for 11.10, 11.04, ... . I guess it is due to c

[Ayatana] GTK application menus

2012-01-20 Thread Conscious User
Hi, GTK applications, in particular GNOME core applications, are moving towards "supermenus". https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/gnomes-revamped-web-browser-is-minimal-mighty/ There is even a APIs to recognize those and render appr

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-02 Thread Conscious User
Em 02-12-2011 01:45, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: On 02/12/2011 03:45, Dylan McCall wrote: That this is the case should raise a red flag for everyone who has paid attention to NotifyOSD. A big part of the design is that an application can't control where notifications are. It can't treat a notificat

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Conscious User
Which reminds me, shouldn't we stop pretending that synchronous and asynchronous notifications are similar enough to deserve being close? They are not, and the current approach causes more problems than solves. What problems does it cause? The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no synchro

Re: [Ayatana] White text in lenses doesn't work well with light background images.

2011-08-30 Thread Conscious User
Le terça 30 agosto 2011 à 14:24 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 27/08/11 04:35: > > > > It's fantastically cool how the lenses background color changes with > > the desktop wallpaper. But when the wallpaper is

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Conscious User
Without explaining what is your idea for maximized windows, the usefulness of the mockup is very limited. Most people would agree that making the menubar moving left and right is not an acceptable solution, so explaining what would you do in the maximized case is essential. Le mercredi 20 avril

Re: [Ayatana] New natty scrollbar issues

2011-04-11 Thread Conscious User
> Sorry, but every pixel counts is not a definition of a problem. Before > coming up with a solution, first you have to define what the problem > you are trying to solve is. This is the supposed problem as defined by > Christian Giordano, the man behind this scroll bar implementation: > > "Today

Re: [Ayatana] why global menubar/application menu isn't such a great idea

2011-04-04 Thread Conscious User
Mitja Pagon a écrit: > You are making all sorts of false assumptions about how people > use computers. If you ever observed "regular" users you would know, > that most don't use keyboard shortcuts, some don't even know they > exist. Furthermore, I've personally once came across someone who > didn

Re: [Ayatana] Merging libindicate into libnotify

2011-04-01 Thread Conscious User
> The idea that all non-immediate "notifications" should be grouped > together in a single place, regardless of topic, is very much like the > idea that progress for all long-running tasks should be grouped > together in a single place regardless of task. It's the kind of > categorization that may

Re: [Ayatana] Merging libindicate into libnotify

2011-03-31 Thread Conscious User
Le jeudi 31 mars 2011 à 12:35 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit : > This is something that _is_ covered by a particular subset of the > notification specification; it's just that it isn't guaranteed. Gnome > Shell is doing what you want here: they went ahead and defined > persistent notifications, which

[Ayatana] Merging libindicate into libnotify

2011-03-31 Thread Conscious User
Hi, In Natty, the Ubuntu One item was moved from the Me Menu from the Messaging Menu. Was this agreed on by the design team? If it was, I think this is a good opportunity to wonder if there is still a point in trying to tie the Messaging Menu to messaging applications only. Currently, the messa

Re: [Ayatana] List of running windows of an application in the launcher quicklist

2011-03-27 Thread Conscious User
Le samedi 26 mars 2011 à 19:11 +, Luke Benstead a écrit : > On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > > The current way of switching between windows of the same app is > > time-consuming. The launcher icon has to be clicked twice for the > > 'spread' compiz view to get activated, and then

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator-sound and highlighting the track on mouseover

2011-03-27 Thread Conscious User
It is interactive: when you click on it, the track information is copied to the clipboard and you can paste it somewhere else. Whether this is useful, specially considering discoverability, is a different discussion. In my personal opinion... well, no. Le samedi 26 mars 2011 à 15:32 -0400, Bret

Re: [Ayatana] Improving Launcher behavior

2011-03-19 Thread Conscious User
The original Unity had top and bottom folding, and used an "intelli-folding" that essentially solved all the current problems: the last clicked icon was always kept in the same place, and top or bottom folding would be used depending on the situation. Think CoverFlow. I quite liked it, to be hon

