Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Elias K Gardner
I think this is the best solution I have seen. I particularly like the application icon being transparent beneath its title. I do have two concerns. - What happens on small screens when the menu overlaps with the title. - I would feel much more comfortable with title on the left hand side,

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Ian Santopietro
That looks great, and solves most of everyone's complaints with the current hidden global menu. I do have one concern: what happens to the window controls when the window is maximized? you could scoot the menu over a bit, but then, that might look odd for non-maximized windows. Other than that thou

[Ayatana] Let's have the launcher phagocytize the new system tray

2011-04-20 Thread Peterson Silva
Hey, I have an idea. Maybe this was discussed here before; if it was, I'm sorry. There was an ayatana thread here discussing a short-term solution for e-mail in Ubuntu. One thing I particularly remember from it was something about duplication of effort when it comes to shortcuts and how to access

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Peterson Silva
Is this windicator thing still going on? How are things progressing on that matter? (sorry for drifting away, I'm just very curious about it) *Peterson* *http://petercast.net* On 20 April 2011 14:03, Elias K Gardner wrote: > I think this is the best solution I have seen. I particularly like t

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Ingo Gerth
My compliments, what a brilliant idea. It needs some more thought, but in my opinion this is the best solution as of yet. Especially as it is quickly recognizable which window the menu belongs to. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Ian Santopietro wrote: > That looks great, and solves most of ever

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-20 Thread Luke Benstead
On 19 April 2011 18:24, Mitja Pagon wrote: > - "Matthew Paul Thomas" wrote: >> >> It does. In the videos I watched of Charline Poirier's user test two >> weeks ago, of the eight out of ten people who could find the hidden >> menus at all, seven of them discovered the menus while mousing over

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-20 Thread Toby Smithe
2011/4/20 Luke Benstead : > If even MPT thinks things are broken then why are we continuing with > the current mess? You think Apple or Microsoft would ship with > something as ill thought out as the current panel design? I hate to point this out, but the ratio of Canonical:community e-mail addres

Re: [Ayatana] The top right thing

2011-04-20 Thread Daniel Silva
I'd call it the power button. From: Jim Campbell To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] The top right thing The documentation team is wondering what to call the power-looking icon in the top right of the scr

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Conscious User
Without explaining what is your idea for maximized windows, the usefulness of the mockup is very limited. Most people would agree that making the menubar moving left and right is not an acceptable solution, so explaining what would you do in the maximized case is essential. Le mercredi 20 avril

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread S. Christian Collins
On 04/20/2011 11:41 PM, Conscious User wrote: Without explaining what is your idea for maximized windows, the usefulness of the mockup is very limited. Most people would agree that making the menubar moving left and right is not an acceptable solution, so explaining what would you do in the maxi

Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

2011-04-20 Thread Ryan Prior
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Conscious User wrote: > > Without explaining what is your idea for maximized windows, the > usefulness of the mockup is very limited. > > Most people would agree that making the menubar moving left and > right is not an acceptable solution, so explaining what woul