Re: [Ayatana] Lots of mockups, but what is the problem you're trying to solve?

2011-11-13 Thread Shane Fagan
I have to say at the moment we need new icons more than more radically different changes to unity. Shane On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate looking at good mockups. But can > someone explain in a few words what the problem is? >

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-04 Thread Shane Fagan
add-apt-repository does it pretty easily. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Christian Rupp wrote: > For newbies its very hard to install their first ppa and also if you know > the way it takes you some time to install a ppa. Why don't just enable a > short link like href="ppa://ppa:matthaeus123/mr

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Fagan
I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. So when you open a fresh install it would ask you if you want the walk through and then do a series of animations showing how to open the dash, maybe the shortcut ke

Re: [Ayatana] "Games"-application idea

2011-05-03 Thread Shane Fagan
to have videos or regular > applications as well? I think it is a good idea but one that requires a lot > of thought and design, maybe it should wait for a later iteration of > Ubuntu... > Please continue the discussion :) > I think I will try make a mockup of such an application. Don

Re: [Ayatana] "Games"-application idea

2011-05-03 Thread Shane Fagan
On this entire thread I had a blueprint at the last UDS talking about how to improve the gaming experience on Ubuntu and it got some interesting responses although we didn't really do anything in the end with it but we came up with a list of things that we could do in the future and I think that wa

Re: [Ayatana] Thoughts on Unity design

2011-04-29 Thread Shane Fagan
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Phong Cao wrote: > I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not trying > to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far behind > GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. I recommend anybody in this email list try out > Fedora 15 & GNOME

Re: [Ayatana] Dynamic menu items

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Fagan
hey Mitja, On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Mitja Pagon wrote: > Nicely put,  to extend on you example, the problem Microsoft faced were not > pull down menus themselves, it was rather the fact that Office applications > acquired so much functionality, that pull down menus were no longer an > opt

Re: [Ayatana] Dynamic menu items

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Fagan
Shane. > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Shane Fagan > wrote: >> We can do it and also learn from microsoft's mistake. Im not saying it >> wouldnt be a challenge to make it work but I think we should be >> looking to do things like this to make the interface mor

Re: [Ayatana] Dynamic menu items

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Fagan
nged for a long time we should change that. --fagan On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: > Hello, Shane. > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Shane Fagan > wrote: >> I have a hard to explain idea so read it and ask questions if you >> don't understand wh

[Ayatana] Dynamic menu items

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I have a hard to explain idea so read it and ask questions if you don't understand what I mean :) I was looking at the stuff in the menu bars of applications and I was wondering if there is something you use a lot would there be any way to make it easier to access. So I was thinking logg

Re: [Ayatana] folders for unity

2011-03-13 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey David, I dont really love what you did here but when you use the firefox icon looks pretty sweet. --fagan On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:29 AM, David wrote: > Hi, > my idea: > we have 3 types of "folders" ( or mini-dash ;-) ) > one for files > one for launchers > and one for open windows (imagi

Re: [Ayatana] window and workspace management in unity

2011-03-09 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Bazon, On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Bazon wrote: > Nice timing for you, Shane, but unfortunately no one else seems to care? > Give them a chance they will comment soon id say plus Mark tends to do batch replies to this list so it may take a little while to get back but he is great for answ

[Ayatana] A better chat experience

2011-03-08 Thread Shane Fagan
Ok so ive been thinking a lot about chat and empathy/telepathy is awesome but Shell is pulling away from unity in terms of how to best use it. At the moment we have the default empathy so we have the window and messaging menu system. While Shell has a special chat notifier that you can see the cha

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-08 Thread Shane Fagan
Ill reply to this entire thread with a counter idea. How about removing the other two buttons and just having the ubuntu button in the left hand corner. Myself in practice I clicked on the ubuntu button and searched for the thing I wanted to do and since the search is good I got to the app or file