Re: [Ayatana] Launcher pulse prominence

2011-03-19 Thread Conscious User
> I'm glad I'm not alone, then. Vish raised a good point on IRC. > Currently the backlight is set to always on, but if they change > that to "no backlight" or "toggle backlight" the pulse might be > more noticeable. I toggle the backlight completely off (with the arrows I don't see the point, and

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-18 Thread Conscious User
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > ... (I pretty much agree with the paragraphs before, so I'm simply omitting them...) > I think the Gnome Shell designers are badly underestimating the use > cases for minimize. Maybe... but the problem is, so is Unity, at least currently. It didn't remove minimizat

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-17 Thread Conscious User
> No Problem: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts) > Basically, in visual composition, when there are multiple objects > involved, it becomes pleasing to have one item surrounded by an even > number of objects (Thus an odd number). Five, IMO, brings clutter, > particularly to

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-17 Thread Conscious User
> I don't feel their argument for getting rid of the Minimize button > applies to Unity. It works great for Gnome, but we still have > somewhere to minimize windows to in Unity, thus the Minimize button > has a point. Several problems here: 1) The "somewhere to minimize to" was only *one* of the

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-17 Thread Conscious User
Ian Santopietro wrote: > What about flashing the menu with the title for the first, say, > five seconds that the window is open. That gives an indication as to > where the menu is, reduces visual clutter, and allows the user to get > a quick preview of what menu headers are available (File, Edit,

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-16 Thread Conscious User
> Is it a coincidence that the two of them worked in Open source projects > _before_ joining Canonical design team..? ;-) > > This topic has been hashed, re-hashed over-n-over again several times.. > I, for one, definitely see a huge improvement in communication from the > design team. Several m

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-15 Thread Conscious User
Remco wrote: > The thing I find jarring is that we have this mysterious design > team that basically discusses things behind our backs here at > Ayatana. I understand that a small team with face-to-face > meetings can be beneficial to design, but a problem lies in > communication and collaboratio

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-15 Thread Conscious User
Thorsten Wilms wrote: > The alternative would be to show both title and menu, but giving > the menu priority. For habituation and quick aiming, it's important > that the menu always starts in the same spot from the left (assuming > LTR reading direction). To guarantee that, without using an offse

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-15 Thread Conscious User
> I have a simple proposal to fix these problems: The application > title should be removed from Unity's menu bar. I'm reliably > informed that this would be extremely low risk, in that it > would involve changing two lines of code. But how would be the design for maximized windows? I'm guessing

Re: [Ayatana] Double side springboard! The video.

2011-03-15 Thread Conscious User
Looking good! I think the corner button could flip the launcher AND activate the Dash. It makes sense: - clicking on an application launcher closes the Dash if it's open anyway, so there's little use in making the "application side" available when the Dash is open - the tendency is to Dash

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-15 Thread Conscious User
> I use Thunderbird, which doesn't get hidden either. Evolution should be killed > with fire, in my opinion. The entire framework is convoluted as hell, and when > facing an unstable network, it hangs completely. Messaging Menu aside, I think > the whole issue of hanging due to an unstable networ

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-14 Thread Conscious User
In an effort to get *some* reaction other than Jeremy's to this thread, let me ask something to the people of this list: how many of you actually use Evolution? And how many of you feel confortable with the current way it's integrated to the Messaging Menu (and now Unity)? More specifically, how

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-14 Thread Conscious User
> Actually, and I already mentioned this to Phong, but that isn't a > mockup,, rather what my panel looks like after tweaking my Ambiance > theme. The Panel does follow the user preferences. My bad. Where I said "current visual of the panel" I actually meant "current visual of the launcher". The

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-14 Thread Conscious User
> Additionally, with the window title and controls visible in the panel > for maximized windows, I don't feel it's confusing for a user to > understand that the panel *is* the title bar in that case. A panel > that looks like the title bar is not required for this distinction to > be apparent; th

Re: [Ayatana] 'Control Center' should be in 'Launcher' not in 'Session Menu'

2011-03-11 Thread Conscious User
Mark Curtis wrote: > Someone else suggested putting it in the Me Menu > This would solve both problems of not being close > to Shut Down nor cluttering up the Launcher Ian Santopietro wrote: > I agree with putting it in the Me Menu. We can't > put everything only one click away, since with all >

[Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-10 Thread Conscious User
Hi all, Let me start the discussion by saying I agree with Matthew: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-coherent-behavior-for-apps-in-messagingmenu http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/quit/ "The engineering solution here is for messaging clients to split out

[Ayatana] Where did the top folding go?

2011-03-08 Thread Conscious User
Hello, I've been bugging Neil Patel about this on Twitter lately and would like to know what the rest of the team has to say. It seems that Unity has purposefully dropped the ability to fold icons on top and now only folds the bottom ones. Even after some weeks, I still think it's very awkward t

Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

2011-02-28 Thread Conscious User
It is true that Chrome does not currently cover the use case Matthew presented, even with the buttons on the right, but I think his point was that it *could* if the devs *wanted to*, while with buttons on the right, it is not possible without awkwardness. That said, I do question if two having di

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding the Sound Menu Spec's closing of inactive audio applications

2011-02-08 Thread Conscious User
Le lundi 07 février 2011 à 14:47 -0500, Brett Cornwall a écrit : > (...) Before the Ubuntu devs implemented the current behavior for Rhythmbox, I have *never* seen any application whose close button behavior depended on the circumstances. It's common to see close button inconsistency between d

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher window matching policy

2011-01-19 Thread Conscious User
Hi Jason, thanks for all the information. I think a wiki page is more efficient than a bug report for tracking those issues, so I started a crude draft in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/WindowMatching I already added pango-view as Paul pointed out. Please, if anyone sees mistakes (there are pro

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-19 Thread Conscious User
> @Conscious User & frederik.nn...@gmail.com - I think we have the same > taste. No, we don't. I explicitly said I was not interested in brainstorming about this. I just wanted a clarification because a lot of people who I was showing Unity to were asking me about touch-friendl

[Ayatana] The Unity launcher window matching policy

2011-01-19 Thread Conscious User
Hello, I was thinking about filing a bug (perhaps multiple, per-app bugs) to track all applications in the Ubuntu repositories (or at least all applications in a default install) whose windows are not being currently correctly matched to a .desktop file in the Unity launcher, causing ugly icons a

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-18 Thread Conscious User
> They are very different things, and a design that works well for one > will hardly ever work well for the other. I'm a little bit confused now because Mark's blog post about Unity clearly stated that some design decisions were motivated by touch devices. Is the Unity design still taking touch

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-18 Thread Conscious User
ssage- From: frederik.nnaji To: Conscious User Cc: ayatana Sent: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 8:39 am Subject: Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:26, Conscious User wrote: > It is futile to attempt to solve a problem that does no

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-18 Thread Conscious User
> It is futile to attempt to solve a problem that does not yet exist. What are you talking about? Ubuntu is being installed in touch devices as we speak: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/augen-improves-gentouch-78-teases-lenovo-u1-hybrid-competitor/ http://www.gizchina.com/2010/12/28/u

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-17 Thread Conscious User
> Hey Vish and other, > As told in https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04544.html, we > discussed that behavior at last UDS and it seems that emails shouldn't > be seen as a service. mpt will be able to develop it a little bit more > right now. One issue I'm now noticing at that blueprint disc

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-17 Thread Conscious User
> I'm particularly interested in this issue. I like the show on > hover, > but how is it going to be addressed in touch devices? > > eye-tracking? I'm not talking about the future. I'm asking how the designers are handling this issue *now*, for Natty. ___

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-15 Thread Conscious User
Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 23:39 -0500, Mark Curtis a écrit : > I figured the point raised in this topic would be that the global menu > items currently are only visible on HOVER. Something that is > impossible to do on a touch based device. I'm particularly interested in this issue. I like the

