Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Dylan McCall
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Gregory Merchan wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Ian Santopietro wrote: > > What about moving the sort functionality to a menu? Then, it can be easily > > accessed through HUD, preserving easy access fit who use the functionality > > who use it, while

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Gregory Merchan
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Ian Santopietro wrote: > What about moving the sort functionality to a menu? Then, it can be easily > accessed through HUD, preserving easy access fit who use the functionality > who use it, while decluttering the UI and keeping a simple appearance for > beginners

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Ian Santopietro
What about moving the sort functionality to a menu? Then, it can be easily accessed through HUD, preserving easy access fit who use the functionality who use it, while decluttering the UI and keeping a simple appearance for beginners. On Dec 11, 2012 7:28 PM, "Gregory Merchan" wrote: > I'm comple

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Gregory Merchan
I'm completely at a loss as to what buttons are being discussed. The only chrome I have in my folder views is the column headers in the list view, but even when I turn on all the junk^W tool bars and such, I don't see any button for sorting. I do see two little chevrons pointing left and right tha

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Florian Diesch
Am Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:55:40 +0100 schrieb Thibaut Brandscheid : > Yes, we need the sort functionality, but do we need this > one-click-buttons in the "front UI"? > If you would have to go to the settings, or would have to right click > to unlock and make the Sort-By buttons visible and editable,

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Mathieu Beliveau
I believe what I'm about to say have been said more than a thousand times before, but still, I feel like adding some weight. Rather than adress this "remove sort button" proposal (considering it is not a troll); I'd like make a stance against this reductionist mentality. The more a software can do,

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
> As well as being simple for a basic user facilities that more > sophisticated users need must be provided. Next you will be > suggesting removing split screen and tree view from Nautilus. No-one > would ever suggest that. > The split view is not a feature in the main UI window of nautilus causi

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 December 2012 20:55, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Josh Strawbridge > wrote: >> >> just because an application ships with ubuntu doesn't mean that ubuntu has >> anything to do with actually working on the program. > > I'm aware about that. The reason why I po

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Josh Strawbridge < holyknightjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > just because an application ships with ubuntu doesn't mean that ubuntu has > anything to do with actually working on the program. I'm aware about that. The reason why I post it here is because I think it's an

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Gabriel Pettier
I would hate this too, even if you seldomly use it, doesn't need you won't find it infuriating that it went away when you'll actually need it. I'm pretty sure people would hate to have them removed. Le 11/12/2012 21:10, Josh Strawbridge a écrit : just because an application ships with ubuntu do

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Josh Strawbridge
just because an application ships with ubuntu doesn't mean that ubuntu has anything to do with actually working on the program. you're probably better off sending this to the developers of each application. personally, i'm against the idea. it is true that i rarely use them and do ignore them for

[Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
I would like to suggest the removal of all Sort-By buttons in all applications shipped with Ubuntu. The reasons: - they can break the UX in an app for an average user completely - they are rarely used - we don't need them Instead make a default how content should be sorted in Ubuntu and stick to

[Unity-design] Design communication

2012-12-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petko wrote on 05/12/12 10:26: > ... > > Not related : Something I just need to state ,as your common new > contributor (bugs ,mails, ideas , soon an app) - the discussion > system feels so useless . I just want to type it with big letters > or ,idk,

Re: [Unity-design] Efficiency of launching apps in Elementary, Gnome Shell, and Unity

2012-12-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 05/12/12 09:57: > > Thanks for initiating the thread, MPT. > > On 30/11/12 10:42, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote: >> >> I still don't quite get the usefulness of listing non-installed >> applications before the user starts