Re: [Ayatana] window and workspace management in unity

2011-03-07 Thread Shane Fagan
Nice timing I did a post on ubuntu planet about workspaces and had some opinions on it http://shanefagan.com/opening-applications-on-different-workspaces/ TBH I think we can do some nice stuff with workspaces if we think hard about it. The issue is we need to be very careful since they are already

Re: [Ayatana] Launcher DnD - import applications on DnD start

2011-02-10 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Sam, If I understand you right you want to allow applications to be opened on the file by dragging the file to it then im all for it. It doesnt sound like a whole lot of work to get it working either. --fagan On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 23:26 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > Hi there, > > I was

Re: [Ayatana] Unity widgets mockups

2011-02-05 Thread Shane Fagan
I like the idea of widgets but if we do it we should do something new. The mockups on that wiki page look a lot like every other widget system. fagan On 5 Feb 2011 14:38, "dani" wrote: Hi, i'm Daniel you probably knows me for other ubuntu mockups and ideas. Today i present widgets factory for u

Re: [Ayatana] Gwibber and Empathy notifications overlap confusingly

2011-01-12 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, On this entire thread I have 1 comment and I havent been following any of it so forgive me if im repeating what someone else said. The comment I have is that you can use both facebook and gtalk in empathy and you can also get status updates from facebook and buzz. The one thing id like t

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-03 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, Since you agree can you put someone onto it for us. I would probably do it myself but it seems like a good bit of work and I have exams next month and I dont know if the evolution upstream would accept the patch. --fagan On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 00:03 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 21/12

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-03 Thread Shane Fagan
, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 10/12/10 06:52, Shane Fagan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:04 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: > >> Just wanted to check. Are Windicators targeted for Natty? How much > >> work has been done? What if I wanted to play with it a little? > > No

Re: [Ayatana] Autostart in Quicklists.

2010-12-28 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Owais, I didnt hear anything about it but it wouldnt be hard to implement. The question is would the regular user use it? I dont think it would be a good idea putting a start at login thing I prefer to have that in the preferences of the apps themselves. --fagan On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 02:26 +

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-12-09 Thread Shane Fagan
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:04 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: > Just wanted to check. Are Windicators targeted for Natty? How much > work has been done? What if I wanted to play with it a little? No there was no talk about anything unless canonical have it going on it. --fagan ___

Re: [Ayatana] Do You Use Gwibber?

2010-12-06 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 01:58 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > esteemed readers, > > Do you use Gwibber? > > It would be quite gratifying if this thread could produce some > statistics or opinions. > I'm currently evaluating the role of Gwibber in the Ayatana subsystem. > > We currently ha

Re: [Ayatana] Applications suggestion according to hardware capabilities

2010-11-17 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, I cant see any problems detecting if the computer has 3D compatibility, the processor speed and ram since they are readily available but if you want to get into webcam detection and other external stuff it would require a little bit of work. The 3D compatibility, speed and ram are very useful

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu on the Desktop

2010-11-01 Thread Shane Fagan
I agree with the idea of less wasted space. So putting in the global menu into the desktop for maximized apps is a good idea. If its a huge screen its a lot easier to throw your mouse up to the top of the screen than go for the menu bar in the app I think. It might be slightly further but it requir

Re: [Ayatana] Sound theme - startup

2010-10-30 Thread Shane Fagan
It is very true and changing the entire sound theme has been kinda overlooked over the past 2 cycles and it really needs a revamp. It has been mentioned on this list at length but nothing seems to be happening. Id say Canonical need to either pay someone or do some sort of promoted competition for

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Shane Fagan
Yeah the btw play a little sound to go with that is a little bit too far. I think it has to be two separate events so you can use the audio api without having to create a messaging menu item. --fagan On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 09:31 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Right now, an application has to do t

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Shane Fagan
Interesting idea, well it would be trivial to make a dbus listener that plays a sound depending on the message. So why not :) --fagan On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 20:42 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: > IMO, messaging menu should support audial notifications too. It should > be able to play sounds upon arrival

Re: [Ayatana] SVG default wallpaper was: OMG!

