Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-10-14 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi MPT, On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:40, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > One solution could be merging the two menus, but that could create too > > large a menu. A better solution could be to have the textbox and > > buttons appear when the user sets

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-10-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fain182 wrote on 12/10/10 09:53: > >> They don't have the same effect. The Rhythmbox item focuses Rhythmbox. >> The track data item copies the track data to the clipboard. > > This is undiscoverable.. The effect of the Rhythmbox item should be obvious

Re: [Ayatana] [ubuntu-art] Meerkat volume control design

2010-10-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 13/10/10 18:08: >... > Right now a regular menu item is used as a title in one place > (Rhythmbox), and an action in another (Mute). The font and spacing is > identical in both cases. >... It's an action in both cases. - -- Mat

Re: [Ayatana] [ubuntu-art] Meerkat volume control design

2010-10-14 Thread Conscious User
Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 à 10:50 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dylan McCall wrote on 13/10/10 18:08: > >... > > Right now a regular menu item is used as a title in one place > > (Rhythmbox), and an action in another (Mute). The font and

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-10-14 Thread Conscious User
> I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable. > I'd love to see suggestions for that. This is more or less one of the points I was trying to make with my original message. Technically, it does not *need* to have an effect, there's nothing wrong with having purely info

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-14 Thread Remco
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:16, cmaglothin wrote: > I agree. The only reason I ever boot into Windows is that I have to annotate > movies for a class, and Snap makes it very easy to do with just two clicks. > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM, David Hamm wrote: >> >> in fact i'd say it almost a upg

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-10-14 Thread zekopeko
Let me make a suggestion on how to fix this usability problem. Simply use font colors. There was already talk in Unity discussions of using blue (or green?) for informational elements so I think that would fit nicely. Long term it would probably best to allow theme developers to define their own co

[Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources

2010-10-14 Thread zekopeko
One thing I noticed is that the various design specification (Software Center, Networking, DateTime, Notify-OSD etc.) are very scattered on the Ubuntu Wiki. I would like for there to be a (single) page of currently active specifications so we can avoid things like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubun