ing it to be a default feature or part of the default
design.
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:56:32 +0100
From: christ...@r-k-r.de
To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] List windows on hover
Am 28.12.2011 21:09, schrieb nick rundy:
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On Dec 28, 2011 1:10 PM, "nick rundy" wrote:
I'm having the same usability issues with Unity. It is making it REALLY hard to
use Unity successfully to get stuff done!
In addition to your suggestions I sent an e-mail to Ayatana-List a month or two
ago suggesting so
I'm having the same usability issues with Unity. It is making it REALLY hard to
use Unity successfully to get stuff done!
In addition to your suggestions I sent an e-mail to Ayatana-List a month or two
ago suggesting something else that I think would also help improve the
situation:
*I'm
To help explain this problem I'm going to list an example case:
- I open Update Manager and maximize the window
-I click Install and a small window appears "on top of" the maximized window
and displays the installation status as it progresses.
-The updates are going to take a while to complete
I got no problem with a close button. But I really think being able to
MIDDLE-CLICK the window icon to close it (like one can do with tabs in web
browsers) would be a huge boon for usability. It's a simple thing to figure out
too because every one is used to it from web browser use.
From: fred
I'm finding it incredibly frustrating to use "Unity" because of the inability
to close windows without first having to open them first. With previous gnome
2x I could right-click the window button in the taskbar (gnome panel) and
select "close." With Windows 7 I can close a window via the popup
This is a really good point.
Gnome 3.x has a LOT of bugs. Some of them are left over from Gnome 2.x. Bugs
like this should not exist for so long:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552093
Personally, I think it's bad policy for GNOME to be devoting resources to
creating apps like the
Am 12.11.2011 15:03, schrieb nick rundy:
I don't understand these new gnome apps. Are they to replace
existing apps from third parties?
Music Player = I love Exaile. Haven't found anything better and
I've
I don't understand these new gnome apps. Are they to replace existing apps from
third parties?
Music Player = I love Exaile. Haven't found anything better and I've tried
every music player I can find.
Video Player = Totem is useless software IMHO. I have nothing but problems with
it. So I use
Regarding the Launcher getting out of the way:
I have resorted to completely turning off edge-reveal, which means I can't
access the Launcher with mouse alone.
I changed the F1 key to show the Launcher when pressed (default is Ctrl+F1 if
memory serves me). So if I want to use the Launcher I
I've had the opposite experience with Windows. I find the Windows font
painfully small and scanty.
It's always refreshing to get to use Ubuntu with ubuntu-font because I feel
like the font size and everything is sized just right. One of the things I like
about Ubuntu over Windows is how, in my
I'll second this.
You guys are all doing a magnificent job! Everything from the Theme/Ambiance
colors, Launcher, Panel, Indicators, Nautilus design. It is a pleasure to have
Unity as a Desktop option for Linux. And to have Ubuntu.
Thank You!
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:50:57 +0200
> From: da
I agree! One of Ubuntu's strongest assets was being able to resize all windows.
Upon installing 11.10, I was growing pissed off because I'm running into
windows that I can't resize. For example, I was trying to add a Keyboard
Shortcut and couldn't get the keyboard shortcut window to resize. It
Two critical bugs keep the ayatana-scrollbars from being usable in my opinion;
I filed bug reports in hope that 12.04 will get the fix:
Thumb should not appear until it is clickable/grabbable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/870714
Thumb should appear INSIDE unmaximized-windows
https://bu
stapos...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:15:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars
To: nru...@hotmail.com
CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
2011/10/6 nick rundy
Have you tried using the lower-right corner to resize your window?
Using the lower-right "grabbe
Have you tried using the lower-right corner to resize your window?
Using the lower-right "grabber" you can resize the whole window, resize just
horizontally, or just vertically. The "grabber" that was introduced in 11.04
was a much appreciated improvement for resizing windows in Ubuntu.
The "angle of escape" in the drop-down menus is a real problem, as described in
the seven-minutes article. I hope Ubuntu fixes this soon as possible.
> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 20:16:53 +0100
> From: pedro.sa...@gmail.com
> To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: [Ayatana] "Seven Minutes in
I love the DASH's window controls: http://i.imgur.com/oOv1N.jpg
I'd love to see the Dash's close, minimize & maximize buttons become the
default on all windows (i.e., dash windows as well as non-dash windows).
___
Menu shows icon AND user-name (adds
clutter to 11.10)
Den 17. sep. 2011 22:35, skrev nick rundy:
In the top-panel in the upper-right corner of Oneiric Ocelot
where the Indicators list, every indicator has one icon/entry
representin
In the top-panel in the upper-right corner of Oneiric Ocelot where the
Indicators list,
every indicator has one icon/entry representing it except for the
User/Me Indicator. It has two. It displays a human-shaped head/shoulders
(bust) AND the written name of the user. It mistakenly gives the
I prefer the black Dash instead of Oneiric's new desktop wallpaper chameleon
coloring.
Any chance there will be a setting that let's users have a black Dash? or is
the chameleon color unchangeable?___
Mailing list: h
The new white (Monochrome) icons showing up in Thunderbird & Ubuntu Software
Center look really swell.
I'm hoping we see Monochrome icons land for Nautilus, Gwibber, etc eventually.
Maybe 12.04?
___
Mailing li
So is right-click no more for Indicators? I seem to remember this big effort to
get rid of right-click functionality for Indicators. But now a middle-click
functionality is being added? This strikes me as rather bizarre. Is there a
wiki that explains the design ideas behind this?
From: t...@ub
ght-arrow, enter. I haven't figured out how
to achieve somtheing similar in gnome-shell.
