Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post (correction)

2011-04-23 Thread Biturica
"This would also make room for migrating "system tray" sort of stuff to the *dock* instead, and getting rid of the top panel entirely, and putting window controls, window titles, and menu bars back into the application windows where they are far more intuitive and usable at any state of window

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-23 Thread Biturica
For me it would be more intuitive, less cluttered, et al, if the dock had a "system" lens, a "favorite applications" lens, and a "current open windows" lens (adjacent to, or combined with, the workspaces lens) ...and then dispensed with the paradigm of instead placing individual launchers for /

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Evan Huus
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On 22 April 2011 20:04, Evan Huus wrote: >> To be honest, I don't find the System Settings window useful. It lists >> almost fifty different subcategories in only a couple of major groups, >> and while the search tool is handy, it's not smart

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 22 April 2011 20:04, Evan Huus wrote: > To be honest, I don't find the System Settings window useful. It lists > almost fifty different subcategories in only a couple of major groups, > and while the search tool is handy, it's not smart: searching for > "wallpaper" or "background" lists no resu

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Ian Santopietro
Should have been Dev, sorry. It's proven that system settings are what people find unintutive. My solution keeps your preferred method without adding clutter, and solves the issue that people were having. Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. On Apr 22, 2011 6:05 PM, "Evan Huus"

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Evan Huus
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Ian Santopietro wrote: > Welcome to the list! > > On Apr 22, 2011 4:18 PM, "Evan Huus" wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm new to this list so please let me know if I'm out of turn >> somehow, but I have a few ideas for future incarnations of Unity. >> >> I was reading the Canon

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Ian Santopietro
Welcome to the list! On Apr 22, 2011 4:18 PM, "Evan Huus" wrote: > > Hi, I'm new to this list so please let me know if I'm out of turn > somehow, but I have a few ideas for future incarnations of Unity. > > I was reading the Canonical Design blog post at [1], and two > particular problems caught

[Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Evan Huus
Hi, I'm new to this list so please let me know if I'm out of turn somehow, but I have a few ideas for future incarnations of Unity. I was reading the Canonical Design blog post at [1], and two particular problems caught my eye: - First, many users seemed to have difficulty finding settings. Curr