Re: [Ayatana] Gwibber and Empathy notifications overlap confusingly

2011-01-12 Thread Conscious User
> However, with Gwibber nothing happens. That's not true. The current version in the Maverick repositories add an entry to the message menu specific to the message, like Emnpathy does. And the current version in trunk uses entries with counts like Evolution, for the "Messages", "Replies" and "Pri

[Ayatana] Compatibility goals for Natty appmenu

2010-12-31 Thread Conscious User
Hi, I'm curious with respect to the appmenu compatibility goals targeted for Natty. So far there are some important apps non-compatible with it: XUL apps [Open,Libre]Office Swing apps SWT apps MonoDevelop I know that XUL is being worked on, but I heard no news about the rest. I'm particularly i

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread Conscious User
> Minimize should be deprecated, because it was a workaround for "hide" > window", which would have been a non-reversible gesture without tools > like docky or the unity launcher now, or the window list back then. > Minimize is a synonym for "iconify", now list to me the situations in > which you

[Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2010-12-30 Thread Conscious User
Hi, Currently the Unity launcher in Natty does not offer any way to restore minimized windows if another window from the same application is opened (the scale plugin is invoked instead, considering only non-minimized windows). I suppose this is because it's just an alpha, but what is the intended

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-12-22 Thread Conscious User
> > How about getting rid of the section headings and showing instant > messaging items on top, inboxes with their service-icon as prefix > below!? That *does* help cleaning up, but then we need another way of opening the IM program when no new messages have arrived.

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-12-20 Thread Conscious User
ng Menu to start Gwibber. Furthermore, > > to actually use the inactive status buttons in the MeMenu, the user has > > to start chat from the messaging menu, > > As Conscious user said, the IM status problem has always been a bug. The > Gwibber problem, on the other hand, is a design f

Re: [Ayatana] [Fwd: Re: Presence via Me Menu]

2010-12-20 Thread Conscious User
> > so.. what could the local relevance of "Invisible" aka "hidden" be? > is there any? > In IM being invisible means that you want the world to treat you like you were offline. That means not sending you anything, regardless of how important it is. Invisible can be seen as the ultimate maxim

Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber?

2010-12-11 Thread Conscious User
igned to be more functional with respect to microblogging thant it is now: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/MeMenu#Use%20cases -Original Message- From: Frederik Nnaji To: Conscious User Sent: Sat, Dec 11, 2010 2:36 am Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber? On Sat, 2010-12-11 at

Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber?

2010-12-11 Thread Conscious User
Well, I don't know how else "entry" could be interpreted... -Original Message- From: frederik.nnaji To: Conscious User Cc: ayatana Sent: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 3:45 pm Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber? On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:13, Conscious User wrote: As f

Re: [Ayatana] Launcher' icons size to big

2010-12-07 Thread Conscious User
Jason, while we're at this subject, could you please tell if Unity is going to follow the WM_CLASS "emergency fallback" that Docky currently uses? Since Unity is going to use those big icons, I'm particularly worried whether it will always ensure overriding small icons with large enough ones, ev

Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber?

2010-12-07 Thread Conscious User
I use Gwibber a lot. One thing I didn't like about the Gwibber integration with the Messaging Menu was how it showed message-specific entries instead of box entries with unread counts like the Evolution integration does. Ken Van Dine recently fixed that and I'm very happy for that. As for t

Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber?

