Re: [Ayatana] Need ability to close windows from within "Spread Mode" (super+W)

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 20:59, Ian Santopietrowrote: Those are all great, but how do they relate to touch interfaces? Are touch interfaces inherently invalid in the eyes of the UNIX philosophy? This is ironic, since I believe well over 90% of touch-based OSs in use are UNIX-based. A

Re: [Ayatana] What should Unity look like on Smartphones and Tablets?

On 07.11.2011 22:37, Ian Santopietro wrote: At UDS-P, Mark announced his plans to have Ubuntu on Tablets, phones, and TVs by 14.04 LTS. You can start too early! http://i.imgur.com/56vDn.jpg I'd like feedback from the Ayatana community on the design. wow, beautiful work here! The messaging men

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

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 23:38 -0300, Conscious User wrote: > I should mention, though, that in my opinion the fact that Unity merges > the titlebar with the panel makes the dragging slightly more intuitive: > you drag the titlebar to the thing it's going to be merged to. Perhaps > *too* slightly to

Re: [Ayatana] The Wall instead of "Desktop"

On 01/04/2011 01:12 PM, Luke Benstead wrote: another thing that disturbed me was that i now had no generic place to put stuff which i didn't want to have in my face all the time.. ^^ this I only ever use the desktop for stuff I need temporarily or that is yet to be organized. I

Re: [Ayatana] The Wall instead of "Desktop"

On 01/04/2011 12:19 PM, Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga wrote: So let have a look on the "Desktop" paradigm. ;) We used to understand the "Desktop" as the one on real life. the metaphor has been around from the beginning on, when PCs had the size of refrigerators, and only clerks and accountants

Re: [Ayatana] Me & Messaging Indicator Menu

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:23 +0100, zekopeko wrote: > Since Unity has access to OpenGL it would be nice to have a more shiny > effect showing when a new message comes. Some sort of moving particle > effect. yeah, particle engine stuff would be sexy indeed, but spec says we want no more than 1 fram

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100, zekopeko wrote: > > > > I suggest you look at Divvy[1]. Looks like a really nice way of > marrying a tilling manager to a non-tilling manager. thanks! divvy is cool, we had that before in a months old Ayatana thread iirc, and i think i liked it already for its

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 02:21 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > >> Apologies to hijack this thread - I have already got a sample > >> implementation of implementing a resize grip area set by the theme > >> which is larger than the borders and it vastly resolves the precision > >> problem. It requires a

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:31 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:43 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Hi Remco, > > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 13:50, Remco wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin wrote: > >> > I agree. The only reason I ever boot i

Re: [Ayatana] Me & Messaging Indicator Menu

Hi Jan, On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 03:42 +0100, Jan Hopmans wrote: > On 23/12/2010 18:59, Phong Cao Viet wrote: > > I know this is kinda weird... but what is gonna happen if my list is > > longer, like if I have lots of social network account or lots of > > friends online... will the messaging menu k

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 692921] Re: Allow for the panel to be disabled (wishlist)

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 17:10 +0100, zekopeko wrote: > I think that a decent solution for 11.04 would be to create a > temporary workspace for the fullscreen app so that it shows in the > Expo (Workspace switcher) mode but once the app is un-fullscreen-ed it > would return to the workspace from wh

Re: [Ayatana] media vs apps

On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:56 +, Chris Wilson wrote: > Personally, if I were to click on a button labeled 'Photos and > Videos', I would expect to find those files there rather than editors, > etc. > > > That said, if I were to click on a button labeled 'Music', I would > expect to find my musi

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

On 03/11/10 01:58, Seif Lotfy wrote: It is easy to access evolution and Thunderbird activities. Its on the top of our list ATM. It is not in zeitgeist domain to merge contacts etc. We can just tell you how you use the contacts. So all I can offer is to map the contacts from zeitgeist to U1 or l

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

On 03/11/10 01:29, Seif Lotfy wrote: Hey, For the U1 contacts I can work it out easily. We already have a telepathy logger. I will patch it up for ubuntu to actually map the contacts from telepathy with U1 and log them into Zeitgeist. This will allow me to easily populate the view with "Recent

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

On 03/11/10 01:16, Stuart Langridge wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 20:03 -0400, Alex Launi wrote: It seems like a U1 contacts backend to libfolks would be the most robust approach. This is definitely something we'd like to do. I've already tipped off kenvandine that I'd like to talk ab

Re: [Ayatana] Why are the MeMenu and the messaging applet two separate things?