2010-09-06 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Mark, I presume its just Martin's script is needed. --fagan On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:30 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 05/09/10 06:07, Martin Owens wrote: > > Well you know how gullible I am for making things for free ;-), here you > > go your feature request has been granted: > > > >

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

2010-08-29 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I hate to be the mailing list police but this thread is going really off topic. Criticism of OMG!Ubuntu isn't what this list is for. The guys could have handled the harsh comments but really its up to them and it is a private site so they can do what they want. They have a coc on the site

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-21 Thread Shane Fagan
w this... > > > [1] http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/new-ubuntu-1010-font-available-for.html > > > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 16:46, Shane Fagan > wrote: > >> Well there is a problem that the font isnt out yet to the public and I >> dont think most of the ads people

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Well there is a problem that the font isnt out yet to the public and I dont think most of the ads people are making are ubuntu members. If a person is making an ad is there a way to give them access to the font to make the branding consistent? --fagan On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Mark Shuttle

[Ayatana] Highlighting recently installed software in the menu

2010-08-20 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I had an idea after I installed something and that was I just installed this program but where did it go? Then I looked for the program and found it in the menu so I was thinking we can make it easier by highlighting the menu entry of the recently installed programs. Also I thought it wo

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-20 Thread Shane Fagan
Well I was trying to make up a few but pitivi doesnt do transitions or other effects so I couldnt make anything nice --fagan On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Blackhall < johnny.one@gmail.com> wrote: > I was hoping to make a few nice videos of Ubuntu 9.10 (similar to what > you're de

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-20 Thread Shane Fagan
oted to open source ideology interact with fan art? > > I don't know if the Ayatana list is the right place for this discussion, > but I'm curious about Canonical/Ubuntu's philosphy for walking that line, > navigating that challenge in an innovative, open source way.

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-20 Thread Shane Fagan
somewhere :) > > Cheers, chr > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Shane Fagan > wrote: > >> Well of course we have to get the brand correct and all but we should >> support any efforts to promote Ubuntu. >> >> --fagan >> >> >>

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-20 Thread Shane Fagan
Well of course we have to get the brand correct and all but we should support any efforts to promote Ubuntu. --fagan On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Christian Giordano < christian.giord...@canonical.com> wrote: > Shouldn't we promote our style guides? Sure they probably don't include > video ed

Re: [Ayatana] Rhythmbox sync

2010-07-11 Thread Shane Fagan
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 22:19, Shane Fagan > wrote: > Hey all, > > I was listening to the UDS session remotely a couple of months > back and > I remember the rhythmbox maintainer said that sync support is > in the >

[Ayatana] Rhythmbox sync

2010-07-10 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I was listening to the UDS session remotely a couple of months back and I remember the rhythmbox maintainer said that sync support is in the next version of rhythmbox. So its in maverick but what I thought is that its not at all obvious to get to. You click on the device name then there i

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-07-07 Thread Shane Fagan
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 07:47 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 30/06/10 14:15, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > I agree that the F-Spot example isn't status; I couldn't think of > > anything appropriate for that. :-) > > > > Does F-Spot not have an online / offline mode yet? > It doesnt but I sup

Re: [Ayatana] Is RGBA not intended to be used with Metacity or just ignored?