2010-12-07 Thread Conscious User
Finally, it would be really nice if Gwibber pulled in my most current status update from Identi.ca and placed it into the Me menu, so I could see what my current status is when I go to update it. Interestingly enough, this has already been part of the specification for a long time now: https:

Re: [Ayatana] progress window chrome

2010-12-07 Thread Conscious User
Discussions about an eventual "progress indicator" aside, I think this is the kind of thing modal dialogs are meant to eliminate. http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-shell-modal-dialogs.png -Original Message- From: frederik.nnaji To: Ayatana List Sent: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 6:43 pm

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-29 Thread Conscious User
> Well, with the solution presented earlier, there would not be that > problem, because *all* apps which were not maximized would have their > menu below the titlebar, and if you think about it, so would the > maximized windows, only it's not just below the titlebar, it's on it. Please do not

Re: [Ayatana] Handling workspaces in Unity's launcher

2010-10-29 Thread Conscious User
> 2) Even for applications with a single window, I believe cases > where users are not interested in such association are > frequent. > Several users treat workspaces as extra space to be used as > needed (Gnome shell for example was designed with that >

Re: [Ayatana] Handling workspaces in Unity's launcher

2010-10-28 Thread Conscious User
Some comments: 1) Does not seem to work for applications with multiple windows (you already know that per your comment in Launchpad) 2) Even for applications with a single window, I believe cases where users are not interested in such association are frequent. Several users treat workspaces as e

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Conscious User
"Heh, yeah because that would be unbiased :p We're pretty good at getting used to a system, even if it's inefficient, and we'll defend that system because we are familiar with it. It doesn't mean it's a good idea!" I'm not talking about ***IF*** they are used to it. I'm talking about ***HOW

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-27 Thread Conscious User
Before any kind of conclusions, a survey with long-time OSX users should be made. After all, not only they use a Global Menu all the time, but a lot of them also have huge monitors. Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 17:23 +0200, Oscar RdG a écrit : > Hi there, > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM, A

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-10-27 Thread Conscious User
> I'd rather have the message just pop up in front of me then have to go > through a menu. That is about as close to real life as you can get. Disagreed. In real life, sometimes when someone calls "hey, do you have a sec?" and you are very focused and want to finish something first, you can tur

Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-20 Thread Conscious User
Frederik, I think you are confusing things. Vish didn't say the intention was to eliminate each and every textual information possible, just the tooltips. The bad situation is when an unclear icon tries to solve its unclearness by adding a tooltip. The problem is extra, unnecessary text, not

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-10-14 Thread Conscious User
> I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable. > I'd love to see suggestions for that. This is more or less one of the points I was trying to make with my original message. Technically, it does not *need* to have an effect, there's nothing wrong with having purely info

Re: [Ayatana] [ubuntu-art] Meerkat volume control design

2010-10-14 Thread Conscious User
Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 à 10:50 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dylan McCall wrote on 13/10/10 18:08: > >... > > Right now a regular menu item is used as a title in one place > > (Rhythmbox), and an action in another (Mute). The font and

[Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-10-08 Thread Conscious User
Hi, This has been discussed before but I don't remember what came out of it and could find the thread via Google. Seeing how indicator-datetime shows the full date and seeing how new independent projects like this http://blog.rtg.in.ua/2010/10/have-you-seen-my-weather-applet.html specifically

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-10-01 Thread Conscious User
Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 17:55 -0500, Apoorva Sharma a écrit : > to get a text box for a broadcast account in the MeMenu, the user has > to go to the Messaging Menu to start Gwibber. Not true. The text box will appear if the Gwibber service is running. If the user configures Gwibber to star

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-23 Thread Conscious User
> i still suggest morphing out the info text field from the bottom of > the indicator array.. > Replacing the indicators with a notification is also a good idea, but > seems to me to be more of a fancy theme for our notification bubbles, > the default imo should be near the indicators yet should

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-22 Thread Conscious User
> There seems to be this idea that allowing user control is poor design. To be more accurate, the idea is that allowing user control is often a way to sweep problems under the rug instead of actually solving them. Or, to put in another way, configurability is an option that makes people stop t

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-22 Thread Conscious User
Le mercredi 22 septembre 2010 à 11:01 -0400, Mark Russell a écrit : > On 09/22/2010 06:16 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think the design of our pretty bubbles is good, implementation not yet > > complete and i have only one flaw to comment on: > > Notify only! > > ATM the bubbles don't

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-18 Thread Conscious User
Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 16:24 -0500, Apoorva Sharma a écrit : > I went ahead and made a mockup of my "notification in the panel" idea, > borrowing heavily from what android does. I've attached an animated > gif showing a basic notification popping up. > > I want to make it clear that the

