[Ayatana] Unity Dash Mockup

2011-03-14 Thread Muhammad Nabil
View the mockups here: http://i.imgur.com/MoBCJ.png http://i.imgur.com/HBW9k.png http://i.imgur.com/xo8TT.png Just my 25 cents! -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Muhammad Nabil (https://launchpad.net/~ghogaru) using the "Contact this team" link on the Ayatana Discussion team page (https

Re: [Ayatana] Mosaic Snap feature for Natty

2011-03-14 Thread Marco Biscaro
Actually, this is easily configurable on ccsm (grid plugin). Maybe the *default* behaviour could be discussed here, but the feature is already implemented. On Dom, 2011-03-13 at 19:42 -0300, klevi...@gmail.com wrote: > You know, Snap (or Aero Snap) is a great feature and very useful > indeed, but

Re: [Ayatana] Redundant information on window "bar"?

2011-03-14 Thread Marco Biscaro
If you are talking about the text on title bar, it is there by design (because when you are working with non-maximized windows, you need to know where and what are each of them). On Dom, 2011-03-13 at 22:48 -0600, Ian Santopietro wrote: > I do agree somewhat, though it is useful for finding the id

Re: [Ayatana] folders for unity

2011-03-14 Thread Bazon
Yes, Folders in the launcher is a good idea to avoid overfilling it. I'm used to have folders in my previous launchers or docks as well. On 13.03.2011 12:29, David wrote: Hi, my idea: we have 3 types of "folders" ( or mini-dash ;-) ) one for files one for launchers and one for open windows (im

Re: [Ayatana] Animation Speeds in Unity.

2011-03-14 Thread Marco Biscaro
Well, the animation time of Expo (workspace zooming) is 0.3 seconds by default. The animation time of minimizing is 0.22 seconds. I don't think that this makes difference in pratice. Although I don't realize any slow effect, the animation times can be configured using ccsm (but I think that the cu

Re: [Ayatana] window and workspace management in unity

2011-03-14 Thread Bazon
OK, as this troubled me too much, I filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/734253 ("very hard to distinguish/select text documents in the expose window spread") this bug is now tagged as "needs-design", so if anyone from you likes to demonstrate his/her design skills

Re: [Ayatana] Unity Dash Mockup

2011-03-14 Thread Marco Biscaro
The mockups look like good. It's a suggestion for dash navigation (that does not exist yet). It's similar to USC navigation, and doing it this way is really nice for consistency. However, it's too late for Natty. The dash navigation will be designed and implemented only for Natty+1. On Seg, 2011-

Re: [Ayatana] Unity Dash Mockup

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Santopietro
I feel like those mockups remove the focus of Dash as a sort of "Search engine". Search foremost. Also, I was under the assumption that the finished Dash would mimick the current state of Unity-2D (With fancy compiz effects, of course.) I do like the bread crumbs though. Maybe if the left-right lay

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] Global menu really frustrating in virtual machines

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Ritchie wrote on 08/03/11 10:57: > > The global menu is based on the assumption that it's easier to hit the > corner of the screen than it is to hit the edge of the active window. > > This breaks down, however, when the mouse doesn't actually st

Re: [Ayatana] Minimize a window in Unity by clicking it's icon

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kostas & Sytske wrote on 11/03/11 16:04: >... > At the moment it is only possible to maximize a window but it's not > possible to minimize a window in Unity by clicking it's icon. > The minimize button in the top panel is a option but it would be nice

Re: [Ayatana] Redundant information on window "bar"?

2011-03-14 Thread Jarlath Reidy
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Marco Biscaro wrote: > If you are talking about the text on title bar, it is there by design > (because when you are working with non-maximized windows, you need to > know where and what are each of them). > > On Dom, 2011-03-13 at 22:48 -0600, Ian Santopietro wrot

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
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] Zooming the Icon on the launcher (like Docky does)

2011-03-14 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2011/3/11 Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga > Hi all > > Would it be not a good idea to make the launcher more living by adding a > zoom when we are moving the mouse over an icon on the launcher as Docky does > ? > Unity has made a good step forward and it would good to make it more living > by adding this

[Ayatana] Aero-Expo Reconciliation

2011-03-14 Thread Jonathan Meek
I've seen many calling for an aero-peek-like function to be brought into Unity. I would like to say that by and large this is completely unnecessary given that Unity's already present expo feature.* However I do see that there is room for improvement in the implementation with the addition of tab/d

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] Zooming the Icon on the launcher (like Docky does)

2011-03-14 Thread Remco
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 20:58, gnomeu...@gmail.com wrote: > 2011/3/11 Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga >> >> Hi all >> >> Would it be not a good idea to make the launcher more living by adding a >> zoom when we are moving the mouse over an icon on the launcher as Docky does >> ? >> Unity has made a good s

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-14 Thread Conscious User
In an effort to get *some* reaction other than Jeremy's to this thread, let me ask something to the people of this list: how many of you actually use Evolution? And how many of you feel confortable with the current way it's integrated to the Messaging Menu (and now Unity)? More specifically, how

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-14 Thread appi2...@gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Gian wrote: > Hello everybody, > that's my first time posting here, so hi! :) > > I think the proposed solutions of a 2-sided launcher have a great advantage > over the current implementation: currently on large monitors the places > shortcuts may end well below t

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-14 Thread Elias K Gardner
Overall I like 3 where all the gray icons (trash, drives, applications and files & folders) are available when the dock is out. But I think the drives should also be available when the dock is in like in 1. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-14 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tuesday 15,March,2011 09:21 AM, Conscious User wrote: > > In an effort to get *some* reaction other than Jeremy's to this > thread, let me ask something to the people of this list: how > many of you actually use Evolution? And how many of you feel > confortable with the current way it's integra

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-14 Thread Elias K Gardner
Disclaimer: I don't use evolution. Ive tried numerous times and each time I have quickly returned to webmail. I have a simple mail notification program with an option for going to the website and one turning the message menu from green back to white. I reinstalled evolution-indicator tonight to te