2010-07-03 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, Composition isnt on by default for metacity thats why it doesnt work. Its not on because it lowers the system requirements for running Ubuntu and because compiz offers better composition anyway. I havent tested rgba at all I will when a theme is pushed that uses it but id say it would work wi

Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about unclutter

2010-07-02 Thread Shane Fagan
Actually a lot of things get pushed to the alpha and beta releases that get pulled before release. So it might not be default anyway. Development releases are for testing after all. --fagan On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 23:31 -0500, cmaglothin wrote: > I know its default because I'm using maverick and it

Re: [Ayatana] Updating UI issues

2010-06-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey David, You cant get much simpler than a checkbox IMO. I can see what you are going for but id prefer something a little bit simpler the words show/ignore/important..etc are very important words and shouldnt be used mainly because it puts people off using it out of fear that they are doing some

Re: [Ayatana] Secure Identity Design

2010-06-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Martin, I wouldnt recommend adding it to the me-menu at all. Putting it in accessories and just having it there would be a lot better. The reason is kinda obvious most users dont use gpg keys and wouldnt have any need for them to be there. Maybe you could add it to about-me instead. Great id

Re: [Ayatana] Updating UI issues

2010-06-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Looks very complicated to me. I know what it does but what about new users? On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:36 -0700, David Hamm wrote: > xcf has possible menu options. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Updating UI issues

2010-06-21 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 08:28 -0700, David Hamm wrote: > "https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdateHandling#Installing"; > > > did someone mentions Transformers? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akNJ6S2UqsE > > > apologies ahead of time, transformers are awesome. > > > On a more professional note.

Re: [Ayatana] Updating UI issues

2010-06-20 Thread Shane Fagan
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:13 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Shane Fagan wrote on 18/06/10 23:08: > >... > > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:42 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >... > >> I have now comp

Re: [Ayatana] Updating UI issues

2010-06-18 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey mpt, Could you give me a task and priority list? I have some time until alpha 2 ish to do some development after that im going to be doing some quickly work. --fagan On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:42 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 >

Re: [Ayatana] VPN

2010-06-17 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Siegfried Gevatter wrote: > 2010/6/17 Frederik Nnaji : > > i hope we'll have a wizard for mobile broadband setup soon.. > > There is... If I connect a 3G modem or phone NetworkManager asks me > whether I want to connect to it... Maybe your device is not supported

Re: [Ayatana] VPN

2010-06-15 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:37 +0200, Philipp Wendler wrote: > Hi, > > Am 14.06.2010 16:21, schrieb Shane Fagan: > > I see you guys are planning the design of the networking menu. My > > question is do you really need vpn in there? Is it something that we > > need to expos

[Ayatana] Send to dialog confusion

2010-06-14 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I was sending a file to a friend using sent to and I noticed that it doesnt give any indication of the progress of the transfer or even if the user has gotten it. I found out that the send to dialog stays on the screen until they get it but I think it needs some sort of better indication.

[Ayatana] VPN

2010-06-14 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I see you guys are planning the design of the networking menu. My question is do you really need vpn in there? Is it something that we need to expose to every user? Barely any desktop (or netbook) user uses vpn at all they mainly use normal lan, dsl or mobile so why not add a configure ne

Re: [Ayatana] Should we create a "distro-upgrade testing" team?

2010-06-14 Thread Shane Fagan
This isnt really the list for this please take it to ubuntu-testing. --fagan On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:40 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > sounds interesting! > > On 2010-06-11, Lance wrote: > > Undoubtedly this may sound kind of crazy, but I've been "iso-testing" for > > nearly two years. > > >

Re: [Ayatana] Software Center Donate Button

2010-06-04 Thread Shane Fagan
This thread is kind of off topic for this list you should be talking about it on devel-discuss or ubuntu-desktop. This list is for user experience and donate buttons havent got anything to do with that. --fagan On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 18:07 +0300, Toni Ruottu wrote: > Who would get to decide where

Re: [Ayatana] Libappindicator rejected as an external dependancy for Gnome 3.0

2010-06-03 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 18:22 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > As mentioned in > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.devel.announce/101, > libappindicator was rejected for use as an external dependancy for > Gnome 3.0. As I understand it, that means that applications supported > as a part of t

[Ayatana] Sound theme update

2010-06-01 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, Is there any more movement on the sound theme yet for the light themes Mark? I didnt see any blueprints at the UDS for it. --fagan ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] Chrome desktop notifications (and APIs)

