On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Luke Benstead wrote:
>
> It's because of this shortage of space that I believe "minimize to
> tray" exists. Minimize to tray is essentially "I don't need this
> window cluttering up my taskbar, but I need to leave it running" and
> the only reason I can think that
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Gavin Langdon wrote:
> I don't think a standard shouldn't be adopted just because of the chance
> that an application won't use it properly.
>
I agree with you. I mostly mean that the form of the standard may need to be
assertive in some areas, for example as the
I had an operation running on an open document today. During the operation,
further use of the application is not possible:
http://images.jarlath.multiply.com/image/1/photos/17/600x600/1/progress.png?et=pMgx3nnyrF6eyBHZJlGqXw&nmid=339355362
So I minimized the application to get on with something
When I'm teaching people how to use computers - I tell them to think of the
right button as the 'menu button' (the word *context* is off-putting to
many).
This drastically improves their ability to interact with the desktop and
predict what behaviour is expected of them. It makes sense to them and
Aesthetically speaking, I can only imagine the logo looking respectable in a
corner. Or at least, I'm having a hard time imagining it anywhere else and
look credible. I think it's fine as it is, but it's an interesting idea.
The systems mentioned ( Mac and Windows ), they are positioned in the mos
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:10 PM, David Hamm wrote:
> http://i.imgur.com/0bC6I.jpg
>
> This is what I imagine purgatory to be. A vortex of eternal clicking.
Personally, I abhorr scrollbars and tabs in a menu - especially one accessed
as frequently as a launcher. I think it will be a real challeng
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:18 AM, David Hamm wrote:
> I'll match your quote, "This is what I imagine purgatory to be. A vortex of
> eternal clicking."
>
> with a quote, "imo, id have just applications and recent with a side arrow
> to expand either, knocking out the places when expanded."
>
Expan
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Luke Benstead wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's this week's bug bear of mine:
> http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6311/as7ob3.png
>
> ...
> 2. happens. And 90% of the time, a killall gnome-panel gets it working
> again. Surely Gnome panel should attempt to reload it a
After using Unity for the last week or so, the cleanliness and focus of the
desktop makes an eyesore of anything unnecessary or out of place.
Subjective, I know - but in the screenshot below, should the window bar not
be textless?
Natty.desktop
Description: application/desktop
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Ian Santopietro wrote:
> > I do agree somewhat, though it is useful for finding the identity of
> > non-focused windows.
>
Good point, I hadn't thought of that.
> >
> > On Mar 13, 2011 10:35 PM, "Jarlath Reidy"
> > wrote:
> > > After u
To quote myself on the forums here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1783813
"I want to search for a file and I don't know which of my hard disks it is
on.
So in Nautilus, I choose the 'Computer' icon from the toolbar and search
from there. But it seem that from this view you can only sea
Hi Frederik,
Ayatana doesn't have this problem, we are equipped with semantic search in
> the Dash, that solves it for us.
This only finds files I have already used - so it is not really a search of
any part of the filesystem, only my recently used files.
By the way, you ought to try Nautilus
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