Hi, I'm new to this list so please let me know if I'm out of turn
somehow, but I have a few ideas for future incarnations of Unity.
I was reading the Canonical Design blog post at [1], and two
particular problems caught my eye:
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First, many users seemed to have difficulty finding settings.
Curr
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Ian Santopietro wrote:
> Welcome to the list!
>
> On Apr 22, 2011 4:18 PM, "Evan Huus" wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm new to this list so please let me know if I'm out of turn
>> somehow, but I have a few ideas for future
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 22 April 2011 20:04, Evan Huus wrote:
>> To be honest, I don't find the System Settings window useful. It lists
>> almost fifty different subcategories in only a couple of major groups,
>> and while the sear
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Leo Barnes wrote:
> (My first attempt to send this mail seems to have failed... Hope I
> don't multi-post.)
>
> Hi!
Hi Leo,
> I am trying out the Ubuntu 11.04 beta and trying to get the hang of
> Unity. I like it so far, especially the Super-W and Super-S
> funct
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Leo Barnes wrote:
>> Both of these settings are configurable to taste in CompizConfig
>> Settings Manager. Look for "Scale" under "Window Management". You may
>> need to install CCSM first from the software centre.
>>
>> Regardless, altering the defaults may be wor
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Anthony Scire wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using Unity for about a week now -- which makes me perfectly
> qualified to critique every nuance of it! ;-)
About as much as the rest of us :)
> But seriously, overall, I like it. Maximizing a window has beautiful
> r
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Phong Cao wrote:
> I am too have been for a long time a Ubuntu's fan. However, I am not trying
> to be negative but... I would say that Unity's design is way far behind
> GNOME Shell in Fedora 15. I recommend anybody in this email list try out
> Fedora 15 & GNOME S
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Phong Cao wrote:
> About Unity & Gnome Shell... none of them is better than the other. It
> depends on the users.
> I am the kind of user that never open less than 5 windows at a time.
>
> As I explained above:
> 1. Try to open 3 maximized windows of Chrome, 3 maxi
I just had a quick thought. It would be very nice if the workspace
switcher button on the launcher appeared pressed whenever the user was
in Expo (either through pressing the button or via keyboard shortcut).
It would add a little bit of polish.
Cheers,
Evan
_
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
wrote:
> I just read Bartosz mail about that the running applications aren't always
> so easy to see and got an idea. Some icon sets, like Faenza which I use, is
> very colorful and since the icons are squared they almost fill the whole
> icon plac
n reality.
Evan
> On 02/05/11 23:57, Evan Huus wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just read Bartosz mail about that the running applications aren't
>>> always
>>> so easy to see and got
ike I've done now?
>
> Here is the link:
> http://i.imgur.com/bnIAE.png
>
> 2011/5/3 Niklas Rosenqvist :
>> Yeah me too, I will get working on a mockup tomorrow so that it's easier to
>> imagining the end result!
>>
>> On 03/05/11 01:11, Evan Huus wrote:
>
This debate is getting rather heated, and I'm getting quoted and
rephrased a fair bit. Let me take this opportunity to clarify both
what I actually think:
Unity is supposed to be considered 'application-centric'. In a truly
application-centric system (see iPhones, for example) there is
absolutely
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Stefanos A. wrote:
> 2011/5/8 Ed Lin
>>
>> I think that's the best implementation of taskbar meats dock offering
>> all functions of both without sacrificing too much.
>> But I'm not sure that's what you after. You are asking for a primary
>> window-centric launche
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Elias K Gardner wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Felix Lawrence
> wrote:
>>
>> Firstly, Ubuntu's dialog sheets should be draggable inside their parent
>> window.
>>
>> Secondly (and less feasibly), sheets should be attached to tabs where
>> possible, as
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
wrote:
> I agree that some sort of Welcome to Ubuntu would be
> nice to have. One easy way of achieving that, would be
> to simply run a browser in full screen with a stretched
> image of a default Ubuntu installs first desktop. We would
> then u
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 06/07/11 17:45:
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>> On 6 July 2011 13:04, Omer Akram wrote:
>>...
>>> Good news, in Oneiric system settings will be removed from the
>>> SessionMenu and
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Mark Shuttleworth
wrote:
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> It's a lovely idea, and three consecutive designers have dashed themselves
> on the rocks trying to get it right. I'd be thrilled if someone could do
> better!
