Re: [Ayatana] preferred applications

2010-11-09 Thread Jan Claeys
so the "run in a terminal" option in the Alt+F2 run dialog, in launchers, and in .desktop files (used to create menu items). I agree that the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog should probably have a button(?) to open the Default Applications dialog though... -- Jan Claeys __

Re: [Ayatana] preferred applications

2010-10-11 Thread Jan Claeys
"mediaplayer" (e.g. many recent keyboards have a special key for that) or a "terminal emulator". -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://l

Re: [Ayatana] persistent awareness

2010-09-27 Thread Jan Claeys
ou are downloading an Ubuntu .iso over a slow link... ;-) -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-09-15 Thread Jan Claeys
gt; kernel will require restarting the system to complete successfully.. If you use 'byobu' it will show a reboot required "icon". That doesn't mean a warning at the end of an apt-get (dist-)upgrade run would be wrong though... -- Jan Claeys

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

2010-08-27 Thread Jan Claeys
t over PSTN costing around 3 € / hour in Belgium, before cable internet became widespread, so being on-line 1h/day did cost you almost 100 €... (And that was for a "free" account, meaning you only paid the phone company and not the provider, so during "rush hours"

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-08-27 Thread Jan Claeys
irefox would load everything from one big *.jar and keep that file open. Not sure what that would do to performance though, or if it has other disadvantages. -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatan

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-07 Thread Jan Claeys
ted using CSD is totally irrelevant. So, I would prefer to see *relevant* use cases or usability reports for CSD before we break consistency with the existing user experience... -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to

Re: [Ayatana] progress dialog mockups

2010-06-04 Thread Jan Claeys
do you indicate if the progress bar you show reflects time or size or ...? -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : http

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

2010-06-04 Thread Jan Claeys
;m not sure what people would need most?) > c) show sender and part of the mail title as a notification and a message in > messaging indicator > d) if possible: open evolution on the specific message clicked in messaging > menu -- Jan Claeys __

Re: [Ayatana] Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-05-22 Thread Jan Claeys
27;s windows, as there is no (obvious) functional difference in how people use these two applications? IMNSHO, *if* we really want 2 different "close" buttons, we need to find a better definition of the 2 types of "close" first. -- Jan Claeys _

Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-05-21 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 21-05-2010 om 08:26 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Philipp Wendler: > Am 20.05.2010 23:48, schrieb Jan Claeys: > > Op donderdag 20-05-2010 om 12:00 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Mark > > Shuttleworth: > >> We discussed auto-attenuating music when a *phone call* c

Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-05-20 Thread Jan Claeys
out of a "garbage folder" that normally only contains duplicate mails... :-( -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-05-19 Thread Jan Claeys
--+ | Banshee| --> is not running | ● Quod Libet | --> is running but not playing? +--+ | Sound Preferences... | +--+ Now if I would start music in Banshe or Quod Libet, Rhythmbox shoul

[Ayatana] hosting Ubuntu font for use on websites: Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Jan Claeys
http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/420.html -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Window close button is not consistent

2010-05-18 Thread Jan Claeys
mize-to-indicator button, even if you would expect the same behaviour in both cases. Another examples is where opening multiple documents might open one application in one case and multiple applications in another case. Again, that's an implementation detail you don't want to expos

Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed "minimize to tray" ?

2010-05-05 Thread Jan Claeys
O. BTW: it seems like most of the app-indicators in lucid aren't all that useful, as they tend to indicate nothing and just offer a bunch of menu options. I hope those get fixed in maverick... ;) -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://laun

Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed "minimize to tray" ?

2010-05-05 Thread Jan Claeys
ementation of the minimize metaphore. It > was removed as a "let's remove extra options" effort but I'd suggest it > could be worth revisiting as either a new default behavior, or at least an > optional behavior. That option is still there

Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

2010-04-28 Thread Jan Claeys
Same > if you use the GUI update-manager. I agree providing end-user upgrade notes might be a good thing, but of course those won't be ready until near the release, as not all proposed changes will end up in the release... -- Jan Claeys __

Re: [Ayatana] Panel menu in 10.10 Netbook UI

2010-04-28 Thread Jan Claeys
that don't have menus, and don't get maximized? In > that case, the top panel will just have a large empty space? I suggest you look at how that works now in the netbook remix/edition. -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: htt

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-28 Thread Jan Claeys
ted by a plugin (not sure if plugins for rhythmbox can add items to the preferences). -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

Re: [Ayatana] Skipping Multiple songs?

