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

g and drop 2 Docks: unity.exemo.net SlideUpDown unity.exemo.net/4 flipp over unity.exemo.net/5 different flipp over what do you say? David Reichling 2011/3/13 David : > Hi, > can someone tell me how to make a new thread here? > I tried twice to send an mail to ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

[Ayatana] folders for unity

find more types of "folders" http://unity.exemo.net/6/ Click on Firefox, Ubuntu One and Nautilus to see it in action What do you think? David Reichling ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] folders for unity

Hi, you can forget the ubuntu one logo. It was already in the mockup and i put the folder somewhere randomly. of course there would be an other icon. my idea is more to have a folder where you can put a few shortcuts. Not something like show ~/Music in the launcher David Reichling 2011/3/13 M

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

t clicking the button just takes you back to the clutter you were trying to avoid by splitting the icons in the first place. what do you think. What if we remove apps and places icons and put it at the first page of the dash David Reichling ___ Mailing l

[Ayatana] how could we switch better between windows?

ch we get: some unnamed doc... some unnamed doc... some unnamed doc... some unnamed doc... Would it be technically possible to get in that case something like: some unnamed ... 1 some unnamed ... 2 some unnamed ... 3 some unnamed ... 4 What do you think? David Reichling ps: now that natty comes clos

Re: [Ayatana] Design problems in general

re elements of unity. but give me some time ... David Reichling 2011/3/16 Thorsten Wilms : > On 03/16/2011 02:21 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 09:01:59 am Thorsten Wilms wrote: > >>> Sometimes the problem may be certain users stubbornness rat

Re: [Ayatana] Activities/Downloads Unity Place

Hi, +1 see this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/ProgressIndication but i don't know what is the actual state of planning. because this idea is already old David Reichling 2011/3/19 Peterson Silva : > There's already a file transfer indicator =) Adapting it to also show > download

Re: [Ayatana] List of running windows of an application in the launcher quicklist

Hi, i did a mockup already some time ago: http://unity.exemo.net/7/ click on firefox to see how it could look David Reichling 2011/3/27 Tomasz Janusz : > Yes, i created smillar bug on Launchpad in last week and we can merge it. > And I agree "Expo" effect is pretty, but n

Re: [Ayatana] Comments on the Device & User Menu specs

Would it be possible to have: Power users > show mounted icons on launcher Like the old: gnome > show mounted devices on desktop ? I prefer having neither showing as I usually only access my device once after I plug it in, and it can appear poorly organised if there are 4+ devices mounted sho

Re: [Ayatana] Comments on the Device & User Menu specs

r did this! <3 - Original Message - From: "David" To: "nick rundy" , ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Wednesday, 3 August, 2011 3:00:19 AM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Comments on the Device & User Menu specs Would it be possible to have: Power users > show

Re: [Ayatana] Software center icon needs designers minds, and new humanity desktop methafor.

I see many criticisms yet a lack of proposals for a suitable replacement. >> Without an explaination, people could dismiss that icon thinking "I >> don't want to buy applications, I'll go to the internet and see where >> I can get some free .exes" :-p There was a variation of that issue with t

Re: [Ayatana] super+n+up/down/home to rearrange launcher icons.

I like the idea, but wouldn't it mean coding a delay before Unity actually launches the program? Otherwise, how will it know whether you want to launch or just move the icon? I've been thinking of something similar for a while; my idea was to have launchers that opened more than one program a

Re: [Ayatana] Session management in the dash

I don't understand, I thought the way to shutdown/logout etc was by clicking on the cog in the top right and selecting shut down...? - ikt - Original Message - From: "Carl Ansell" To: "ayatana" Sent: Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 2:42:15 AM Subject: [Ayatana] Session management in the dash

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

"In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at a time instead of the whole group." Something is not right with the unity launcher for sure, multiple windows of the same application is a massive pita a