On 02/11/10 22:25, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Prieto wrote on 02/11/10 07:39: I originally sent this as a question for Askubuntu, but got no reply: http://askubuntu.com/questions/10688/why-are-the-memenu-and-the-messaging-applet-two-separ

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

On 02/11/10 17:21, Anzan Hoshin Roshi wrote: On 2 November 2010 12:19, Luke Benstead > wrote: Here's what I'd love from a "People" place: 1. The ability to import contacts from Gmail 2. The ability to easily merge/edit contacts these are the points r

Re: [Ayatana] Unity - Web and People

On 02/11/10 16:05, Seif Lotfy wrote: I am trying to figure how would be the best way to do it. If the feedback is ok on the ayatana side i think i could have the "backend" done within 2 - 3 weeks Cheers Seif that would be awesome! I can see (from a bird's perspective) that we currently have

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu on the Desktop

On 01/11/10 20:35, Dean Loros wrote: As far as I am concerned---any upper bar wastes space.The first thing I do on a new install is remove the upper panel/bar & use AWN for my lower panel--yes I know that it "looks" like OSX that way, but it fits my workflow better (maybe because I'm a old-

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 14:57, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 09/09/10 13:20, Vishnoo wrote: > > I dont think there is a bug regarding that color change either.. Someone > > should first file the bug. :) > > Done at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/634003 > Thanks, SABDFL ;)

Re: [Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

Thanks for your thoughts, this is a low hanging fruit in my personal opinion, that's how it caught my attention. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 15:25, Sohail Mirza wrote: > Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show > both side-by-side. Replacing the text would likely lead

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 04:08, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 31/07/10 21:57, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 21:59, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> On 30/07/10 20:57, Vishnoo wrote: >> > Right , just wanted to mention that we dont need to use punct

[Ayatana] Reliability: Realtime Experience for Maverick

Dear all, after hesitating for quite some time now, i installed Maverick on my production machines, and it is running like a charm! Thanks to the everybody @ Canonical for all the great work, thanks to the entire community for making this possible in the first place ;) Reliability: As in the phys

Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 03:53, Apoorva Sharma wrote: > > To me, insensitive items are very dangerous. The only use case should be > for expressing functionality that has been disabled by a user action, that > is, insensitive items should appear to the user without the user making them > so. Otherw

Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 13:17, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Frederik Nnaji wrote on 08/09/10 02:12: > > > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:41, Matthew Paul Thomas >... > >> Frederik Nnaji wrote on 05/09/10 12:22: > >... > >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:41, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Frederik Nnaji wrote on 05/09/10 12:22: > >... > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:17, Apoorva Sharma >... > >> I think the fact that the memenu even shows the state changing > >> buttons even when chat i

Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 13:22, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Hi appi, > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:17, Apoorva Sharma wrote: > >> I think the fact that the memenu even shows the state changing buttons >> even when chat is off is ridiculous. How is the user supposed to kn

Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

Hi appi, On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:17, Apoorva Sharma wrote: > I think the fact that the memenu even shows the state changing buttons even > when chat is off is ridiculous. How is the user supposed to know that to > turn those buttons useable, he has to go to a different menu? > > There was a re

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

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 09:25, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Something I wanted us to try was the idea of "convergence days", where we'd > publish a data file quietly which would say "on such and such a date, try to > be as close to this as possible", specifying the position and parameters of > the

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Hello MPT ;) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 21:02, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >>>>> 2010/8/2 Frederik Nnaji : > >>>>>> > >>>>>> *Does* Ubuntu warn the user beforehand that the updates about to > >>>>>> be ma

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 04:31, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >I understand your position and i agree with most of it, too. > >While we surely share the same opinion on much of what has been discussed > >here, i am developing a mental model of how there can be a learnable, > >consistent and semantically

