Hi,
This is the first time I've posted to this list, so please forgive me if I'm
doing something wrong.
First of all, I really like the idea of window status indicators. It could
be an extremely useful feature.
I've also heard that in unity, maximizing the window would add the
windicators to the
Hi,
NOTE: I tried to post this earlier, but I might not have been properly
subscribed, so this may or may not be a duplicate. -- Sorry, this is my
first time using a launchpad mailing list.
First of all, I really like the idea of window status indicators. It could
be an extremely useful feature.
Hi.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:08, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> We can (and should) provide a spinny in the indicator icon itself during
> the transmit phase, and use a green or red flash (like the one you get
> during ajaxy updates in Launchpad) to indicate success or failure.
I really like th
Hi
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Luke Benstead wrote:
> I think we should have a divider between the social networking stuff, and
> the IM statuses as they are not related. Also, I'm not entirely sure why we
> need the name on the me menu when there is a name on the Me-menu button
> itself.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> Then perhaps consider using visual metaphors for available and busy,
> instead of (only) color.
>
The color was just for the mockup, by the way. I like the current symbolic
icons better.
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Since tabs in firefox and nautilus are just ways of combining multiple windows
into one, why not have the window manager handle tabs for all apps? Maybe apps
like firefox or nautilus etc could tell the window manager that they want
tabbed windows, and it could be done for them. This would make t
On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Diego Moya wrote:
> I think you've just described the rationale for the new Ubuntu panel menus
> (Sound-, Network-, Me-menus). So what you're suggesting would be akin to
> dismiss the windicator idea and have all windows notifications centralized in
> standardized
On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
> Why exactly do we want the WM to be handling tabs here? Trying to do
> tabbed applications within the window manager for the sake of having
> tabs is a huge waste of memory, especially when the application itself
> can already do tabs.
>
Standar
On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> It accurately portrays the condition... Just like how the date/time indicator
> accurately portrays the time, but the date is hidden away in the menu. A
> single click and you can find out the more in-depth information as needed.
To me, at lea
Currently, when a user logs in to a unity session, they are presented with a
dock and a top panel. The rest of the space shows just a pretty picture.
Although I like background images, I feel that for a portable device such as
a netbook, this space can be put to better use.
My proposal is to have
I like all these ideas, but why not do what KDE4 did, and present a desktop
of files, a zeitgeist timeline, etc. as widgets, so you could have access to
files and useful information?
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On Aug 9, 2010, at 5:56 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Ryan Peters wrote on 07/08/10 20:12:
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>> It makes more sense for "Preferences" to go
>> under the "Application" menu than a "Tools" or "Edit" menu, doesn't it?
>
> Yes, it does -- a
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 08/08/10 20:49, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
> > I like all these ideas, but why not do what KDE4 did, and present a
> > desktop of files, a zeitgeist timeline, etc. as widgets, so you could
> > have access to files a
I think the fact that the memenu even shows the state changing buttons even
when chat is off is ridiculous. How is the user supposed to know that to turn
those buttons useable, he has to go to a different menu?
There was a recent thread about a memenu redesign, in which I made a mockup
that fix
I think the fact that the memenu even shows the state changing buttons even
when chat is off is ridiculous. How is the user supposed to know that to turn
those buttons useable, he has to go to a different menu?
There was a recent thread about a memenu redesign, in which I made a mockup
that fix
On Sep 7, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:41, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Frederik Nnaji wrote on 05/09/10 12:22:
> >...
> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:17, Apoorva Sharma >...
> >> I think the fact that the memenu even shows t
I agree with the fact that unity doesn't use space efficiently by presenting
the user with a black desktop, and as a solution, I proposed a widget layer
instead of a traditional desktop. For such a layer,
an HTML/CSS/JS UI layer would be nice.
>
>
And luckily, this already exists! See GNOME Seedk
> In high
> resolutions, an excellent candidate is the (currently wasted)
> space in the middle of the top panel. For low resolutions the
> problem is a little bit more hairy, methinks...