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

ubject: Re: [Ayatana] Proposes to change launcher's behaviour with multiple windows Den 18. okt. 2011 17:38, skrev David: > "In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a > stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at > a ti

Re: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indicator menus

I think they need to make unity more themeable so theme's like the one you propose can be made. - ikt - Original Message - From: "frederik nnaji" To: "Matt Richardson" Cc: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Sunday, 30 October, 2011 8:31:58 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indi

Re: [Ayatana] The dash should display recent stuff.

s what the Amazon Fire does. They even show the latest websites you used etc. > What do you think? I like that idea David Reichling ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchp

[Ayatana] new proposal for notifications / indicators

launcher? dash? - should we show the network-indicator as long as you have never been connected - people might not know how to connect to the internet - what are other problems with this? I am working on a mockup (in form of a webpage) so that you can try it out and see how it would work/l

Re: [Ayatana] new proposal for notifications / indicators

Hi, i didn't explained my idea good enough and you and probably others have understand me wrong.so i try to explain with different words. the basic idea is that when you turn the computer on it shows the minimum of indicators thats possible.http://unity.exemo.net/panel_beginning.png you can expand

Re: [Ayatana] new proposal for notifications / indicators

that Ubuntu doesn't even > have any more!) would be visible by default, but a clock would not. With me menu it didn't mean to use it 100% like we had it. That's why i added like gnome-shell. What if we would remove the "me menu" and show the clock instead? A probl

[Ayatana] Test message

This is a test message. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Ayatana] Invitation to join the Ayatana list / IRC channel

Hi, We're opening today the Ayatana mailing list and #ayatana IRC channel, where we're inviting community members, developers as well as users, to discuss our projects. In the last few weeks, we have already published: * notify-osd, Canonical's new on-screen notification agent * and the indic

Re: [Ayatana] Getting rolling for 9.10

l that with you in a few weeks. In the meantime, we can use the list to prepare this session. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Getting rolling for 9.10

Scott Kitterman wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:46:17 +0100 David Barth wrote: ... Could you coordinate with your "masked" developer friend to represent him at the Summit. ... You are being too subtle for me here perhaps, unless perhaps you think I'm acting as a sock p

Re: [Ayatana] Thoughts on notify-osd API

hide should be reconsidered. The Plasma API should help make that more generic. # RFC: Is only called by recalc_size() and stack_notify_handler(), but # stack_notify_handler() calls recalc_size() just after, so it can be # made private (even more if recalc_size() is made private as

Re: [Ayatana] [ayatana]new member and new submision

if artwork is more a matter of taste and is quite personal, could you comment on what in your backgrounds and iconset expresses the values of Ubuntu and/or would help users enjoy a more usable desktop? David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.

Re: [Ayatana] [ayatana]new member and new submision

r how your proposed feature would overlap with this functionality as it stands in Add/Remove. David On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Anthony McTaggart wrote: > Although I think an application like this one's usefulness or redundancy > (Gnome-Do, Launchy, Katapult, etc) is up for debat

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

idering that for the initial release, but didn't have a ready-to-use solution for implementing the feature. Now, we've found some clever tricks with X to monitor inputs. I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a m

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

he notifications till one sec after he's done), but I don't > think we should try to guess the use case based on input activity. This > could fail in many cases. > Interesting. Do you have data on this? Or would you have a list of

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > David Barth wrote: > >> I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a monitor, >> similar to what kwin does, to delay the display of notifications. >> >> Aurélien: could you take a look at this last one? >>

Re: [Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

will have to read the notification to have confidence that the act of plugging into AC power worked. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ay

Re: [Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: David Siegel wrote: 1. Confirmation that the AC adapter was plugged in and the computer is now charging (some laptops have finicky plugs). The charging emblem on the icon should show that, as should the title "*AC power*". 2. (Maybe) how much time remains

