Re: fast-user-switch-applet

2009-03-06 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > quote from the blog: > "A couple of people have said that the menu looks “sparse” or “bare” > but I think it sets the right direction and we’ll be continuing with > this approach as we touch other parts of the system." > > OMG: he wants to remove icons from everywere > >

Re: fast-user-switch-applet

2009-03-06 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Martin Soto wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:29 +0000, Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > >> Nicolò Chieffo wrote: >> >>> quote from the blog: >>> "A couple of people have said that the menu looks “sparse” or “bare” >>> > ... > >

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-07 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > I totally agree that it's confusing > > Is it confusing just because it's different to what you've been used to? I know it's not a justification, but OSX have been using exactly the same metaphor for many years now and it seems to be working out very well. There was a s

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-07 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Nicolò Chieffo wrote: >> I appreciate critical voices, but please be constructive. One thing I'm sure >> of is that we will not bring back the old icon. :) >> Any suggestions as to how to improve the current situation are more than >> welcome! >> > > Ok, I will be constructive: we need to find

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-07 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Max Bowsher wrote: > Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > >> Nicolò Chieffo wrote: >> >>> I totally agree that it's confusing >>> >>> >>> >> Is it confusing just because it's different to what you've been used

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-07 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Alexander Sack wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:17:32AM +0000, Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > >> Nicolò Chieffo wrote: >> >>> I totally agree that it's confusing >>> >>> >>> >> Is it confusing just because

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Matthew e a todos. > > On Thursday 12 March 2009 09:54:05 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >> The Design team has just discussed this and we agree it's confusing. The >> two-monitors icon sucked, but our first try at a replacement wasn't so >> hot. :-) We will hav

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mat Tomaszewski wrote on 07/03/09 13:17: > >> Nicolò Chieffo wrote: >> >>> I totally agree that it's confusing >>> >> Is it confusing just becau

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Martin Pitt wrote: > Mat Tomaszewski [2009-03-16 10:02 +]: > >> OS X shows "0 signal" icon for both no signal and disconnected. Not sure >> what I've missed? >> > > Even if that is really so, I really don't think that we ought to

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Martin Soto wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:24 +, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > ... > >> On Monday 16 March 2009 10:58:55 Mat Tomaszewski wrote: >> > ... > >>> The request to change the icon came originally from various OEMs we >>> c

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Mat e a todos. > > On Monday 16 March 2009 10:58:55 Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > >> That's an interesting feedback, thanks. However, I would not treat Linux >> Class students as representative for the population of a

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-16 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:45:59 +0000 Mat Tomaszewski > wrote: > >> I hope by saying *we* you mean *you*, or maybe other community members >> have already chosen their representative to speak for them? :) >> >> > > Even with t

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-17 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mat Tomaszewski wrote on 16/03/09 10:02: > >> Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> ... >> >>> and it's not what OS X does. >>> >> OS X shows &q

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-17 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Martin Pitt wrote: > Matthew Paul Thomas [2009-03-16 17:26 +]: > >> For Ubuntu it's a bit tricker, because we want to distinguish between >> (1) no connection with wireless off, (2) no connection with wireless on, >> (3) connected with wireless (at various signal strengths), and (4) >> conne

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-17 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: >> The challenge that we're facing is: >> >> - we have at least 3 types of network connections that should be >> represented by the appropriate icon: >> 1. Wireless >> 2. Wired >> 3. 3G >> >> > > Throw general modem connection in a bowl, because it would be needed > fo

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-17 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Andrew Barbaccia wrote: > > The challenge that we're facing is: > > - we have at least 3 types of network connections that should be > represented by the appropriate icon: > 1. Wireless > 2. Wired > 3. 3G > > Each of these has potentially 4 different states: > > - ca

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-17 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Mat e a todos. > > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:31:59 Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > >> - why not show separate icons for all connection types in the panel? >> > > because gnome, kde, freedesktop all want to reduce the number of st

Re: Reason for removing animation from Gnome login?

2009-03-30 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 22:25 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: > > >> I saw Scott removing animation from gnome login. What's the reason for >> that? I don't see any motivation or reference to a bugreport. >> >> > There's a reference to an upstream bug report in the pa

Re: The new logout design can cause unwanted reboots

2009-04-01 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Hi all, > > I recall that ctrl+alt+backspace was disabled because it can be hit > accidentally. A similar thing happened to me; I experienced an unwanted > reboot and it's not so pleasant, even if I didn't loose any work. > > ... > > Vincenzo > > > This is a very valid

Re: Whatever happened to...

2009-06-10 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Evan wrote: > In the Intrepid cycle, there was something going on where it would add > a "last good boot" option to grub instead of all the old kernels in > order to keep the list cleaner and shorter. It was dropped quite close > to release because of some unfixed bugs, and seems to have > disa

Few notes on filing "papercut" bugs

2009-06-12 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Hi, During the recent UDS we launched a "100 Paper Cuts" project (https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts), aiming to target and fix small but significant design and usability bugs in Ubuntu. We set an arbitrary target of 100 to be fixed for Karmic release. The response so far has been ove

Hunred Paper Cuts for Karmic - thanks for all submissions, let's now fix them!

2009-06-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
As previously mentioned by David Siegel, we have created the list of 100 small usability bugs that should be fixed for Karmic: https://edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/karmic We have split them into milestones that help organize the process and assign responsibilities. We've had over 1000 b

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Conrad Knauer wrote: > >> All documentation is useless to beginners >> > > ??? And have you visited the forums? > > So this is actually the only good and valid point in this, otherwise exaggerated, rant. I'm currently reviewing the download process on Ubuntu.com and been looking into v

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-27 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > > > You're right, I wouldn't expect my mom to be able to RTFM and figure > out how to, say, recover a corrupt grub installation or set up LVM. > Similarly, I wouldn't expect her to be able to recover a corrupted > registry on a Windows box without a lot of help. I agre

Re: A mistake in Ubuntu Feature Tour web page

2009-11-03 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
On 03/11/2009 13:14, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > The page http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features > mentions > > > "Create professional documents, spreadsheets and presentations with > OpenOffice.org 3.0". > > > However the included OpenOffice.org version is 3.1.1. Where should I > repo

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-26 Thread Mat Tomaszewski
On 25/01/2010 18:02, Vishnoo wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:03 +0200, Amahdy wrote: > >> Here is the middle of thing, have the splash splitted out into two >> parts, the upper is the graphical splash and the lower part is the >> traditional text-boot with [green(OK)] or [red(fail)] >> Even m