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-18 Thread Conscious User
oposes. > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Conscious User wrote: > > > >> I think it demonstrates a big pain point for the message indicator, > >> really. So, we get this nice, big message in the panel and then it > >> shrinks down to a menu item inside a l

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-18 Thread Conscious User
> I think it demonstrates a big pain point for the message indicator, > really. So, we get this nice, big message in the panel and then it > shrinks down to a menu item inside a little icon surrounded by other > little icons. Let's say there are a few different indicators lit up > for different re

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-17 Thread Conscious User
> I though we already established that notifications are even less > important than the least important of the user tasks? That's the only > possible justification for them being ethereal. To be more clear, I think this goal is *already* being achieved quite nicely by NotifyOSD *when mouse inte

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-16 Thread Conscious User
> It always has and still appears to me that the notifications should not > be completely ephemeral, or rather, not all notifications should be. > Instead there should be a log of some kind where I can look up what > happened while I was away. Maybe notifications need to come in various > levels o

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-16 Thread Conscious User
> I thought the current OSD design was based on the idea that it doesn't > matter if you miss one notification. ;-) So what would be wrong if > the notification was simply discarded in that case? It collided with a > much more important action, so it's only natural that it would yield > priority

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-16 Thread Conscious User
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 16:22 +0100, Michael Jonker a écrit : > With specific reference to Unity and the notification: > > We need to get ready for the touchscreen market. The present logic of > the notification is mouse-centric and will need to be overhauled for > touch screen. > > In thi

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-16 Thread Conscious User
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 13:29 +0100, Luke Benstead a écrit : > > > On 15 September 2010 17:25, Greg K Nicholson wrote: > On 15 September 2010 16:54, Conscious User > wrote: > > I know it's the space for the confirmation bubbles

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-16 Thread Conscious User
> A notification appears (the mouse cursor is not below the notification). > The user is now notified. When they move their mouse to that area (bear > in mind that they are 'notified' and have no further use for the > graphic) it once again fades away and reappears when the cursor departs. > This,

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-16 Thread Conscious User
> My point is that a x (close) button would dismiss this > intrusion to my focussed work immediately - or - moving the notification > to a position I can accept will give me the best of both worlds. Best of both worlds for your particular use case, but the truth is: neither option is fully ideal.

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-15 Thread Conscious User
I think somewhere in the NotifyOSD guidelines (can't find now), there was the idea that moving a bubble (and therefore the entire text it contains) is annoying for the user, so your mockup is not taking into account the case where a notification grows, because this would involve moving the bubble

Re: [Ayatana] OMG!Ubuntu a bane or a boon? [was]Re: The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Conscious User
Oops. Only after sending my last message I realized Vish replied only to me. Sorry about that and please ignore it. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayata

Re: [Ayatana] OMG!Ubuntu a bane or a boon? [was]Re: The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Conscious User
This reply is still going to the list because it concerns the transparency of the design process as a whole and is not restricted to OMG-related issues. (in my opinion) If you don't agree, it's going to be my last. Can you point to another list which would be more adequate? > UIF mention of the

Re: [Ayatana] OMG!Ubuntu a bane or a boon? [was]Re: The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Conscious User
> And I'm not talking about the articles themselves, I'm talking about the > comments since that was the rationale for the bug and the follow-up > consolidate! > > If I'm to mention about the articles, did anyone verify if it was indeed > the final wallpaper? It might well be! But, did anyone ve

Re: [Ayatana] The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Conscious User
> Backlash? Where? > Are we now considering the above mentioned blog as a representative of > the whole Ubuntu community? (...) Of course not, when did I say that? I'm comparing the current situation with previous ones about wallpapers that also included blogs, and I'm also considering the size

[Ayatana] The new default wallpaper

2010-08-29 Thread Conscious User
Hello, Some of you might be already aware of the controversy caused by the (supposed) new default wallpaper: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/ubuntu-1010-default-wallpaper.html http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/the-joke-that-is-mavericks-default-wallpaper/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/u

