Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
eate some mock-ups when I find the time and post them in the hopes that they provide some inspiration to someone, somewhere (somewhen?). :-) Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. -- "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" -- Dr. Jonas Stalk, on being asked who owned the patent for his poli

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
nted correctly) the application title and the global-menu into a single, compact panel item (a single /locus/ where the end-user can both identify which application is active, and access its menus). Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. -- "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
toolbar (summoned by a single button, or clicking on the window title). Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. *I find that I intuitively recall the vertical position of a menu item, whereas I don't recall the horizontal position. Am I alone in this? Is this a known phenomenon? -- "There is no patent

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 11:41, SorinN wrote: > Using Close-Minimize-Maximize buttons on the left side on the window > top is a breach for example (if you> would have even the basic > understanding of the subject of usability you would know why...) +1 :-) Regards, Lee. -- "It is characteristic of theistic

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 11:12, Mitja Pagon wrote: >> Good stuff - the menu (M) button should be implemented by ages .. >> finally some necessary order regarding usability > > No it should not, it's a bad idea and a degradation of usablity and if > you would have even the basic understanding of the subject of

Re: [Ayatana] Me Menu, and single user irritation.

2011-03-17 Thread Lee Hyde
On 17/03/11 12:51, Saleel Velankar wrote: > I think on single user scenarios, the gconf key to show the name should be > toggled to 0 by default. That's a good idea. Though some thought needs to be given as to whether the existence of a guest account should toggle the gconf key back to 1/2 or not

Re: [Ayatana] Design problems in general

2011-03-16 Thread Lee Hyde
On 16/03/11 17:16, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > You actually don't disagree with the assesment, because to do so, you > would have to understand what I said, instead of just loading off stuff > that is bugging you, but has nothing to do with my post. I used my own frustrations to illustrate a point and

Re: [Ayatana] Design problems in general

2011-03-16 Thread Lee Hyde
On 16/03/11 15:00, Mitja Pagon wrote: > You picked the wrong example as "left-aligned" windows controls were not > a design decision "per se", but rather a decision based on Mark > Shuttleworth's own personal preference, as stated by himself. Never-the-less it was a design decision, simply one han

Re: [Ayatana] Design problems in general

2011-03-16 Thread Lee Hyde
On 16/03/11 13:01, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > If you are not under too tight constraints, the questionshouldn't be > how something is being done, not even how users would like to do it, but > rather: how should they do it? I thoroughly disagree with this assessment of UI/X design for the following re

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

2011-03-11 Thread Lee Hyde
On 11/03/11 15:51, M. Adnan Quaium wrote: > May be it can be renamed as "Desktop Preferences" or any suitable name > (if it is possible) rather than "Control Centre"... Changing the name won't change it's unsuitability for the Me Menu. It just doesn't fit there at all. If it must be placed in any

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

2011-03-11 Thread Lee Hyde
On 11/03/11 14:41, 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 > I can't imagine any justification for placing a Control Centre entry within the Me Menu (other than desperati

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

2011-03-11 Thread Lee Hyde
ch was the reasoning behind the shut-down and restart confirmation dialogues. As an aside, why were similar dialogues for standby and hibernate abandoned. That decision never made much sense to me, and I do hope it's reversed at some point. I can't count the number of times (actually I can,

Re: [Ayatana] Me & Messaging Indicator Menu

2011-01-01 Thread Lee Hyde
d). As an aside; the ideal solution to *custom statuses* would be if to defined then *as statuses* within the client/protocol itself. That would however require protocol updates to WLM/Yahoo/GTalk which are not likely forthcoming. :( Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. On 01/01/11 01:45, f