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 22:30, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Not all users have the same level of experience. That's unavoidable. > that's good, diversity is an asset, not a staller. > In general (not always, but in general) more experienced users will be more > like to use more command line tool

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

Wow, nice job ;) On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 19:51, Martin Owens wrote: > Hey Joseph, Mark and Otto, > > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:52 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD, > > what > > works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather

[Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

Hi there, i've been thinking about this one for quite a while now.. We can't control our state of Presence (Me Menu) when empathy's presence is set to "offline". how is this situation supposed to evolve? My own idea would be, to replace "invisible" with "offline", since i appear as offline when

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Hello Scott, On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 05:01, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > "Frederik Nnaji" wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 19:58, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 07:17:55 pm Frederik Nnaji wrote: > &

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 19:58, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 07:17:55 pm Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 19:16, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > > > If you're using apt-get, then you aren't in the target audience Ayatana &g

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 23:50, Matt Wheeler wrote: > On 2 September 2010 18:30, Frederik Nnaji > wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > > > the current situation is, that both warning and NOT warning the user are > > being practised. > > This sends the user a mixed messag

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Hi Matt, On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 19:02, Matt Wheeler wrote: > > I think a warning that "this update will require a restart" will put > some people off running the upgrade, especially if they are in the > middle of working on something, and is likely to lead to updates not > being applied for long

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Here's how i would personally prefer the text to be displayed: u...@machine:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common libwww-perl linux-he

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 21:25, Matt Wheeler wrote: > On 2 August 2010 20:35, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > When clicking "Install Updates" in update-manager, USER should be warned > > explicitly that doing so will require a restart. USER should know this > well, > &

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator sound's button behavior

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 16:33, 柳东原 wrote: > BTW, I really like this design: > http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/c7gRnJLOpQqcjXJlqbJuww?feat=directlink > nice! ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:28, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > > I don't understand why Firefox (or Internet Explorer) has an offline > > mode at all. > > It is very much helpful for DSL users as well. Sometimes, I want to > avoid my browser add-ons from unnecessarily accessing web resources > while someth

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 23:45, David Hamm wrote: > If the os completely powered the device down, i'm not sure if it would be > able able to remount it. Example, usb powered hdd. > Once it is powered down properly, i can finally remove the device safely and without any fear of disrupting any mech

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

Hi again, MPT ;) On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 19:32, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > But what proportion of people who use USB keys understand that it's > possible to "power them on and off", do you think? > rather usb hdd, is what i was thinking of.. I remember discussion on how there's no way to power

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 19:32, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Frederik Nnaji wrote on 26/08/10 16:55: > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:56, Matthew Paul Thomas >... > >> As soon as UI Freeze is past, how

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:56, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > As soon as UI Freeze is past, how to eject/remove devices is something > I'll be investigating for Natty. > > It would be very helpful if people on this list could brainstorm > different ways to present it. > combine it with the also dev

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 00:40, Remco wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 23:03, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > On 03/08/10 20:25, Matt Wheeler wrote: > >> In reality (as ScottK has already mentioned) only Firefox *needs* a > >> restart after an update, everything else will just continue to run the >

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 22:12, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 22/08/10 19:47, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > > everything exactly, that restart experience is really bad (the warning, >> the breakage if you don't do it, it's all poor, and if every app did >> tha

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 23:55, David Hamm wrote: > If you pkill chrome it will update and restore upon open no need to be > nice. can it restore cookies, https sessions and all? I think the problem here is that the app doesn't know, which one of its limbs needs to be restarted, so it restarts

Re: [Ayatana] Space in the sound menu

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 17:08, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > Mute and pause all is based on the need to make the computer shut-up > quickly. No reason to play on if muted. The user will likely prefer to > continue to listen from the loca

Re: [Ayatana] "Locate Pointer" breaks zoom in Firefox

Hi MPT :D On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:40, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Frederik Nnaji wrote on 22/08/10 19:37: > >... > > I attached a screenshot of the Mouse Preferences dialog.. > > Honestly.. it is alre

Re: [Ayatana] Places > People

Hi Jean ;) On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:50, Jean Levasseur wrote: > Hello Frederik, > > 2010/8/21, Frederik Nnaji : > > The "dash" as you spell it, is what exactly again? > > Does "dash" mean another "Place" in Nautilus, where my contacts will be