Re: [Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

Steve Dodier wrote: I meant the battery icon with an AC adaptator in the bottom right corner, actually. What do you mean by zigzag ? By zigzag, I think Mark means a little energy/bolt emblem overlaying the battery icon. The zigzag/bolt appears if and only if the battery is charging. David

Re: [Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

Steve, please use a bzr branch on launchpad instead of sending tarball iterations to the list. David Steve Dodier wrote: Hello, I tweaked the icons a little with the help of macvr. Attached the new (and, I hope, final) icons

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

nk to a list of applications that have a fullscreen mode? This will help us reason about user scenarios. Let's put full screen apps here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FullScreenApplications David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana P

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

Vadim Peretokin wrote: Any application can be made fullscreen via the "Toggle fullscreen mode" in Gnome. I'm guessing you'd like a list of the practical ones. Good guess. David PS: Can I fullscreen Nautilus? ___ Mailing list: h

Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed

"click the x" approach? ~Brian You cannot click on the bubbles, there is no concept of bubble clicking. Clicks go through them. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscri

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors

can applications be given a say in this? Or can we create a blacklist? Would a default blacklist, with per-application notify-osd control for the user be a good option? David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed

is not somehow made explicit, either by requiring user interaction, or displaying some sort of persistent "notifications are blocked" icon. David so now ,is the solution never to have an im/email client open? i would say the presence of a easy close, would be a welcome

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd shows as one of Ubuntu's "papercuts"

es can display about three words before line wrapping occurs. Making these bubbles slightly wider will decrease strain on your eyes when reading them, and will allow you to read short messages more quickly. I believe David Siegel is a member of this team, correct? David, doe

Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd shows as one of Ubuntu's "papercuts"

rt. Thank you, David ajmctaggart wrote: No concern, just happened to see it on the Planet. I really like the idea of the "paper cuts," and was simply reading your most recent post on it. When I went to look at the bug, perhaps I don't read the bugs correctly, but it looked

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

gh my notebook the other day. It would be really great if when update-manager presented itself, some bugs (ones that you reported/subscribed to on LP) had a nice messsage that made you really excited to update because your bug was fixed! Make updates fun! David Siegel also had a really great i

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

and log in at any point. David Alex Launi wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:51 AM, mac_v <mailto:drkv...@yahoo.com>> wrote: First of all you painted a story saying: devs had update ready in the night and the user got the update in the morning! That is misleading ! It was

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

s a much more pleasant experience than asking the user at shutdown. At GDM, the user is not in a hurry, and they can take a moment to decide if they would like to update or not. Asking the user to update at shutdown feels like a rushed decision; the machine is shutting down, a

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: 2009/6/17 David Siegel <mailto:david.sie...@canonical.com>> I think it would be interesting if the user must wait at GDM for updates to finish (assuming they were downloaded previously), and is only allowed to log in when updates have finished. Thi

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

any more. The "Set it and forget it" mentality of updates at shutdown is actually a very advanced user behavior, and does not work well for anyone, even advanced users,

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

and less on the use case of a sedentary desktop. David tacone wrote: People who auto-login or never restart can be handled differently. Personally, I auto-login, so I would not use this feature, but let's not think of gurus like us, who participate on Linux mailing lists, and let'

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

My role! :) David David Siegel wrote: My roll on the Canonical Design and User Experience team is to make Ubuntu the most enjoyable to use operating system in the world, so I hope you can forgive me for making "[it offers a] more pleasant experience" the main thrust of my argume

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login (was: Re: [Fwd: Update manager])

I think this is the ideal, but every time I start to bring up implicit updates, I get smacked :) David Wouter Stomp wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Siegel wrote: Most of us would be perfectly comfortable initiating an update on shutdown, and walking away from our machine, but

Re: [Ayatana] New discussion suggested: Features needed, but absent in Ubuntu

eature requests so they do not qualify as paper cuts. If you see a great feature request in here that you believe would improve usability in Ubuntu, tag the bug "feature-request" and we can continue to track these suggestions. David Joseph A. Feinstein wrote: There are (usability) f

