Re: [Unity-design] HUD testing

2012-02-21 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 22. feb. 2012 03:14, Ted Gould wrote: [snip] what can be done in that timeframe. I appreciate your enthusiasm, and I share it, but we have to walk before we can run :-) It's easier to walk quickly when you have vision though. :) -- Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.ne

Re: [Unity-design] HUD testing

2012-02-21 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 21:48 +, supernova wrote: > I think that this app has a limit: it speeds up the work of a person > that previously has known menus as they are now. > Imagine a child that is born a few ours ago. In 5 years he will use > Ubuntu of course. He will have to insert Schroedinger

Re: [Unity-design] Do you guys consider this a Bug? I do

2012-02-21 Thread nick rundy
Yeah, I checked. I couldn't find one. I searched for sidepane, side pane, save-as, file-save, bunch of other stuff. I couldn't find anything directly on topic. > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:48:13 -0500 > From: mhall...@ubuntu.com > To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Unity-desig

Re: [Unity-design] Do you guys consider this a Bug? I do

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Hall
Have you checked to see if there is an existing bug report for this in upstream Gnome? Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com On 02/21/2012 05:06 PM, Nekhelesh wrote: On 02/21/2012 10:54 PM, nick rundy wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/937971 It is confusing to people when they see

Re: [Unity-design] Do you guys consider this a Bug? I do

2012-02-21 Thread Nekhelesh
On 02/21/2012 10:54 PM, nick rundy wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/937971 It is confusing to people when they see in the Nautilus SidePane how things are categorized by DEVICES, COMPUTER, NETWORK only to be confronted with a lack of the same categorization/demarcation when the

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One

2012-02-21 Thread Callum Saunders
Wow. That is the last time i send email from OSX Mail. The message in it's complete form: 'At an OS level the ability to back up contacts, app settings, login details, wallpaper to the cloud would be of great use. Think Android's built in Back-Up service. It would also mean you would be able to

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One

2012-02-21 Thread Stuart Langridge
(as posted to Andrea's blog, but other people may find it interesting too) Hi, Andrea! This is a great idea. As head of the Ubuntu One application developer programme, I’m happy to give some advice on how this might be done. Here are a few links that you might find useful, for people who have

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One

2012-02-21 Thread Callum Saunders
At an OS level the ability to back up contacts, app settings, login details, wallpaper to the cloud would be of great use. Think Android's built in Back-Up service. It would also mean you would be able to log in to any Ubuntu device using your Ubuntu SSO and have your desktop there waiting for

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One

2012-02-21 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:03 PM, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: > It's a feature that (as far as I know) no other OS has (yet). > Chrome (which may sometimes be an OS) has a feature to synchronize between bookmarks, parameters, and installed plugins. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/chrome-sy

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One

2012-02-21 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
That is certainly a nice idea. You may want to have a look at Oneconf. -- Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Unity-design] Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One

2012-02-21 Thread a.gra...@gmail.com
Hi all, in these days I had an idea we could discuss about and maybe try to implement for Ubuntu 12.10. In few words: my idea is to make the user able to synchronize his desktop settings among multiple computers and storing these shared settings in the Ubuntu One folder. It's a feature that (as fa

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-21 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 21. feb. 2012 14:24, C. Cooke wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52:32PM +0100, supernova wrote: At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to adapt to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. Explain to me how that's not different from the com

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-21 Thread Omar B .
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52:32PM +0100, supernova wrote: > > > At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to > > > adapt > > > to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. > > > Explain > > > to me how that's not different from the computers

Re: [Unity-design] proposal "about this computer"

2012-02-21 Thread Ryan Gauger
On 02/19/2012 04:57 PM, Michel RENON wrote: Hi, Le 13/02/12 11:01, Christian Giordano a écrit : Thanks for sharing your idea Michel! Personally I am not sure that "About this computer..." is used so frequently to deserve to be so easily accessible. And this menu might become very usefull if

Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting

2012-02-21 Thread John Lea
On 21/02/12 09:55, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 21/02/12 08:11, Stefanos Apostolopoulos wrote: A bug was reported ~9 months ago or so, but apparently there were bigger fish to fry first - so the close button is offset by (x,y) = (2,1) pixels making it very hard to click. Oh geez we should def

Re: [Unity-design] new and old in recents DE

2012-02-21 Thread C. Cooke
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:52:32PM +0100, supernova wrote: > > At a very basic level, what the HUD does, is to enable the computer to adapt > > to the human, instead of forcing the human to adapt to the computer. Explain > > to me how that's not different from the computers of the 80s. > +1 > ...

Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting

2012-02-21 Thread Omar B .
The OP was talking about the offset and window misalignment and this has drifted to just the close button and how fitts law lets me close apps with my eyes closed... there are many ways to close an app (quicklist quit, alt+f4, kill, etc.) and a lot of other more ways can be added (like to the

Re: [Unity-design] Applications lens

2012-02-21 Thread Alan Bell
I think the problem is that the applications lens puts the categories in the filters, when they more naturally fit as, um, categories. Unity lenses have categories, I have no idea why the apps lens tosses all the applications together in one place and doesn't just use them to categorise the res

Re: [Unity-design] Applications lens

2012-02-21 Thread Omar B .
yes, that's why i added this to the end of my comment: "Might be different for different type of lenses." >What if I want to list the music I have from the Alternative and blues genres? >The multi select by default makes this very easy. >--Ian Santopietro On Feb 20, 2012 7:48 PM, "Omar B." wr

Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting

2012-02-21 Thread Alan Bell
On 21/02/12 08:11, Stefanos Apostolopoulos wrote: The obvious solution would be to make the close button touch the top and left borders of the screen. This way, you can just throw your mouse up-left and click without aiming, as per Fitt's law. A bug was reported ~9 months ago or so, but appare

Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/02/12 08:11, Stefanos Apostolopoulos wrote: A bug was reported ~9 months ago or so, but apparently there were bigger fish to fry first - so the close button is offset by (x,y) = (2,1) pixels making it very hard to click. Oh geez we should definitely up the priority of that one for Preci

Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting

2012-02-21 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
The obvious solution would be to make the close button touch the top and left borders of the screen. This way, you can just throw your mouse up-left and click without aiming, as per Fitt's law. A bug was reported ~9 months ago or so, but apparently there were bigger fish to fry first - so the clos