2010-06-01 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Alex, Its not just in chrome. Its going to be in the HTML5 spec too. It would be very easy to write an extension to chromium to handle all the notifications natively. I dont have the time to fiddle about with chromium's extensions but im sure we could do it in the future. --fagan On Tue,

[Ayatana] Greyspace dragging

2010-06-01 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I was using totem and I wanted to drag it. So I went up to the top of the window and dragged it. When I did that I thought to myself "what about the greyspace on the bottom of the screen?". There is a load of space between the video control and the volume that could be used to grab the wi

[Ayatana] Updating UI issues

2010-05-26 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I have a bone to pick with the update system in Ubuntu. It hasnt changed since I started using Ubuntu (Gutsy). For one I dont think we should get asked our password to check for updates. (Thats a big one for me). I dont even think by default the user should have to check at all. I think

Re: [Ayatana] Encrypted DVD issues

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 00:00 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > > The problem with DVDs compared to MP3s is that they require paying for > > DVD playback and for MP3s you get 100 free licences so unless you are > > going for a huge deployment your not braking any laws. > > So DVD playback is pay per li

Re: [Ayatana] Encrypted DVD issues

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 23:40 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > Le mardi 25 mai 2010 à 18:30 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > > Absolutely, this is something we can and should fix in Maverick. We plan > > to be selling one or two bits of commercial software in 10.10, and for > > well-known legal r

Re: [Ayatana] Encrypted DVD issues

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:30 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > Absolutely, this is something we can and should fix in Maverick. We > > plan > > to be selling one or two bits of commercial software in 10.10, and for > > well-known legal rea

Re: [Ayatana] Encrypted DVD issues

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:30 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Shane Fagan wrote on 25/05/10 15:28: > >... > > I noticed that when I double click a DVD movie on the desktop it opens > > the folder in nautilus. C

Re: [Ayatana] Encrypted DVD issues

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:30 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Shane Fagan wrote on 25/05/10 15:28: > >... > > I noticed that when I double click a DVD movie on the desktop it opens > > the folder in nautilus. C

[Ayatana] Encrypted DVD issues

2010-05-25 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I noticed that when I double click a DVD movie on the desktop it opens the folder in nautilus. Can we open it in totem instead? It seems like slightly bad behaviour to add an extra click there. Also can we improve the installing of DVD playback? At the moment the user has to find and run

Re: [Ayatana] Clock Menu Redesign [was: Evolution && is: progress]

2010-05-24 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:47 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 21/05/10 18:47, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > Hi Nicholas ;) > > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 18:01, Nicholas Ipsen wrote: > > > >> I think it would be nice to include a weather indicator, maybe to the left > >> of the Clock? I certain

Re: [Ayatana] Epiphany as a desktop-consistent web browser in Ubuntu

2010-05-17 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:15 -0700, Tyler Brainerd wrote: > Aren't we after the application selection stage? Any change would have > to be 10.10 +1 Well we are but id say if there was something important that was missed im sure the desktop team would want to talk about it. I mentioned Epiphany an

Re: [Ayatana] Menu complication

2010-05-17 Thread Shane Fagan
. > > David So David will this happen for Maverick or Maverick+1 for the desktop? > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Shane Fagan > wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I looked recently at the system menu items and I have to say even I got > > confused. Theres just

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

2010-05-17 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:11 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 15/03/10 16:15, Akshay Gupta wrote: > > 1.) Make the OSD customizable > > * setting up persistence time > > * UI modifications over a basic structure > > * Font size/style > > ...other similar stuff we can decide

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle long labels in indicators?