>
That is just what I was thinking. How about an android-esque model, where
the entire panel contents fade out
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Mark Curtis wrote:
> Trying to find an area of the screen that won't obscure all applications
> is fruitless. There is no single location that won't end up obscuring SOME
> application's interface.
> Popular applications such as GIMP (right and left), Inkscape (
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mark Curtis wrote:
> Wouldn't that block EVERY application's "File Edit, etc" menu? I'm
> referring specifically Unity here as the subject is "Unity and
> notifications".
>
>
I meant just the indicator icons part, since those only display system
status, and since
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Walter Wittel wrote:
> And this further reinforces Diego's statement:
> "Apoorva Sharma proposed in this trhead a mockup that wouldn't need
> configuration as it only obscures system information, which IMHO is a
> better design because
Right now, the Messaging Menu and MeMenu are kind of connected, in that the
functionality of the MeMenu changes by clicks in the Messaging Menu. For
example, to get a text box for a broadcast account in the MeMenu, the user
has to go to the Messaging Menu to start Gwibber. Furthermore, to actually
Sorry for taking this even further off track, but...
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, fain182 wrote:
> I think should be something global, not local to an application,
> because this wouldn't solve the problem of discoverability of the
> click on the track, and of all the applications that doesn
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 19:42, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
>
>> Regarding the original thread, with such an indicator, a click of the
>> track would cause the clipboard indicator to become a solid green, and thus
>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Conscious User wrote:
>
>
> > I'd rather have the message just pop up in front of me then have to go
> > through a menu. That is about as close to real life as you can get.
>
>
> Disagreed. In real life, sometimes when someone calls "hey, do you have
> a sec?" and
Hi.
I think that the current idea of having the sidebar have a solid background
is a bad idea.
Whenever the dash is activated or a place is opened, the top bar turns
transparent. However, when the top bar is solid, it seems that the sidebar
is underneath it. When the top bar suddenly disappears,
Personally, I feel that system settings should not be presented as a
category in the applications place in unity, especially since they are
separated in the gnome menus. When I (or most users) think of applications,
they think of things that allow them to create, view, or edit their files.
System s
On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:29 PM, cmaglothin wrote:
> I do not know whether this is the correct place to post this, but after a
> couple weeks of using Natty I felt that the current indicator for networking
> is rather messy. I do not mean that in a way that is harmful, and I feel that
> this is
To me, the current background of the quicklists seemed quite out of place. So
much so, in fact, that I filed a bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/697782
I was told to ask the design team about the background choice. So I'm going to
do so now:
Why is the grid background used now,
Although gnome tweak tool does provide some options for customizing themes and
fonts (I'm not too sure about the latter), it is not installed by default. This
is a problem, especially since ubuntu ships with 2 default themes, but without
a way to switch them.
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First of all, I would like to say job well done to the folks who made this
new design. It removes the clutter from the launcher, and adds the blur that
makes the dash so much more readable.
However, I am concerned by the decision to change the dash and panel to
match the color of the desktop. I am
If we want the dash to fit in with the user's color palette, why not have it
use the gtk theme?
That would be just as customizable, and also opens the possibility of having a
contrast from the desktop and the dash.
Also, using the background color makes the dash seem really out of place when
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:19 AM, callum saunders
wrote:
> Considering that Ubuntu Oneiric doesn't have any default way of changing
> the theme, i don't think that would be as easily customisable.
> Whereas the wallpaper is the main way most people make a desktop "their
> own" anyway.
>
I guess y
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM, André Oliva wrote:
> So, what do you think about this idea?
>
> I'm really concerned about how an user new to Ubuntu will react when he
> wants to invoke the launcher when a window is maximized with the current
> design.
>
> André.
Although this I see your conce
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 28 August 2011 21:10, matt wrote:
> > I think that for new users having the menus hidden until mouse over by
> > default is not necessarily a preferential option. Could the menus be
> > shown by default (window title in the middle), with
On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Mahdee Jameel wrote:
> Currently there is no way to change icon themes in oneiric. Is there any plan
> to add back icon theme changing to appearance preferences? At least a basic
> drop down like the theme changer would be much appreciated.
> While we're at it, th
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