Re: [Ayatana] Sound menu slider interaction

2010-08-22 Thread Conscious User
> Because GTK sliders are consistent with the scrollbars in behavior. But this can be worked around, I suppose, since Rhythmbox's and Totem's playback sliders can be clicked to a specific point. Or are those different widgets? ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-17 Thread Conscious User
> It's on my radar for ConnectionManager that there should be a standard > API for telling whether there is an Internet connection or not, and for > invoking a troubleshooting assistant if there isn't. Then Web browsers, > e-mail programs, IM clients, and so on can integrate it as suits their > in

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu

2010-08-16 Thread Conscious User
While I like the AppMenu and I'm currently using it on Maverick even for the desktop (and I have a large resolution), I have to agree that "unified experience" is not a good argument in this case. If it was, there wouldn't be the need for a netbook edition at all. Le lundi 16 août 2010 à 18:33 +

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-07-08 Thread Conscious User
> Wow. This is the single neatest suggestion I've seen on the Ayatana > list. I particularly like the echoing of standard web presentation in > the menu, to cue users as to the purpose of the field. > > The rest of the thread has further good ideas, so I'm not +1'ing this > mockup as a final posi

Re: [Ayatana] Unity launcher - will an autohide option be available?

2010-07-06 Thread Conscious User
> I agree with the auto-hide to save screen space, but having it > reappear on proximity would be a pain - it shares space with most web > pages navigation bar, so it would often get in the middle of browsing. > > A better option for a hidden bar is the one supported by Firefox > Mobile ("Fennec"

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
> I've changed my mind: this is not a problem! So what if the text box > has focus automatically? That's a hidden feature. The text goes away > if you click on the box, but also when you just start typing after > opening the menu. These features co-exist. Explanatory text in a text > box seems to

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
Le mardi 29 juin 2010 à 15:54 +0200, Igor Vatavuk a écrit : > Hi, ayatana list! > Perhaps the text above the text-box should be in the form of a question, > similar to how Facebook, Identica and Twitter ask. > "What's on your mind?" or something like that. > Since Me-menu shows the text-box only

Re: [Ayatana] Me Menu - Review

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
> Actually I was suggesting we *don't* use different icons for the > MeMenu title and menu items. While colour would be useful as it's used > elsewhere (eg Empathy client) it conflicts with the specific meaning > colour has in the menu bar. And using mixed monochromatic/colour icons > for the menu

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
> I still think it's unclear what that text box does. I made a quick > mockup which adds some text to the text boxes, explaining what they > are supposed to do. This text goes away when the text box is > activated. The social networking text box says "Post Twitter > message..." when the Twitter ic

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
> Yes, the "broadcast field" is certainly a learnable feature in the > MeMenu. > It will make publishing your current thought to the world very > comfortable, i'm sure. > But please somebody help me understand why i have a field to publicly > log my thoughts next to IM presence status settings, w

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
> I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field. > But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still > would have to ask: Say where? To whom? I agree. In fact, seconds after sending the mockup I wondered if it wouldn't confuse users into thinking i

[Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
Hello, So I've been thinking: a big problem with the Me Menu comes from the fact that there is not an universally recognized word for the act of microblogging. There are "tweets", "dents", and Facebook made the rather poor choice of using "status updates" (increasing the confusion with IMs) One

Re: [Ayatana] Songbird's creative use of client-side decorations

2010-06-28 Thread Conscious User
> I think that makes two of two implementations that nicely illustrate the > concern that CSD is harmful for workspace consistency. I have to agree on this one. Visual inconsistency is one of the oldest complaints against Songbird. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Lack of harmony between panel applets

2010-06-28 Thread Conscious User
> In due course, similar capabilities will be added. But for the moment > it's minimalist. Here's me hoping that those similar capabilities will be implemented in a neat d-bus service way which follows an app-independent protocol, thus closing one of the most common complaints against the current

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