> From: jbi...@ubuntu.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:55:35 -0400
> CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] the Device & User Menu concept should be Scraped
>
> On 2 A
k and go from there, you are probably right in that it
> makes sense to have the devices there, though just from a personal
> perspective I wish to have the icons removed, I'll see if I can get it added
> to the power users program or something like that as a sort of a compromise.
>
I can do something like what happened with re-sizing the
> launcher (https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/713087)
>
> - ikt
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "nick rundy"
> To: da...@kvr.com.au
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 August, 2011 4:03:19 AM
> Subject: RE: [Aya
> We might drop the launcher visibility of mounted drives, based on user >
> testing.
NO!
I PREY this doesn't happen. I LOVE having mounted devices show up in the
Launcher. I also love having an icon show on the Desktop. The desktop icon
always reminds me I have something mounted when I close
less agressive to the eyes, this glow just does the
oppositive. Ambiance's blacks is a plained-like color, it's easier to the eyes
and differ the toolbars from the rest of the wndow.
2011/7/25 nick rundy
Please see the following picture of the Apple Ipad for an example of
&q
Please see the following picture of the Apple Ipad for an example of
"lightened" black toolbars that are not the same darkness as the OS's top panel
and represent a good design: http://i.imgur.com/cfWSy.jpg
Note that although the toolbar is technically "black" it is a "faded/lightened"
black.
at times, just not when you took the screenshot. The System Settings
bar contains a search box (Which new users will find useful, not wasteful) and
the "All Settings" button when a specific item is opened (also useful to new
users, so they know how to get back). And, th
<<>>
Dark Toolbars do draw a distinction, but it is too extreme and not appropriate
for the context, especially considering that the user has to interact with the
toolbar to manager the content. It should not be cast in shadow when it is
something the user needs to interact with regularly. Thi
The newly implemented Dark Toolbars to Oneiric have left me wondering if the
Developers have forgotten one of the driving principles for Unity--to reclaim
vertical space?
Look at the following comparison between Natty as it is today and Oneiric with
Dark Toolbars. In Oneiric, not only has writi
Dark Toolbars are a BAD idea. The Top-Panel should remain a significantly
darker color than application toolbars.
Gnome-shell has the right idea where they made the top-panel black,
communicating that the top-panel is NOT part of a running application. Google
has started putting a black top-pa
Pre Unity, it was simple to shut down ubuntu with keyboard presses: Super + S,
up-arrow, Enter. I'd like to see Shut Down return to the bottom-most entry of
the Sessions-Menu again. this way it keeps the key presses to a minimum. When
Shut Down isn't the last menu item on the list I'm left hav
g keyboard focus onto
> Status Menu Indicators (ALT + 1-0)
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:18 AM, nick rundy wrote:
> > I have to press F10 and then left-arrow-key SIX times to reach the Network
> > Menu.
>
> If I pre
when I have several windows open, I find the overview is useless. The
thumbnails are too small for me to be able to tell what window it is,
especially when I'm dealing with multiple windows from Writer or Nautilus for
example. Plus, there being no Icon associated with the window, sometimes I
c
ubject: Re: [Ayatana] Shortcuts needed for putting keyboard focus onto Status
Menu Indicators (ALT + 1-0)
On 03/05/11 20:49, nick rundy wrote:
> I'm finding it incredibly burdensome to have to "scrub" across menus to get
> to the Status Menu Indicators in Unity (i.e., Netwo
Hey guys :)
I'm finding it incredibly burdensome to have to "scrub" across menus to get to
the Status Menu Indicators in Unity (i.e., Network menu, Session Menu, Clock,
etc). It would sure make my use of ubuntu easier if ALT + 1-0 would put
keyboard focus onto a corresponding Status Menu Indic
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> CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
>
> On 15 April 2011 16:08, nick rundy wrote:
> >> This is where the whole thing falls apart quite epically. Now visually
> >> the panel is the titlebar of the maximized window, but the contents of
> >> it are the focuse
I like the integrated titlebar. I've had zero issues/problems with it. It is a
fantastic idea and design that improves the usability of the desktop.
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:42:07 +0200
From: mitja.pa...@inueni.com
To: m...@canonical.com
CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Aw
I noticed there is a Workspaces launcher icon. But I generally don't use
Workspaces. I do use Spread Mode (super + W) for the workspace I'm in all the
time. Is there a way or are there plans to have a Launcher icon for Spread
Mode? This way i have the option of super + W or clicking the icon? S
This is my concern as well. Many people including myself use the appearance of
the scroll bar to gain info on page length and size of page content. This helps
me gauge size for print jobs as well as how much content is available for
reading.
> From: xclae...@gmail.com
> To: mitja.pa...@inueni.
If this indeed changes, I will not be using unity as my desktop.
With previous desktop environments, my cursor constanly touches the left side
of the screen unintentionally and the appearance of hidden bars (whether
Windows taskbar or unity launcher) are always interrupting my work when i don'
There are a lot of other applications that benefit from the additional space
afforded by merging the titlebar and menubar into the panel besides the
web-browser. Nautilus, media players, music players, word processors, e-mail
clients, text editors, burning software, etc. Not all applications pl
I always thought of the minimize button icon as an underscore, minus, or dash.
That is, representing the absence/omission of the window. Not that it signals
the window is being moved to the bottom panel.
From: merkin...@hotmail.com
To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:59:55
How do you guys feel about the idea of omitting the Minimize window-button?
Especially for maximized windows, the panel has a lot going on and I'm thinking
maybe it would be better to display just the Close and Maximize buttons. After
all, the user can simply click the Launcher Icon to "minimiz
Has this been considered? Seems it would be helpful for keyboard oriented folks
to be able to hide/unhide the launcher via a keyboard shortcut. I can see this
being used a lot in combination with the maximize-window command ctrl + alt +
zero (especially on small displayed netbooks).
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