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Hi Mark ;) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 23:03, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 03/08/10 20:25, Matt Wheeler wrote: > > In reality (as ScottK has already mentioned) only Firefox *needs* a > > restart after an update, everything else will just continue to run the > > slightly out of date version until yo

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

Hi, On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 05:51 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/446 > > Have a look 2 mockups, thoughts and explanation at: > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/ayatana-sound-menu/ > errm i

Re: [Ayatana] Sound menu slider interaction

Hi Thorwil, On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:42, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Using the whole slider area as single drag handle makes for a > faster/easier to hit target and avoids surprises with unintentional > stepping. Note that the value-mark should not look like a handle, then, > as it would cause use

Re: [Ayatana] Places > People

that said: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 20:06, David Hamm wrote: > Just playing, you guys really needs some killer touch book to go with this. > Hardware hardware hardware. The interface looks good, great with touch, but > please launch it with some good hardware. That will make all the difference. >

Re: [Ayatana] Browser Offline Message

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 14:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > (I had a similar experience with a neighbor running Windows last year. > Their ISP, trying to troubleshoot the problem, had resorted to sending > them a whole new router -- but it turned out the neighbor had just > accidentally clicked

Re: [Ayatana] Activity Streams

thanks, martin! On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 17:03, Martin Owens wrote: > Has anyone heard of the Activity Streams? > > http://activitystrea.ms/ > > Martin, > this name fits excellently to the service type the MeMenu text field sends to.. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hi topdownjimmy, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:04, topdownjimmy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Conscious User > wrote: > > > > > 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 >

Re: [Ayatana] Places > People

Hi Thorwil, On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:05, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 02:25 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > > 2. In which of the above categories would you prefer to see > > "Contacts".. Personal or rather Network? or perhaps a new "People&

Re: [Ayatana] Do indicator applications need minimize?

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 22:17, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Perhaps a better integration of the escape key would help greatly! > e.g.: * return to previous view * dismiss this dialog * dismiss this menu * close this modal window * remove this focused object from my view * hide the focused

Re: [Ayatana] Do indicator applications need minimize?

Hi Luke, On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 16:54, Luke Benstead wrote: > In 10.10 we'll have two "group" indicators; the messaging and sound menus. > Both of these menus allow applications to run inside them, by this I mean > when the window is closed they continue to run in the background available > from

[Ayatana] Fwd: unified system

is anybody familiar with the spec i mention below!? i asked on the xdg list but nobody responded yet.. perhaps someone here is using some low hanging fruit out of this spec's implementation already in some project? i'd love to know more.. -- Forwarded message ------ From

Re: [Ayatana] Light Sound Theme

so you are thinking "music" rather than R2D2 style info chatter? On 2010-08-04, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 03/08/10 22:54, S. Christian Collins wrote: >> Thanks for the pointers, Mark! They will give me a much clearer idea >> of what you all are looking for in a sound theme. > > Well I'm jus

Re: [Ayatana] Sound indicator position indicator and scope

Hi guide On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 14:32, guido iodice wrote: > Hi, > > IMHO title on the cover is ugly. > i thought this was about transport controls and temporal position controls for our sound menu? well, for that question, i think redesigning the temporal position controls for the sound menu

Re: [Ayatana] Compiz Search Filter for default

Hi Sam, On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 17:24, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > The whole point of CCSM is to display all available internal > variables. I don't see how trying to "smart filter" them out fits in > with the purpose of CCSM. > > The developers have already picked a set of options which control the >

Re: [Ayatana] Compiz Search Filter for default

hat simple ways of navigating it are yet to be produced.. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 16:05, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Hello dear CompizConfig Developers in this list, if there are any.. are > there any? > > A great thank you for how you did the search filter in CompizConfig > Settings Man

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 20:23, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >so then red is the wrong color > > Depends on what fix isn't in place. Leaving a remote root exploit in place > seems pretty red to me. > > Scott K > good, so let me list the update cases: * important security update * kernel update * fire