2010-05-16 Thread Shane Fagan
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 17:51 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 16/05/10 16:54, Shane Fagan wrote: > > Anyone have any ideas how to do the long labels without them looking so > > strange? > > > > Classically, the content scrolls-and-pauses, on a repeating cycle. >

Re: [Ayatana] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-12 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I completely missed this thread so sorry if im going over anything someone else said. I like the idea of switching from double click but we'll have to handle when people double click so we dont open multiple instances when people expect the previous behaviour. Other than that id agree with

[Ayatana] Redesigning the Ubuntu mouse cursor for simple notification of app attention

2010-05-04 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, Since we are looking to innovate for 10.10 how about something as fundamental as the mouse cursor. Ok at the moment we have very simple and old school but maybe we can do some indications with the mouse cursor, im doing something, you can type here...etc. What im thinking is that if som

Re: [Ayatana] "Unsaved state" and the Cloud

2010-05-04 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 21:38 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 03/05/10 20:41, Diego Moya wrote: > > So my four dimensions for cloud storage are these: > > - Location: Connected vs Disconnected. > > - Speed: Fast vs Slow medium. > > - Persistence: Saved vs Unsaved. > > - Sharing: Published vs Pri

Re: [Ayatana] How do I know when I'm connected to the network successfully?

2010-05-03 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Scott, I actually find the network indication ok at the moment. When the bars are ascending its connecting, when there is no animation its connected, if its failed to connect the password dialog pops up. If you click on the icon it tells you what you are connected to and offers a disconnect be

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-03 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, In terms of the sound indicators id like if all the sound levels could be controlled from the main sound indicator rather than having 2 sound level controls. So when an application that uses sound starts playing, another sound level bar is added with a description above it. Just an idea but I

Re: [Ayatana] Finger Swipe Gadgets

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
e to a broken > camera :-) > > Alex. > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Shane Fagan > wrote: > I wouldnt think it would be that hard to get it working with > the > integrated web cam. If its done right it would be awesome. > >

Re: [Ayatana] Finger Swipe Gadgets

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
I wouldnt think it would be that hard to get it working with the integrated web cam. If its done right it would be awesome. -fagan On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:56 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 09:56 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Best we get those finger-swipe gadgets work

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 20:45 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op dinsdag 27-04-2010 om 08:27 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Marc > Deslauriers: > > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 22:10 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:17 PM, David Siegel > > > wrote: > > > > I witnessed this bug bitin

Re: [Ayatana] Panel menu in 10.10 Netbook UI

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey Mark, Could we do something similar in the desktop edition? My screen doesnt have the highest resolution and having 2 bars and the menu strip takes up a lot of space. I know that Gnome shell is a single panel (for the moment anyway) but can we do a global menu for gnome shell as well? (and I

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 18:08 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:51 +1200, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: > > I don't like the idea of having an extra button only for apps that > > close to the notification area, if that's what you mean. > > > Nope.. no extra buttons. > I meant , instead o

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
> specifically choose "Quit." I still dont think that its right to use the close button. Thats why I suggested in my last email making another button just to minimise to the notification area. > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Shane Fagan > wrote: > Hmm

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
H would it be crazy if I propose making a different button for minimising to the notification area? Its just if the close button means close the program in most users mind and the minimise button means leaving the window open but hiding it away, then what should the new user expect to minimise

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-27 Thread Shane Fagan
mized and closed from the menu. > > People are now just finding it easier to close from the indicator menu > and noticing the age old bug. > Time to fix the bug? ;) > > > > > > On 27/04/2010 6:27 AM, "Shane Fagan" > > > wrote: > > > &

[Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

2010-04-26 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey all, I was playing a song in rhythmbox and I pressed the close button (the x button) and currently it stays running in the background. I wondered to myself is the close button meant to be close window rather than close program? -fagan ___ Mailin

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

2010-04-26 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 14:35 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > hi there, conscious :D > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:11, Conscious User wrote: > > We should also keep in mind that the average user is probably > > a slow typist. > > there's nothing better for a slow typist than autocompletion whereve