[Ayatana] One Hundred Paper Cuts -- the first ten (as sent to ubuntu-devel)

o get involved with these first ten before early next week, but if a paper cut is not blocking on their involvement (many are not) and you can make progress, by all means please do so. Thank you, David PS: For the curious, here are the potential remaining paper cuts: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.n

Re: [Ayatana] One Hundred Paper Cuts -- the first ten (as sent to ubuntu-devel)

I've created a project milestone with a more stable set of ten paper cuts to fix by next Friday: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+milestone/round-1 David David Siegel wrote: We've identified the first ten of one hundred paper cuts* that we plan to fix for Karmi

Re: [Ayatana] Idea: for Ayatana to have oversight of highly visible projects.

orm of mockups. Most of them having confusing or incomplete titles and descriptions, and need to have contact established with upstream stakeholders in the form of bug reports, and contact with developers on IRC and email to stir up motivation to address some of the longstanding usability issues

[Ayatana] (A tentative list of) One Hundred Paper Cuts

://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+milestone/round-1 for Friday and we're making great progress! David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :

Re: [Ayatana] Upgrading without need for Reboot

or whatever is actually appropriate. > I think the Platform Foundation guys have been taking a look. For the desktop however, there are quite a few other elements that do not currently support hot code swapping, like D-Bus that brings down the whole session if you

Re: [Ayatana] notification for multimedia keys?

a change of a different scale where not all application developers agree on the proposed standard. So in the meantime, I think we're going to patch more applications to have them provide feedback directly, but may be revert to using normal notifications, because we have fewer guarantees on the re

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

MS, we completely remove the pain from rebooting after updates -- in fact, the user probably won't even notice the reboot (we should suppress startup sounds on the reboot). David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to

[Ayatana] One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 2 Progress Report

(From http://davidsiegel.org/100papercuts-round-2/) With many developers attending Gran Canaria Desktop Summit last week, the second milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project

[Ayatana] One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 3

patch, or to make the fix themselves. * Collect user data via informal (or formal!) user testing and report it on the bug. * Blog about this week's milestone, or individual bugs. Happy healing, David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ay

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 410220] Re: Indicator applet Always shows icon

option should automatically check itself ("Hide the icon when there are no new messages") - when the option is set, the UI to arrange app. launchers should be grayed out (indicating that none of the launchers will be shown anyway), whereas when it's not set, the user ca

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 410220] Re: Indicator applet Always shows icon

#x27;d have to start it, configure it, and then set the preference to remove it. On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:24 +0100, David Barth wrote: seems a bit difficult to discover. I think we need an option in the Preferences to hide the icon. I disagree with this. I think that it is hard to discover i

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 410220] Re: Indicator applet Always shows icon

preferences and disable the launcher. If the messaging menu lets you access a simple blacklist, you can just go there and uncheck Evolution and be done with it. David On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:24 +0100, David Barth wrote: seems a bit difficult to discover. I think we need an option in the Pre

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 410220] Re: Indicator applet Always shows icon

On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:14AM , Rick Spencer wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:06 -0500, David Siegel wrote: For a concrete example, consider Evolution. To remove the Evolution launcher from the messaging menu, you'd have to launch Evolution and set up your email account before you can a

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 410220] Re: Indicator applet Always shows icon

On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:29AM , Rick Spencer wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:20 -0500, David Siegel wrote: On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:14AM , Rick Spencer wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:06 -0500, David Siegel wrote: For a concrete example, consider Evolution. To remove the Evolution launcher

Re: [Ayatana] New notification placement

reenSaverInfo; accessible with XScreenSaverQueryInfo* *We should need to do the query only before displaying a new notification, to know whether to apply the "no-fade-when-mouse-is-there" feature or not. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] New notification placement