2010-04-27 Thread Jan Claeys
ou will want to do (skip, play/pauze, rate, ...?). -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Jan Claeys
ne, > it could be expected behaviour to have rhythmbox start in the > notification area. This could explain the users lining up to > scream. :) A simple checkbox in the preferences "[X] Start up with the main window hidden" should

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Jan Claeys
indow (especially when launched at startup, but maybe also otherwise), but I agree that that shouldn't be the default. -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-21 Thread Jan Claeys
Op woensdag 21-04-2010 om 16:57 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Martin Owens: > So long as it doesn't kill off the character pallet that I use for > printing ° and € :-) I'll be fine. You don't use "US International with AltGr dead k

Re: [Ayatana] Pulseaudio / Sound Indicator usability issue

2010-04-16 Thread Jan Claeys
ith the indicator sound. What about a solution like this: http://code.google.com/p/gnome-pulse-applet/wiki/Screenshots (The screenshots show 4 simultaneous streams, but of course in practice most of the time there won't be more than 1 or 2.) -- Jan Claeys ___

Re: [Ayatana] Tooltips

2010-03-25 Thread Jan Claeys
ood at detecting motion (a feature of rod cells), Considering that the indicator applet(s) are often in the user's peripheral vision, this should tell something about what's needed to call for attention from there... -- Jan Claeys ___

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-23 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 19-03-2010 om 08:53 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Mark Shuttleworth: > On 19/03/10 02:36, Jan Claeys wrote: > >> I'm not sure a typical flasher is a good solution. I think a > subtle > >> animation that triggered every 15 seconds or so might be a better

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-18 Thread Jan Claeys
oming phone call that was mentioned before). -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-18 Thread Jan Claeys
tion, it should be "annoying" (flashing or moving or something like that). (Tested on an up-to-date lucid system & restarted everything to be sure I had the latest indicator applet.) -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpa

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-18 Thread Jan Claeys
t attention (make a ringing sound, popup a bubble every 2 seconds, open a window, ...?), but IMO it's something that the indicator system/library should provide. -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post

Re: [Ayatana] Window button order

2010-03-18 Thread Jan Claeys
matter), and accidentally closing a window when you try to open a menu and you click a bit too "far" isn't cool... -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-24 Thread Jan Claeys
y is a very important part of accessibility! And replacing "Ctrl" etc. by symbols like Mac OS X does would be a good idea, except that obviously most PC keyboard don't come with those symbols printed on them... -- Jan Claeys __

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

2009-12-20 Thread Jan Claeys
;non-default application"? This seems like something that will conflict with custom remixes etc.? -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

[Ayatana] why doesn't indicator-applet-session's status menu show icons?

2009-12-20 Thread Jan Claeys
eople have an easy to find reference for those "status icons". What do other people think about that? -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchp

Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager

2009-12-20 Thread Jan Claeys
Op dinsdag 15-12-2009 om 10:03 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Alan Pope: > 1) I'm in the middle of work and don't want firefox to become unstable > as it does after an update BTW: Firefox becoming unstable after an update is something that the NixOS linux distro solved years ago.

Re: [Ayatana] Show real name in indicator applet

2009-12-04 Thread Jan Claeys
mean is that that way the user or admin can change it without risking too much bitrot in the code, as there would be only one key that is always used, even by a default setup... -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Pos

Re: [Ayatana] Question about Bug Reporting Tools in Ubuntu, from a design perspective...

2009-10-09 Thread Jan Claeys
('dia-gnome' or 'dia'). -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

2009-09-10 Thread Jan Claeys
like you want to reinvent Telepathy... But maybe that's a good idea: why not build this indicator as a telepathy-based application instead of reinventing stuff? That would also solve the current issue that for most people the indicator applet just duplicates information that's already visib

Re: [Ayatana] Notification in fullscreen apps

2009-07-11 Thread Jan Claeys
identify what's next to the spotlight (or something like that). IIRC the theme she prefered was "lighter blue" on "darker blue" (where the color might or might not be relevant, I don't know). -- Jan Claeys ___ Mail

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

2009-07-11 Thread Jan Claeys
t; (many people don't want to learn what "non-critical" means). Also, allow applications to set this state (but applications shouldn't set this state unconditionally). -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Pos

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 04-06-2009 om 13:39 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef David Siegel: > * Firefox + firefox flash videos Not only with flash videos, on my EEE 900 or when I have to use an old PC with a low resolution screen, I use Firefox's full screen mode quite often while browsing. -- Ja

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

2009-06-05 Thread Jan Claeys
en that's where we should put > the notifications. Might be useful to have a look at "GNOME 3" about that too then. If we can minimize "perceptive" changes when moving from gnome-panel etc. to gnome-shell etc., that would be a plus... -- Jan Claeys __

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-03 Thread Jan Claeys
Does something like that exist? -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

2009-06-03 Thread Jan Claeys
ease don't make things worse... -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed

2009-05-11 Thread Jan Claeys
ccessibility themes. So there is no way to make the notifications work for all people without making them themeable... -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://lau

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator message weighting

2009-05-11 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zaterdag 09-05-2009 om 09:21 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Martin Owens: > Although Evolution doesn't have any mailing list handling yet, (...) It has, enable the mailing list plugin? -- Jan Claeys ___ Mailing list: https://launc