Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-29 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Gnome Shell currently uses the grave as shorthand for "whichever key appears above Tab on your keyboard layout". So presumably this would be localised for each keyboard layout. On 29 Oct 2010 12:39, "Barry Warsaw" wrote: On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Philipp Wendler wrote: >Using ` is a horribl

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Philipp Wendler wrote: >Using ` is a horrible idea in my opionion, because this character is at >different locations on the keyboard in different layouts. For example on a >German keyboard, it is directly left of backspace, and needs Shift pressed to >access it. Furth

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-29 Thread Philipp Wendler
Hi, Am 28.10.2010 18:54, schrieb Barry Warsaw: Third, it would be helpful if application focus switching via Alt-Tab were application-centric not window-centric. What I mean by that is that if I have two Emacs windows open, or two mail windows open, Alt-Tab should cycle among applications and

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Silva
Warsaw To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 9:22:23 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >The problem with that is that some apps have their name as the first menu >option, sou you

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >Wait, I only now realized what your're talking about, and I disagree :) > >I disagree because what if you want to alt-tab between the two emacs windows? >That shortcut is unknown to me, and probably to every user coming from >windows or mac. Dani

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >The problem with that is that some apps have their name as the first menu >option, sou you'd see, for example, 'amarok amarok other_menu_items' That would be a problem with some applications, but it should be "easily" solved with a style guide an

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Silva
Silva To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 8:36:38 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity I agree with you 100 %, but for some reason Alt-Tab does nothing in my version

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Silva
I agree with you 100 %, but for some reason Alt-Tab does nothing in my version of unity. -- cut - Original message Thi

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Silva
riginal Message From: Barry Warsaw To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 5:54:59 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity On Oct 27, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >when working with multiple, unmaximized windows,

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 27, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >when working with multiple, unmaximized windows, something I always feel when >using Mac OS X (specially when I want to open a menu item of a non-focused >window: in these cases I have to click the titlebar of the app, *then* access >the global me

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Silva
? - Original Message From: David Stevenson To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 10:34:09 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity On 27/10/10 21:53, Daniel Silva wrote: ... I do not think this is a big problem. It is o

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-27 Thread David Stevenson
On 27/10/10 21:53, Daniel Silva wrote: > I think Vincent Moulin hit the nail in the head with his idea of windows not > maximized having their menus inside of them instead of the top. ... +1 > > There is only one problem, windows that don't get maximized, yet are big > enough > to fill the