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > David Barth wrote: > >> However, using the XScreenSaver extension, the X server is maintaining >> this information for us, so that we can track the idle time, without >> doing any polling, in particular when no notification is on display. >

Re: [Ayatana] Notify OSD: Talk about giving the user preferences

tion would reside could be a tough choice. My preference from most to least favourite would be: 1) "Appearance" preferences 2) A new "Notifications" preference option (seen in Jaunty Alpha/Beta) 3) gconf database Regards, David _

Re: [Ayatana] Notify OSD: Talk about giving the user preferences

Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > I wonder if the easiest form of preference would be for the user to > be able to drag the notification somewhere and for it to remember > where you left it (with a check that it's still on the screen given > your current monitor setup). This let

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

efault. Now that the protocol has been standardized and approved by both Gnome and KDE, it would make sense for them to reconsider using that feature by default. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.laun

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

mac_v wrote: > From: David Barth > To: Steve Dodier > Cc: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009 1:59:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency > > Steve Dodier wrote: > >> +1 too, but it'll require Mozilla to n

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu User Experience Guidelines

's good for us, and never when it does more harm than good :) lol David On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: Ayatana Listers, It is a good thing that Ubuntu has been paying much attention to UX through this project. This is what open source (and technology in general) need

Re: [Ayatana] Call for Ayatana input for Kubuntu Release Announcement

is a short paragraph with some screenshot. Let us prepare that tomorrow morning. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

e and tell the session manager how to restore it. If some applications don't work, then that's an application bug, and you should open a bug report for that application" If you report a bug for this against the empathy package, please subscribe me to it. David > >> This

Re: [Ayatana] why doesn't indicator-applet-session's status menu show icons?

about that? > > > > > > Hi , > I recall mpt mentioned it was supposed to have an icon: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgnome/+bug/407621/comments/17 > > It would be a bug , i guess. It would alse be a paper cut :) David ___

[Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

entry (e.g. the menu entry under the cursor) were shown? David * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/403691 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.ne

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:37 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 12, 2010, at 01:53 PM, David Siegel wrote: > > >Drawing upon the discussion surrounding the bug "Underline under > >accelerator characters in buttons and menu bar should only show when Alt > >is pr

Re: [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

I've tried Pencil and had very little luck. While it's not open source, I recommend Balsamiq Mockups (an AIR app). We should build a native, free clone of it :) David On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:11 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > Hello All, > > I just discovered the Pencil proje

[Ayatana] Lucid theme - window controls location

Hi, I've looked in the list archive but (to my surprise) didn't see any discussion relating to the position of the window (minimise, maximise, close) controls in the Lucid theme - my apologies if it's there and I've missed it. I imagine most people here are aware that the decision to move the con

Re: [Ayatana] Lucid theme - window controls location

On 12 March 2010 18:58, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > If it was part of the new theme and it was just a matter of going to > appearance and flipping to another theme or customising to the way > you like them then I haven't got a big problem with it Same here, but that wo

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera

with shapes that demonstrate the associated gestures. As you can see, featuritis immediately sets in when we have an "other" button, but I think we're on to something! Let's continue the discussion and see if anyone can help us prototype :) David 2010/3/26 Mark Shuttleworth >

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera

screen -- for example, pull to the right and see a nice overlay/silhouette of the right-maximized state of the window.\ David On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: > Cool. That "other" button can be rendered like a joystick. The idea would > be disorienting to

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera

Le vendredi 26 mars 2010 à 06:18 +, Mark Shuttleworth a écrit : > Hi folks > > Got this interesting proposal from Pablo, and thought it should be > sent to the list rather than handled in private correspondence. It > reminds me of something David Siegel was sketching out, als

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Proposal of new UI element for windows in Ubuntu: Esfera

ot;User wants two File Manager windows side-by-side to drag files between them"). David 2010/3/26 Pablo Quirós : > >> >> I hadn't thought about this until now, but I can't remember the last >> time I've hit maximize.  Double clicking the title bar toggles

