Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-14 Thread Conscious User
> Actually, and I already mentioned this to Phong, but that isn't a > mockup,, rather what my panel looks like after tweaking my Ambiance > theme. The Panel does follow the user preferences. My bad. Where I said "current visual of the panel" I actually meant "current visual of the launcher". The

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Santopietro
Actually, and I already mentioned this to Phong, but that isn't a mockup,, rather what my panel looks like after tweaking my Ambiance theme. The Panel does follow the user preferences. I don't feel like the unity pane and the window titlebar are the same thing, rather the panel provides titlebar-l

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-14 Thread Conscious User
> Additionally, with the window title and controls visible in the panel > for maximized windows, I don't feel it's confusing for a user to > understand that the panel *is* the title bar in that case. A panel > that looks like the title bar is not required for this distinction to > be apparent; th

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Santopietro
I don't feel changing the window border is necessary. The new transparency options provide a nice look and make it easily accessible. However, the current Unity panel, with any transparency, is out of touch with both the window titlebars and the Unity desktop. This image serves to keep the design

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-10 Thread Phong Cao
I think we should change both the WINDOWS BORDERS and the UNITY PANEL to "slick black" like what Ian said (see the "quoted text" section of this email for more information). http://ubuntuone.com/p/h8E/ http://ubuntuone.com/p/h8D/ Anybody wants to comment? On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Phong

Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-10 Thread Phong Cao
That's quite a good mockup Ian. That's said, if we change the color of the panel, I think we should also change the color of the window borders to that "slick black", or the panel will still look "inconsistent" when comparing to the windows' borders. But I still can not imagine what will happen i

[Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

2011-03-10 Thread Ian Santopietro
Hey All. I'd like to first introduce myself. I'm Ian Santopietro. I currently do tech support for System76, and have for nearly a year. I've been using ubuntu since 6.10, and I love to see all of the progress that it's made since then. So far, I'm delighted with Unity, and barring a few issues of