[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-11-07 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Four years have passed and we still have no permanent menus and most of the issues posed by this bug remain acknowledged but unsolved. I can't quite get what the process is, but it just isn't working. Are these issues being looked at in Unity 8 at least? -- You received this bug notification bec

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-08-08 Thread TomasHnyk
Marco: that would be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana- design/+bug/955193 - right? It is a duplicate of this one but has some design to it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-08-08 Thread Treviño
@Aleve: This bug was actually fixed by the Locally Integrated Menus release, but as for the option to make the menus always visible is something that we're going to fix ASAP. By the way, since I think that it's a different bug, then I prefer to close this and moving to another clean bug for the v

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-08-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
May I ask what fix was released, Marco, and what's exactly the nature of the fix? Has it been fixed for the current Ubuntu version (14.04.1) or is it fixed for an upcoming one? If it's the latter, which one: 14.10 or/and 14.04.2? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of D

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-08-06 Thread Treviño
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Improve Unity Global Men

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-07-10 Thread Stephen M. Webb
> Does this mean this will never be fixed? No, the milestone target for the upstream Compiz project was removed because this task does not affect the upstream Compiz project, it's purely a Unity thing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscr

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-07-10 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2014-07-10 21:59 GMT+02:00 Stephen M. Webb : > ** Changed in: compiz > Milestone: 0.9.11.0 => None > Does this mean this will never be fixed? We're still waiting for the option to keep the menus permanently visible... I have a few Ubuntu installations (a lawyers office in particular) where u

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-07-10 Thread Stephen M. Webb
** Changed in: compiz Milestone: 0.9.11.0 => None -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Improve Unity Global Menu Status in Ay

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-05-07 Thread Alexandre
I also can't find any dconf (gsettings) setting to make the menu permanently visible in Ubuntu 14.04. How to do that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-18 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
I can't find any dconf (gsettings) setting to make the menu permanently visible in Ubuntu 14.04 (Unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140416) :( Marco Trevisan, it seems you forgot to add dconf setting to make the menu permanently visible, right? Aleve Sicofante (sicofante) wrote on 2014-04-02: > Here's my propo

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-18 Thread Mantas Kriaučiūnas
** Changed in: baltix Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: baltix Assignee: (unassigned) => Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages htt

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-06 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2014-04-03 3:55 GMT+02:00 Stephen M. Webb : > Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.2.0. > > ** Changed in: unity >Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released > > This is simply not true. Only half of the problem has been solved. The visibility issue has been ignored by the design team so far. I don't k

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.2.0. ** Changed in: unity Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-01 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I proposed exactly that to Marcon Trevisan and he asked me to look for John Lea on IRC. I confess I haven't had the time (I've never used IRC before and haven't even learned how to). Here's my proposal: http://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/ubuntu- introducing-locally-integrated-menus-to- unity-

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-04-01 Thread Morais
Hi! Will the "Visibility: Hidden/Always displayed" option be added to the "System Settings/Appearance", in Ubuntu 14.04? Or is it too late? Would something like the screenshot in the attachment be possible for unmaximized windows? Thanks. ** Attachment added: "Ubuntu.png" https://bugs.launchp

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-21 Thread Aleve Sicofante
May I suggest we take a look at the description of the bug? At the end it says: The following options will be added to 'System Settings/Appearance': --- Menus Location: Global/Local Visibility: Hidden/Always displayed --- Location has been masterfully solved by Trevilño. The second one i

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread Treviño
** Branch unlinked: lp:~3v1n0/unity/lim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Improve Unity Global Menu Status in Ayatana Design:

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread TomasHnyk
Is not it this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/locally-integrated- menus-ubuntu-14-04?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=locally- integrated-menus-ubuntu-14-04&utm_reader=feedly -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Nice, but the menus keep vanishing. This doesn't really solve one of the most controversial issues. There must be a way to have the menus permanently visible. Many (myself included) would rather have the window title vanishing, making it visible when hovering over windows buttons or the empty area

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread Phillip Susi
Marco, the branch you linked appears to be two years old and was rejected, so how does that make this Fix Committed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread Adolfo Jayme
** No longer affects: metacity (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: compiz (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Improve Unity

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-02-20 Thread Treviño
** Changed in: unity Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed ** Changed in: unity Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) ** Changed in: unity Milestone: None => 7.2.0 ** Changed in: compiz Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Branch linked: lp:~3v1n0/unity/lim-hid

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2014-01-06 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscript

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-29 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-pac

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-08 Thread Doug McMahon
14.04 users can now, if desired, disable global menus on a per app basis in dconf. Should work for most common apps excluding nautilus, firefox/thunderbird & any qt4 apps like vlc, smplayer, ect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/12/8 David Wolfe > All to save what? 24 pixels of vertical space? Ludicrous. Actually the global menu per se is not the issue here. Almost every commenter likes it; just not the way it behaves _exclusively_ (not "by default", since there are barely any options). So I would rephrase to say

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-08 Thread David Wolfe
Some here seem to have a conceptual misunderstanding about human interface design. Technology and design improvements should increasingly conform the computer to the human, not the other way around. Confoundingly, not all humans work the same way. Regardless of which side of the debate you take, th

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-08 Thread Mateusz Stachowski
@Ryan Koesters: I've build today Unity and unity-control-center with your patches on Ubuntu 14.04 both worked without problems. I had to manually specify the files to patch unity-control-center because I probably used wrong -p option: patch -p1 < To install the packages I had to remove gnome-cont

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Ryan Koesters
@Aleve Sicofante: As far as I can tell, you will have to apply the patch every time. @TomasHnyk: The patch doesn't show the title for maximized windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions:

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
** Also affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Im

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/12/4 Ryan Koesters > @Aleve Sicofante: Can you explain what you mean by resist updates? > > I mean, will we have to apply the patch after each update? Sometimes updates overwrite patched versions of Unity. I'm asking if this patch suffers from the same or is it independent from ordinary syst

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread TomasHnyk
Thanks Ryan, if you could also implement a toggle to use global menu with maximized applications only, that would be great! BTW: does the patch in its current form ever display window's title for maximalized windows? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages,

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Ryan Koesters
@Aleve Sicofante: Can you explain what you mean by resist updates? I attached the patch for the newly forked unity-control-center that adds the option to enable or disable "com.canonical.Unity.Panel.menubar- always-visible". ** Patch added: "Add option in appearance panel to enable or disable al

Re: [Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Will this patch "resist" updates? 2013/12/4 Ryan Koesters > @Mateusz Stachowski: I am currently working on a patch to do that for > unity-control-center. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 > > Titl

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Ryan Koesters
@Mateusz Stachowski: I am currently working on a patch to do that for unity-control-center. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: I

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Mateusz Stachowski
The patch provided by Ryan Koesters works when applied to Unity in 13.10. I've build Unity and then I had a new GSettings option. When I checked that menubar-always-visible the global menu became visible all the time for all programs. This should be available in 14.04 LTS for the people that don'

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-10-27 Thread Ingo Gerth
Unity 8 will not land before 14.10, at the earliest. Since they are not going to add new features to Unity in 14.04, do not expect to see this for years around. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscrip

[Dx-packages] [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-10-26 Thread Alexandre
Some news on this feature? It is my last major feature I want to see in Unity. Any plan to have it in 14.04 with Unity 8, it should be great ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages