[Ayatana] Unity design and discussion

2010-10-30 Thread Alexander Lancey
Hello everyone. Is there a specific place to discuss the design of Unity, is particular adapting it for the desktop release? -Alex ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launch

Re: [Ayatana] Unity Question

2010-11-03 Thread Alexander Lancey
That's awesome. I've been using Unity a lot on my laptop and the full sizing does get annoying. On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 10:45 -0400, Jason Smith wrote: > To clarify my answer, the code in unity currently does a detection to > see if a maximization makes sense. This detection is based on window > ty

Re: [Ayatana] File menu

2010-11-09 Thread Alexander Lancey
I would put the application's name behind the files name in most if not all instances. It really bugs me when some applications more than fill the space shown for window title with just the app name. On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:20 +0100, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi appi, nice thinking! > >

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-11-09 Thread Alexander Lancey
Potentially put some sort of highlight or glow around the menu's icon for notifications (mail and chat). On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 08:28 +0100, David Callé wrote: > Le lundi 08 novembre 2010 à 17:17 -0600, appi2...@gmail.com a écrit : > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas > > wrote

[Ayatana] Some ideas for the Software Center

2010-12-11 Thread Alexander Lancey
Firstly, sorry if this the wrong mailing list. I've been thinking about the Software Center, and I came up with three ideas I'd like to see. Two are related to offline functionality - queueing and caching. I recently tried to select a package for installation, while I was offline. Instead of it s

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-13 Thread Alexander Lancey
I agree with the fact that on vertical-screen (aka most screens) devices the global menu won't be that great. However, for vertical screens it's a good space saver. That panel space would not normally be utilized, and it cuts space of every window. Integrating it with the launcher would be really

Re: [Ayatana] The top right thing

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Lancey
I think putting it either in the Dash or in the MeMenu makes the most sense. I don't associate shutdown with settings at all, and almost every time I go to shut down I still hit "System Settings" instead of "Shut Down". On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 07:31 +0330, Mehdi Fattahi wrote: > Maybe they should ch

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Lancey
Why does the global menu hide at all? Hiding it doesn't save a lot of space, and it an can quite annoying. -New users may have issues finding it -A user may forgot an action like Edit -> Copy if the Edit menu isn't a visual reminder -I frequently make an L-shape as I hit the top of the screen, the

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-13 Thread Alexander Lancey
Sounds like what we're going for with the Ubuntu Tour https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tour On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Shane Fagan wrote: > I thought about this a lot but instead of a welcome center id love if > we had a nice tutorial that walks you through how to use unity. So > when you open

Re: [Ayatana] Dash caching? multiple file managers?

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Lancey
It sounds like PCManFM is the default file manager. The home folder launcher manually runs Nautilus, but I'm pretty sure the trash runs xdg-open trash:/// On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 21:25 -0400, anthropornis wrote: > I soft-upgraded to Oneiric yesterday, and today I've noticed a couple of > oddities.