[Ayatana] unity dash lens buttons: move to top. expand filters by default.

1)The latest dash (with 11.10) has a list of lenses at the bottom- center. The icons for each lens(home, apps, files, music)are kinda small and non obvious as to their purpose. IMHO, both novices and experienced users will find it more useful if the lens buttons were accompanied by a name and were

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011/10/17 Matthew Paul Thomas > > What would help here is for someone to make a screenshot comparison of > the same windows, laid out in exactly the same positions, on Ubuntu, > Windows, and OS X. > > > > We might find that the problem is partly font size, but partly also > size and padding

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

I've created such a comparsion. First label shows default monospace font in Windows and in Ubuntu (gedit). Second label (Setup is loading...) shows Windows interface font (setup program) compared to Ubuntu interface font (made in Glade). See how much Windows fonts are clearer and take a lot l

Re: [Ayatana] Proposes to change launcher's behaviour with multiple windows

On 19/10/11 14:43, Evan Huus wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Matt Richardson > wrote: I received this a few days ago so hopefully it should be fixed: - snip - * Tags added: udp ** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: Fix R

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

I feel I should point out that at least in my case, Windows 7 has, after a fresh install, always defaulted to the "125% bigger" font preset. My monitor is a 4:3 20in HP, 1600x1200. DPI as I recall is just about 100. I always prefer to set the fonts to the default setting (100%), but it doesn't seem

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

The letters in the Segoe example run together, and in My opinion are a bit harder to read than the Ubuntu example. In addition to this, they look clearer because of improper hinting settings, which detracts from the visual appearance of the characters and also makes them harder to read. 2011/10/20

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

They are *slightly* harder to read because they're very small (9pt). Ubuntu should use Ubuntu 10, not 11. Remember, that such huge font makes working on smaller screens very annoying (no window will fit the screen, or will force user to scroll/move windows), working on bigger screen makes fonts

[Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks For some people, it is useful to open particular applications or documents every time they log in. (For example, every day when I log in at work, I launch XChat, Firefox, and a time sheet text document.) Every version of Ubuntu has had a "S

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

It would be nice if this panel could have option to start the application minimized - for example Empathy, Skype or Pidgin. And a feature, which I think some users will find useful - startup applications added by system administrator (that cannot be deleted by ordinary user) - for example some

[Ayatana] Fwd: Re: New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

Sorry, forgot to reply to list Original Message Subject: Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:18:37 +0100 From: Matt Richardson To: Matthew Paul Thomas Isn't this functionality still provide

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

On 20 October 2011 11:34, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > I'd appreciate your feedback on the design. > I like porting Nautilus's "Open with Other Application" chooser to the Login Items screen. The current Add button in Startup Applications

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks > > For some people, it is useful to open particular applications or > documents every time they log in. > > (For example, every day when I log in at work, I launch XChat, >

[Ayatana] Reconsidering default font substitutions

[Apologies if this is a duplicate message; I sent this first with an email address other than the one in my Launchpad profile.] I'm not positive that desktop typography falls within the scope of Ayatana, but this list is my best guess. Currently in /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf (and fo

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

I like where things are going here, but wouldn't it be better to have a "remember session(s)" option (currently xfce, kde, etc. have it), also kde has "Activities" which is really great feature, is like having multiple user sessions with its own preferences, but very easy to manage, add , delet

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 863399] Re: Unity needs a way to switch (tab) between windows on current workspace

The Forums thread at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1862661 is essentially correct - the relationship between Workspaces and the rest of Unity is inconsistent. That's simply because we have not yet got to implement Workspaces the way we'd like, and what's currently shipping is the Compiz

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 863399] Re: Unity needs a way to switch (tab) between windows on current workspace

Den 20. okt. 2011 21:22, skrev Mark Shuttleworth: * Alt-TAB should only switch between apps on the current Workspace * Clicking on a Launcher icon for an app running elsewhere but not in the current Workspace, which knows how to have multiple windows and create new windows, should create a ne

Re: [Ayatana] Reconsidering default font substitutions

Is this "ubuntu has bad fonts" really "a thing"? I mean, the Joe user can't barely tell Times New Roman from Arial oO I just found this curious, but I agree with everything, and we should focus on polishing fonts and everything --- it's an aspect that makes the system look slick and all. I just fo

Re: [Ayatana] Reconsidering default font substitutions

As a quick aside: http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+ugly+fonts returns over 1 million results. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Peterson Silva wrote: > Is this "ubuntu has bad fonts" really "a thing"? I mean, the Joe user can't > barely tell Times New Roman from Arial oO > > I just found this

Re: [Ayatana] Reconsidering default font substitutions

Yeah, although that doesn't necessarily refer to that problem. 3 of the first 10 results were about bad fonts on google earth, how many might be about wine apps... Only one of them was about ugly fonts in firefox, and it was on Hardy =] *Peterson* *http://petercast.net* On 20 October 2011 20:1