It sounds like this is putting the horse before the bit -- there is still a
lot of turmoil out there regarding NotifyOSD's positioning. The "Work for
Lucid" section *should* say something more like
" Positioning: Determine the driving requirements for notification bubble
positioning and separate t
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Brett Cornwall wrote:
>
> Well, let me save you from some grief: I can promise you, without a doubt,
> that the middle of the screen will not fly for anyone. :).
>
> I know this argument can be said for anything, but I strongly feel that
> this is an item that shoul
I don't think that mac_v is proposing /automated/ updates, so much as he is
proposing that the current update scheme should not require the
administrator's password. The administrator would still be notified of new
updates as they are now, and they would have to decide when to download and
install
dates.
-S
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:31:37 -0500 "Scott E. Armitage"
> wrote:
> >I don't think that mac_v is proposing /automated/ updates, so much as he
> is
> >proposing that the current update scheme
I think the description of what shutting down does (e.g. "all applications
will be closed") belongs in the tooltip for the shut down command. The
dialog itself is not the place for that information -- it should show only
what you need to know, that is 1) you have an option to cancel the shut
down,
>
> I can sit here and say I don't like the changes, but it's irrelevant.
> It's an opinion. What is needed are facts and a cost/benefit analysis.
> I think the cost is pretty clear at this point.
Precisely.. and yet for all the people in this thread and others that have
been requesting it, the
One comment off the bat:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Akshay Gupta wrote:
> 2.) A close button on the corner of the bubble as soon as a mouseover
> occurs (like Growl, instead of disappearing away)
>
This interferes with the idea of notifications being ethereal -- as it
stands, if I want t
I couldn't agree more; the notification system introduced with NotifyOSD is,
on the whole, awesome, and I couldn't imagine going back to stupid little
balloon tips tat pop up with a distracting noise and demand to be shooed
away.
-S
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Mike Rooney wrote:
> On Mon,
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Put me in the camp of liking the new button location. In fact the whole
> Ambiance theme is the first default Ubuntu desktop theme I haven't felt
> compelled to customize (well, except for the Terminal background!). It
> looks
> stunning an
I think a better solution would be for the "Search" button in the upper menu
to default to searching within your current location. Isn't that already the
default behaviour? I see no value in adding a Search option to the context
menu -- the context menu should be offering quick access to file infor
I think that relying on mouse cursors as notifications is a scary idea. With
the advent of new input methods (and old ones becoming more popular) such as
touch-screens, the role of the mouse cursor does not have a 100% rock-solid
future. Why put the effort into something that may not be there five
2010/5/4 Alex Launi
> These were certainly helpful. I think you've nailed a lot of the sound
> related use cases.
> I think the take home message of this is that there are two distinct types
> of sound streams. I'm going to use the analogy we've been using in
> notifications- Synchronous and Asyn
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Alex Launi wrote:
> We pretty much already do all of this in Docky. Docky + panel mode is
> basically the win7 jump list jawn.
>
Sure, there are a lot of implementations of similar ideas, all with slightly
different ideas of what they should be, and all with vastl
I am also strongly against this. As Conscious User points out, hyperlinks,
launchers, and menu items are buttons that I press in order to do some
action, whereas icons represent files or folders, i.e. "physical" objects.
They are inherently different things. The last thing I want is for an
accident
Very well-worded point, Thorsten. This expresses in clean, concise words
(and with references!) my general feelings on the subject.
Thanks,
-Scott
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 11:37 +0200, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
>
> > That is exactly why
I think this is an excellent idea, and not just for UI-locking apps. For
example, let's say you have Chrome running and it is in the process of
downloading a file. Although the Chrome UI is not blocked by the download,
you could still show this progress in the task bar.
If memory serves, Windows 7
I like them in general, but I have some reservations.
1. They still seem pretty big (i.e. not very "tight", as Mark put it). I
already find many of the controls on those screenshots to be quite large,
and everything starts adding up to eat up our screen space.
2. Do we need them to be
nks Dani, beautiful action that speaks louder than words ;)
> Let's hear what it says:
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 22:51, Scott E. Armitage <
> launch...@scott.armitage.name> wrote:
>
>> I like them in general, but I have some reservations.
>>
>>1. They s
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
> If we do it at the Unity level, then it's one-progress-per-app, and I
> agree with your 5, the App should decide which progress to show, or
> amalgamate them into a single one ("you have n things downloading,
> overall you are 54% done
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 27/05/10 21:51, Scott E. Armitage wrote:
>
Could we see some mockups with the status bar displaying outside the window
>> border? I have run into this situation in Chrome on OS X and Windows before
>> under cer
Until you get salmonella and never want to eat cookies ever again..
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:37 PM, David Hamm wrote:
> Nothing wrong with having a little cookie dough before the cookies are
> done.
>
> "combines some wiki and tracker features could replace pain with joy."
>
> __
Agreed. Users that build GPG networks without proper trust controls could
actually /decrease/ their level of security. Having said that, the current
implementation is someone complicated and poorly documented. I have but one
trusted "friend" on my current network, and that took the better part of a
s/someone/somewhat
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Scott E. Armitage <
launch...@scott.armitage.name> wrote:
> Agreed. Users that build GPG networks without proper trust controls could
> actually /decrease/ their level of security. Having said that, the current
> implementa
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead wrote:
> The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use
> some CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates
> while trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me
> every few secon
Something that would be really nice for external drives is the ability to
spin it down, and then back up again for re-mount.. this lets you
effectively turn off the drive from your desktop without having to
physically unplug the external drive.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote
Places, IIRC, but with no facility to power them down.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, David Hamm wrote:
> Aren't plugged in but not mounted devices show in the places list? or
> computer folder?
--
Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate
Space Flight Laboratory
University of Toronto In
I'm not suggesting powering down the entire device (i.e. the controller
chip), but spinning down and "parking" the hard drive. This is supposed to
be supported by all modern hard drives, but is something that I have found
to be hit-and-miss, and wholly unintuitive in all operating systems I have
wo
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco wrote:
> This may not be a good idea from a compatibility point of view. Many
> websites expect sans-serif to mean Arial, serif to mean Times New
> Roman and monospace Courier New. They expect sentences they write to
> be in that font, which has a particular
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Remco wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage
> wrote:
>> Sorry, but if a website wants to use a specific font, then they should
>> specify that font in the stylesheet. The terms sans-serif, serif, and
>> monospace are
allow users to select alternative choices for the generic fonts.
-S
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Scott E. Armitage
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Remco wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage
>> wrote:
>>> Sorry, but if a website wants
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