Re: [Ayatana] Software Center Donate Button

2010-06-04 Thread Toni Ruottu
Who would get to decide where the money goes? Should Canonical just give the cash to someone hanging on the project's irc channel? Or should there be some kind of verification process, where the main developer needs to prove he actually wrote most of the software? Who would be paying salary to the

Re: [Ayatana] jam windicator

2010-05-28 Thread Toni Ruottu
You are right, although I still wonder if people find the system manager when they need some of its functionalities. --Toni On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Conscious User wrote: >> I just want to point >> out that the jam windicator would not only show jamming, but make the >> process specifi

Re: [Ayatana] jam windicator

2010-05-28 Thread Toni Ruottu
seems like a better place for this kind of information. --Toni On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Hi Toni ;) > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:54, Toni Ruottu wrote: >> >>  hello >> >> Excuse me for not following the windicator discuss

[Ayatana] jam windicator

2010-05-27 Thread Toni Ruottu
hello Excuse me for not following the windicator discussion earlier too closely. I just read about the planned categories, and wanted to point out that the list is lacking a resource consumption management category, or jam windicator as I'd call it. The icon should show whether or not the releva

Re: [Ayatana] Shutdown dialog countdown

2009-12-09 Thread Toni Ruottu
Here is a mockup of my idea. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Toni Ruottu wrote: > First thing that seems wrong with the dialog is the placement of > buttons in relation to the message. We should decide whether this is a > message for the cancel button saying "You have x seconds le

Re: [Ayatana] Shutdown dialog countdown

2009-12-09 Thread Toni Ruottu
First thing that seems wrong with the dialog is the placement of buttons in relation to the message. We should decide whether this is a message for the cancel button saying "You have x seconds left to cancel poweroff", or whether it is a message for shutdown button saying "this button will be auto

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu User Experience Guidelines

2009-10-03 Thread Toni Ruottu
>> I don't think most people want to get IM messages while they are >> watching a movie. After all movies are a way of escaping the real >> world and IM messages would completely ruin the escape. > Maybe I like the real world better or the movie is crappy ;) Oh. I completely forgot people who wat

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu User Experience Guidelines

2009-10-03 Thread Toni Ruottu
> The Ubuntu User Experience is aimed to be usable, helpful, unobtrusive, > evolving, stable, powerful beautiful, simple, consistent, customizeable, > and warm. +1 unobtrusive ;-) Some other Linux-based systems never call for your attention. One of Ubuntu's strengths is that it tells you when som

Re: [Ayatana] Notify OSD: Talk about giving the user preferences

2009-08-29 Thread Toni Ruottu
In the old days Ubuntu had those funny comic book bubbles used for notification. Afaik there was no way to configure them. If users didn't find the default placement awkward then, why would they now. What has gone worse? --Toni On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM, David Bensimon wrote: > Reading t