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 19:21, Scott Kitterman wrote: > "Frederik Nnaji" wrote: > > >Hello Florian, > > > >On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 17:37, Florian Bruhin wrote: > > > >> 2010/8/2 Frederik Nnaji : > >> > *Does* Ubuntu warn the us

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Hello Florian, On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 17:37, Florian Bruhin wrote: > 2010/8/2 Frederik Nnaji : > > *Does* Ubuntu warn the user beforehand that the updates about to be made > > will eventually require a restart? I can't recall.. > > As fair as I know, it does not. Ho

Re: [Ayatana] Light Sound Theme

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 20:44, Jacopo Moronato wrote: > If you are interested: > http://design.canonical.com/2010/08/ubuntu-needs-a-new-sound-theme/ > > > -- > Jacopo Moronato > thanks! ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayat

[Ayatana] Semantic Metaphors

Metaphors are vehicles that convey the meaning of an object or phenomenon by evoking associative thinking. In simpler words: Metaphors help you understand stuff better. Here some different types of metaphors: * visual metaphors * rethorical figures * auditive metaphors (e.g. incoming message sound

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

When clicking "Install Updates" in update-manager, USER should be warned explicitly that doing so will require a restart. USER should know this well, before updating. *Does* Ubuntu warn the user beforehand that the updates about to be made will eventually require a restart? I can't recall.. On Mo

Re: [Ayatana] Unity Screenshot

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 15:37, David Siegel wrote: > Of course that discussion is not off topic! Please, share your thoughts. > > David > We can all see that the interaction design here is being done quite carefully, the goal seems a not too overloaded interface, clean, structured, consistent, le

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 21:59, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 30/07/10 20:57, Vishnoo wrote: > > Right , just wanted to mention that we dont need to use punctuations > > or brackets in menus: > > "Restart To Complete Update..." > > [ or s/complete/finish or any synonym ] > > Yes, that would fit n

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

Hi Vish, Hi Conscious ;) On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 21:57, Vishnoo wrote: > > On a related note, we first need to fix: > > > Once that is fixed , the session-menu wording and the icon changing only > after the update would all fit well. >

[Ayatana] Restart Required

hello there ;) is anybody working on the FUSA currently? Allow me to raise the topic for brief elaboration.. "Restart Required" seems incorrect to me: after executing a partial upgrade, Ubuntu shows two red elements in the indicator area of my top panel * dysfunctional conman * FUSA in alert cond

Re: [Ayatana] [Announce] Unity 0.2.18 Released

are we going to call it global query one day, or could anybody please somehow pop up with a friendly name for this wonderlamp of desktop launch and control inteface...? On 2010-07-16, Neil Jagdish Patel wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm going to try and make release announcements every week after the > Un

Re: [Ayatana] Blue for information

Hi Luke ;) On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:42, Luke Benstead wrote: > Hi all, > > A while back we were discussing using blue to represent "information" in > the indicator applets. Mark said it was worth looking in to: > https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg01205.html > > I'm bringing this up again,

Re: [Ayatana] Me menu broadcast message feedback

hello Mark, you are suggesting the introduction of a "generic throbber" over an indicator menu.. did i understand that correctly? or spinny, as you stated. With "spinny" ¹ , are you referring to the redesign of the mouse cursor for better indication of state which happened quite a few years ago?

Re: [Ayatana] Undersized indicator icons

im my opinion, indicators should be a compact block of icons on the top right, leaving the middle part of the top edge free for content or events related to date-time. On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 00:45, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Indicator icons are much smaller than their containing panel would > cur

Re: [Ayatana] Rhythmbox sync

Are you asking for a visual metaphor for "Synchronize Devices" ? 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 > next version of rhythm

Re: [Ayatana] Windicator Unnecessary

Hi cmaglothin, On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 23:28, cmaglothin wrote: > I don't think he is saying bugs, but more irksome problems. Maybe more > along the lines of papercuts. just reporting something that could make the > application better, not something that completely breaks the app. though > both c

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hi Conscious ;) On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 14:01, Conscious User wrote: Every time I tried a mockup with two text fields in the same > menu it ended up so... I don't know... heavy, that it just > felt wrong and I ended up giving up sending to the list > entirely. > make one with an icon beside the

Re: [Ayatana] Windicator Unnecessary

Hi Martin ;) On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 01:01, Martin Owens wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:54 -0500, Apoorva Sharma wrote: > > I don't propose that we should completely ditch windicators, but I > > guess you could say that I propose that windows show statuses related > > to them in the titlebar,

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

Hi there ;) On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 15:14, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Do-not-disturb did come up in our latest review of thinking for 11.04 > design work, so please ask MPT for a pointer to the (placeholder) spec > where it should emerge. I would guess it would be a me-menu-2.0 type > spec name.

Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 19:07, Dani Planas Armangue wrote: > On 04/07/10 11:54, Sense Hofstede wrote: > > The mock-ups for Firefox 4 seem also to be using CSD. That's the only > > way I can think of to get that menu up there in the title bar. > >

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

yeah, i would like to see that, too: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 19:03, Liam Wilson wrote: > [...]I feel that having a auto-hide option, at least, that re-appears when > the mouse cursor is placed on the left hand edge of the screen (like MeeGo), > would solve this. > ..and Contact list should be do

Re: [Ayatana] Should we change how/when Release Notes are displayed?

Hi Dylan ;) On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 20:08, Dylan McCall wrote: > Blender has a stellar example of release notes done right. Here's a > recent example: > http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/ > > They carefully explain the new features in an orderly way, provide > some samp

[Ayatana] reviewing the Screenshot Tool [was: Idea: windicator add-ons, an extensible window border]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 15:59, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 11/06/10 10:08, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > The ideal screenshot tool would instantly take a screenshot of the whole > > screen, *and* one of the current window, just in case you wanted either > > of those, and *then* show its own in

Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about unclutter

hi cmaglothin, On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 06:31, cmaglothin wrote: > I know its default because I'm using maverick and it installed by itself. > It was in an update a few days ago. ah thanks, now i understand where this discussion originates in the first place. Unfortunately i can't relate, cause

Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about unclutter

hi there ;) On 2010-07-02, Lance wrote: > I would add that my first annoyance with this behavior is that I often use > the mouse pointer to "point out" something in a screenshot. Now I must stay > physically active to do so rather than just setting the screenshot delay > time properly, positionin

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:26, David Hamm wrote: > > anyway. I took your idea and made it smaller. > https://cacoo.com/diagrams/LglZe1fa5Nf0UVEA > a lot of stuff that i like in there. And a lot of linux love also :D ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

hi appi On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 23:56, Apoorva Sharma wrote: > Hi > > I really like this idea. I've used it to make a mockup of my own. I've made > 3 mockups: > >- The view a user sees on an unconfigured install. > > i like! > >- A user with both a broadcast account and a chat account

Re: [Ayatana] Unity Screenshot

Hi Florian, On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 22:04, Florian Bruhin wrote: > You might want to install the packages unity-place-applications and > unity-place-files to enjoy the full beauty of that part of Unity (it's > a bit useless without these :P) > > Florian > thanks, that helped, very kind of you ;

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Fb asks (in German): Was machst du gerade? In english: what are you doing just now? To receive a more valuable response from the user, one should probably suggest, instead of asking.. Perhaps like: "what you are doing just now:" Gnite.. -- Gesendet von meinem Palm Pre Conscious User

Re: [Ayatana] Broadcasting from Me Menu: thoughts after some time using it

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:33, David Hamm wrote: > had to throw this out there before it slipped my mind, but one of the > disadvantages to the design I proposed was that it takes a few to many > clicks to tweet. Which is of course quite a problem considering the target > audience and the typical

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:19, Conscious User wrote: > See the attached mockup. > great mockup, Conscious!! > > One of the reactions to the mockup will be "we don't > have the menu item for customizing About Me anymore". > Well, quite frankly, it is a "Preferences"-like > item. Isn't those thi

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:36, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > > > One thing that is universal, though, is how they are > > displayed: picture on the left, message to the right > > with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of > > the famil

Re: [Ayatana] Start Menu Concept

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:07, David Hamm wrote: > People are great at pattern recognition, hence icons > text... ios, hunting > & gathering etc. > wow, David! ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net U

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