[Ayatana] Restart required indicator

Hi, I really like that the power icon goes red when a restart is required - good job! A further refinement would be to make the "Restart required..." text in the menu red as well, to tie the meaning of the icon colour to the menu action... Cheers, Dave. -- http://www.witchesband.com/

Re: [Ayatana] [Concept suggestion] About the new possibilities for the top right window buttons on the new Ubuntu visual

Interesting ideas. Something similar I've seen is in Mac OS X where document-based application windows have little icon in the window titlebar that represents the underlying file. You can drag this icon and drop it on an application icon in the Dock to open that file in another application, for exa

Re: [Ayatana] [Concept suggestion] About the new possibilities for the top right window buttons on the new Ubuntu visual

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:30 AM, David Siegel wrote: > Interesting ideas. Something similar I've seen is in Mac OS X where > document-based application windows have little icon in the window titlebar > that represents the underlying file. You can drag this icon and drop it on > an

Re: [Ayatana] Indicators for showing progress

2010/4/14 Mark Shuttleworth > > I think the idea of an aggregated "downloads" indicator has merit. > > I'm not sure about other long-running processes, like a copy-to-network > or burn-cd action. I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and I've come to the conclusion that one of the thing

Re: [Ayatana] MeMenu status message

st message. To express this idea in terms of other familiar ideas, we'd basically show a text entry that turns into a text entry + combo box when you click it to set your status, and also has auto-completion for standard status options. This could be cool! Thoughts? David On Mon, Apr 19, 2010

Re: [Ayatana] MeMenu status message

Yes, something like that with some nice animations. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Indicators for showing progress

smission to run in the ionice idle class and set similar classes for the other desktop apps accordingly. At least to test if the approach would make any difference. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.l

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

On 22 April 2010 08:49, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > The workspaces experience has languished, and I'd > like for us to climb in and improve it substantially. At the moment, we > do a half-hearted job - we ship what's there but as you say, only > configure two workspaces. I'd be inclined to say "sh

Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great (branched from "Farewell to the notification area")

> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to     : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > That's interesting. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Making workspaces great (branched from "Farewell to the notification area")

Guys, this is an excellent discussion. Will someone please volunteer to organize some of what's been said on a wiki page, or Google Doc/Wave, or something? Otherwise these ideas will likely never escape this thread. David On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Robin Anderson wrote: > Here&#

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

27;t see Application Search in my accessories menu, but if you've found in there it should be very easy to place it in the top-level applications menu. It would be a great project to improve this dialog and merge it with the many different Open With... dialog implementations to introduce FAYT to user

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

27;re proposing. It will help keep this discussion focused and minimize entropy. David On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:27, Luke Benstead wrote: >> I like the mockup, but I think something similar to the attached would >> be ni

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

use cases: https://docs.google.com/templates?hl=en&q=canonical David On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 18:39, Frederik Nnaji > wrote: >> FAYT METHOD >> Netbookuser47 presses ALT+F1 [1], is instantly offered "find >&g

Re: [Ayatana] Integrating Application Search & Install

Seif, that's off-topic. These threads are easy enough to derail! David On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Seif Lotfy wrote: > What do you think of http://yfrog.com/g4wacp > It has been something I have been working on and that also supports live > searching :) > > On Mon, Apr

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

What does this have to do with the notification area changes? Please continue this conversation elsewhere if you must. Let's all do our part to keep Ayatana discussions on track. David ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Po

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

there is reluctance to change the behavior because upstream considers it a feature. They're wrong, it's broken, let's fix it. David On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Conscious User wrote: > >> Just because other programs are doing it doesnt make the functionality >>

Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

that provides small convenience for a small group of users, and great inconvenience for most users. David On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Shane Fagan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:43 +1200, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: >> I agree with David. >> >> >> Fix the bug with

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