>
> Here's what we found each time we tried it:
>
> The launcher is spatial,
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, M. Adnan Quaium
wrote:
> With the recent Unity update, the Ubuntu's 'circle of friends' button has
> changed it's place from the left of the top panel to the top of the
> Launcher. It seems a great move to me if the usability is considered. But to
> my view, there
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Dylan McCall wrote:
> I'm sure it's getting a different style at some point, but the use of
> the Ubuntu logo seems a little odd to me with it in the launcher. I'm
> already running Ubuntu, so why would I click to run it again? It kind
> of works against the feel o
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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> With 11.10, the window close button has been placed in the
> upper right
I think you meant left :)
> corner and so that corner can't be used to
> immediately display the launcher. But the bottom-left
> corner isn't used for anything,
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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> Den 27. aug. 2011 06:24, skrev André Oliva:
>>
>> Really I think its oversimplification of things. Not everyone wants an
>> "elementary-style" OS GUI, really. Simply there is a limit in simplification
>> of things. I simply don't unders
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
wrote:
> You seem to have very low opinion of your fellow human beings. I actually
> feel a little insulted.
I apologize, I'm sure that wasn't anybody's intention.
> But this discussion is not useful. The buttons have
> been hidden and even if
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Josh Strawbridge
wrote:
>> "I think the result of the usability test was that people clicked "home
>> folder" icon on launcher expecting the dash."
>
> i'm fairly sure that was a problem caused by how the dash button looked more
> like a logo stuck on the panel tha
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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> Den 27. aug. 2011 15:57, skrev Evan Huus:
--snip--
>> Manuals and tutorials are certainly more efficient means of teaching
>> the user, but I disagree that exploration is entirely useless. I don't
>> hav
On Monday, September 5, 2011, zekopeko wrote:
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>> Kévin PEIGNOT wrote on 04/09/11 13:04:
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>>> I don't agree. PPA should be used only to install unstable /
>>> unsupported features
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, James Jenner wrote:
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> On 27 September 2011 02:19, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> wrote:
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>> I have not proposed anything like that. That was someone else, and I
>> completely disagree with it. I don't want commands in the dash at all. They
>> do not belong there. I lik
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Stefanos A. wrote:
> And a different viewpoint: Win7 doesn't distinguish between 'execute
> command', 'launch application', 'search applications' and 'search files' in
> its Dash equivalent. Instead, it works through the list in that order: if
> the text entered ma
+1
I have very little to add: well thought out and well explained.
I personally would prefer the ring switcher over the application
switcher, but as a default setting the application switcher is
probably less scary :)
Cheers,
Evan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Justyn Butler wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
I believe the worry here is that the user isn't given a choice, it
just happens. There's no privacy agreement, no guarantee that the
songs you search for won't be sold to advertisers, etc. etc.
Canonical has had (to the best of my knowledge) an excellent track
record of not doing anything nasty li
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:40 PM, balint...@gmail.com
wrote:
> In my opinion the current font size is beatuiful on an HD monitor, much
> nicer than how windows or mac looks on such high resolution. But on a
> traditional screen it really is a bit disturbing. For example, on my
> 1024x600 netbook sc
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Matt Richardson <
m.richardson.1...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> I received this a few days ago so hopefully it should be fixed:
>
> - snip -
> * Tags added: udp
>
> ** Changed in: ayatana-design
>Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed
>
>
> This means only tha
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> Hi folks
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> 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,
>
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas
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> 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,
>
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Workspaces
> --
>
> The purpose of workspaces is having a means of organizing windows in sets
> and making it simple and fast to switch between them. Making one set visible
> means hiding all others (except when going into an
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, staticd
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> Jo-Erlend:
>>
>> If you spend three hours a day using your computer, then you will have
>> spent 10.920 hours during the next ten years. Is it more important that a
>> user can use the system without learning anything, or is it more important
>> t
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Matt Richardson
wrote:
> Recently Ian Santopietro made some mockups for how Unity might look on a
> phone or a desktop.
> I love the way his phone indicators look and the amount of information they
> show and I think we should migrate them to the desktop. I have do
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Evan Huus wrote on 20/10/11 17:50:
>> ...
>>
>> One thing that I would like it to support is mounting partitions.
>> I have my music on a separate internal NTFS partition so that it
>> can be access
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On 02/12/2011 19:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> True. But it could appear only when someone starts a conversation,
>> rather than every time they say something.
>
> That only makes it slightly better. It's still just as disruptive at the
>
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Christian Rupp wrote:
> Am 03.12.2011 16:43, schrieb Evan Huus:
>> [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171647/notifications_as_speech_bubbles.png
> Good idea, but I would move the bubble closer to the panel the distance
> is silly
I know (I made it by taki
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> Evan Huus wrote on 03/12/11 15:43:
>> ...
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>> Currently when an event occurs (for example, someone says something
>> in a minimized empathy c
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