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

2010-05-05 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 07:31 +0300, Natan Yellin wrote: > I'm not crazy about autoversioning, because it becomes awfully > difficult to find what you need if you have a revision for every line > that you ever changed. I'd rather see a model where every file is > saved automatically and "Hard Saves"

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

2010-05-05 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 21:38 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > +1 to the meme of autosaving, autoversioning, and persistent undo (undo > that survives quit). > +1 to the idea of automatic replication. > > I'm pretty certain this should not be per-file, though. The idea should > be to convey the st

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

2010-05-04 Thread Natan Yellin
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 PM, 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] "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] "Unsaved state" and the Cloud

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
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 Private. > I think this is good analysis and an interesting idea. +1 t

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

2010-05-03 Thread David Hamm
nice to hear that! love to see it. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tyler Brainerd wrote: > Actually, this is something I have very much been thinking about in terms of > workspaces. I've been doing some polls and such (I'm one of the writers at > omgubuntu.co.uk) and I've been working on a few mo

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

2010-05-03 Thread Tyler Brainerd
Actually, this is something I have very much been thinking about in terms of workspaces. I've been doing some polls and such (I'm one of the writers at omgubuntu.co.uk) and I've been working on a few mockups of hotcorner activated mini-apps that would work very well for simple tasks in place of evo

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

2010-05-03 Thread Diego Moya
On 3 May 2010 14:09, David Hamm wrote: > imagine being able to open your contact list from the top right > hotcorner, choose a contact and drag the app to the message box. Check > the box that says fuse. This sends an email/im to the user and > Ubuntu's share service now kicks in and syncs the app

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

2010-05-03 Thread David Hamm
imagine being able to open your contact list from the top right hotcorner, choose a contact and drag the app to the message box. Check the box that says fuse. This sends an email/im to the user and Ubuntu's share service now kicks in and syncs the applications like gwave. This is your share icon co

[Ayatana] "Unsaved state" and the Cloud

2010-05-03 Thread Diego Moya
Mark commented on the Windicators presentation post about the convenience of an "unsaved" indicator for transient changes in a document. With the recent emphasis in Ubuntu ONE and data storage in the Cloud, I think a simple unsaved warning is not enough. The Windicators design gives us an opportun