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

2010-04-26 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 13:30 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > > Well the Shell guys still arent convinced about using Zeitgeist yet but > > tracker and Zeitgeist would be very powerful for FAYT. Using Zeitgeist > > you could filter the results of searches going by their regular activity > > for instan

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

2010-04-26 Thread Shane Fagan
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 11:11 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > Le lundi 26 avril 2010 à 09:36 +0100, David Siegel a écrit : > > But seriously, FAYT ("Find as you type") is a simple and powerful user > > interface idea that we've been slow to adopt, and I would love to > > explore these ideas further an

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey mpt, I think the target is far enough but I wouldnt like to remove it from the default install until upstreams adopt the new spec fully. Which will take a long enough time. I think remove it cold turkey from the next LTS release just to give it fair warning to universe app developers/maintaine

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Light system sounds

2010-04-14 Thread Shane Fagan
Whoops I thought it was just the startup and shutdown sounds from the forums post. Nice set some sound a lot like Kubuntu and some sound a little Vista like but I like them. Nice work. -fagan On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:15 -0500, S. Christian Collins wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Someone on the ubuntuf

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Light system sounds

2010-04-14 Thread Shane Fagan
Hey, Thanks for the effort on this. The sounds on that thread sound a lot like the Kubuntu sounds when KDE 4 was first introduced. I like the sounds though. Id like if the sounds were a little more complete so a sound for new IMs, for errors(maybe) and window and button sounds (if anyone actually

Re: [Ayatana] gnome 3 interface?¿

2010-04-03 Thread Shane Fagan
ication indicators too and it seems that the Shell guys want to do something cool here but it may not be within the spec of the app indicators so maybe it will have to be tweeked for the Gnome 3.0 release of Ubuntu. Regards Shane Fagan ___ Mailing list:

[Ayatana] "Less is more" a look at evolution

2010-03-26 Thread Shane Fagan
one else any thoughts on Evolution? Regards, Shane Fagan -- Software development student ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

Re: [Ayatana] Web application notifications vs. Notify OSD

2010-02-11 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 07:04 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Thanks for posting the discussion, MPT. > > Your suggestion of a dedicated, managed window for this seems quite > reasonable, at least as a starting point. Separately, it might be worth > exploring a persistent indicator as a placeholde

Re: [Ayatana] Application indicators in gnome shell

2010-01-21 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:24 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 23:01 +0000, Shane Fagan wrote: > > Well would the implementation of the application indicators have to be > > revisited for lucid+1 because Shell doesnt have a way to embed things in > > its panel lik

Re: [Ayatana] Application indicators in gnome shell

2010-01-21 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 16:40 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 00:56 +0000, Shane Fagan wrote: > > I just wanted to ask about application indicators in gnome shell. The > > screenshots they have made up may not work with the spec. Here is how > > they want rhyth

[Ayatana] Application indicators in gnome shell

2010-01-14 Thread Shane Fagan
with the application indicator's spec currently? Regards Shane Fagan ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpa

Re: [Ayatana] The Gnome Shell notification system

2010-01-14 Thread Shane Fagan
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:05 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote: > On 01/14/2010 03:51 PM, Shane Fagan wrote: > > Ive been testing gnome shell for a good while now and recently they have > > introduced a new notification system. > > Do you have more information about this? &

[Ayatana] The Gnome Shell notification system

2010-01-14 Thread Shane Fagan
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Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

2009-11-09 Thread Shane Fagan
. I think they want to get away from the "old" model but they havent thought of anything concrete to replace it yet. Regards Shane Fagan -Original Message- From: Mark Shuttleworth To: Ayatana List Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are n

Re: [Ayatana] Collaborative design dilemma

2009-10-16 Thread Shane Fagan
section on brainstorm to deal with Ayatana? Maybe it wouldnt be so bad to having a high level list with more focused views. So +1 on my end as long as we can still see it publicly and are still free to comment on it here in the public list. -- Regards Shane Fagan IRC nick: fagan http

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