Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-26 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi Andy On 26 December 2011 14:26, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:50:03PM +, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > I do actually get a flashing icon in the panel on my Desktop PC when I > have > > messages. It is the empathy icon (a sort of green square voice bubble) > > that altern

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-26 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:50:03PM +, Tony Pursell wrote: > I do actually get a flashing icon in the panel on my Desktop PC when I have > messages. It is the empathy icon (a sort of green square voice bubble) > that alternates with a sort of alert symbol. To me it is a bit irritating > as I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-24 Thread Liam Proven
On 20 December 2011 20:01, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:47:52PM +, Liam Proven wrote: > >> I'm puzzled. Unity does this already. The notifications are >> translucent boxes at top right of the screen. The daemon is called >> ayatana-notify, IIRC. > > But they are non-inter

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-21 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi Matt On 21 December 2011 08:22, Matthew Daubney wrote: > On 21 December 2011 00:09, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > Liam Proven wrote: > > > >> > The main think I like is the notification system. When logged in > >> > with Empathy, if I receive a message a small notification appears > >> > at the b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-21 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 21 December 2011 00:09, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Liam Proven wrote: > >> > The main think I like is the notification system. When logged in >> > with Empathy, if I receive a message a small notification appears >> > at the bottom of the screen with the message, which I can then >> > click to repl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-20 Thread Avi Greenbury
Liam Proven wrote: > > The main think I like is the notification system. When logged in > > with Empathy, if I receive a message a small notification appears > > at the bottom of the screen with the message, which I can then > > click to reply straight away or ignore and allow it to disappear > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-20 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:47:52PM +, Liam Proven wrote: > I'm puzzled. Unity does this already. The notifications are > translucent boxes at top right of the screen. The daemon is called > ayatana-notify, IIRC. But they are non-interactible (by design). So you cannot click them to get to th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-20 Thread Liam Proven
On 19 December 2011 17:23, Joe Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using Ubuntu for a few years now, since Karmic, on several > computers. These days I mainly use Ubuntu (Oneiric 11.10) on my desktop and > Xubuntu (Oneiric 11.10) on my netbook. > Recently, though, I've been experimenting with Gno

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-19 Thread paul sutton
On 19/12/11 17:23, Joe Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using Ubuntu for a few years now, since Karmic, on several > computers. These days I mainly use Ubuntu (Oneiric 11.10) on my desktop and > Xubuntu (Oneiric 11.10) on my netbook. > Recently, though, I've been experimenting with Gnome-Shell

[ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-19 Thread Joe Smith
Hi all, I've been using Ubuntu for a few years now, since Karmic, on several computers. These days I mainly use Ubuntu (Oneiric 11.10) on my desktop and Xubuntu (Oneiric 11.10) on my netbook. Recently, though, I've been experimenting with Gnome-Shell on Fedora and, although I still prefer Ubuntu,