Trying out Saucy today I noticed the weather results in the dash. Hey
awesome, it is going to be 32 degrees tomorrow! Um no, it is going to be
32 degrees in Termoli, Italy. That is because I was in progress of
launching the terminal application when I noticed it. I tried again
searching for "we
So after a general flamefest about the amazon lens we ended up with a
privacy flag for lenses, where the user can request that they don't get
results from the internet. Right now, writing a lens to the spec, it
won't respect the privacy flag at all, however it is possible to query
the status of
On 05/12/12 10:26, Petko wrote:
I want to throw in my idea about integrating the old GNOME2-like
(apparently I don't know exactly how it's called) menu . At the moment
there's a related discussion about the dash , so I thought it's the
right time to post the thread.
TL;DR : right click on t
On 11/11/12 23:36, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
Hi
I think it would be great if it was possible to set the default lens,
the lens that is shown when pressing SUPER, in system settings to
another lens.
This way the Dash experience could be more personalized. Some users
might use the Dash mostl
On 02/11/12 23:30, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
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Looking at this picture(s) I wonder if EOG can display that kind of
images too. I guess that we will see ^^ them in future a lot.
why will we see them a lot? Is there some new way of producing them or
so
On 28/10/12 16:03, Alex Launi wrote:
weba...@lists.launchpad.net
that would appear to be owned by a restricted team
(https://launchpad.net/~webapps which isn't joinable)
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In my previous mail I stated that we don't have a style guide, this is
plainly incorrect as we do have http://design.ubuntu.com featuring lots
of information on style for communication pieces and web based stuff.
Looking through it though I can't see that it is a style I would want to
apply to
Hi all,
I have been doing a bit of tinkering with the webapps system, I want to
get Ubuntu desktop integration into a bunch of open source business
applications (things you install locally rather than hosted services)
like OpenERP, vtiger, OwnCloud, Alfresco, Redmine, OSticket, elgg etc.
etc.
tar.gz and extract the files anywhere you like.
2) Set the ambiance-chameleon script to run at startup.
3) Log out and back in.
4) Change your wallpaper or re-select the current one
Hope this helps. I use it with 66% panel opacity.
Matt
On 04/10/12 21:59, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
the launcher and
Hi all,
the launcher and dash and HUD are all very pretty and pick out colours
from the wallpaper (with a terrible algorithm that shouldn't work as
well as it does but that is another story), if you turn the panel
transparency down to 0.01 you get a similar effect in the panel (turning
it to z
On 22/06/12 12:24, Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga wrote:
Hello Ayatana.
First of all, I know it wasn't your decision to remove this Nautilus
shortcut ("F3"), it is Gnome.
This shortcut was a great one for me, and I think I'm not alone. the
Ubuntu dev should bring it back, please. I don't know what G
On 13/06/12 16:49, Christian Giordano wrote:
Choosing the best tool for mocking up designs is not easy.
#1 it must be Free Software or I can't share my designs with you without
making you pay to join in.
#2 not really bothered about any other considerations.
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There is a great tool called pencil which is a XUL application and runs
as a firefox extension. If someone can help get it packaged as a
standalone application that would be great, there were problems with it
when xulrunner was dropped and I don't know how to get it to run
standalone against th
On 12/06/12 21:38, Callum Saunders wrote:
Is scaling everything down really the best way to handle the interface?
that screenshot is what it would look like if nothing was done (i.e.
what it would look like if you put 12.04 on a retina macbook today), I
made it as an illustration of the issue,
for reference, it would look like this
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/screenshots/unityretina.png
(scaled down by a factor of 4)
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At 204 DPI the unity launcher will be by default 48/204 inches, or 6mm
wide (tweakable to sizes between 4mm and 8mm). The top panel would be
3mm high. Do we have a design plan for dealing with the challenges that
high resolution displays might present?
As luck would have it, making the Unity b
On 03/06/12 19:30, Ryan Gauger wrote:
Isn’t there a better way to deal with this?
yes, by changing the way the top panel shadow works altogether.
I think the bugs could probably be fixed semi-easily by someone who
knows how to (I don’t know how to fix bugs).
having looked at the code and with a
On 03/06/12 09:08, shane lee wrote:
I find when I use Unity 2D with composite enabled, that lack of panel
shadow looks really odd when windows have shadows.
It also makes the desktop look so... flat.
I agree bugs are a problem and it needs looking at but maybe a better
way to draw the shadow?
V
I would like to propose removal of the 'shadow' cast by the unity top panel.
This shadow causes the following bugs
#956863 Top panel shadow is drawn above presentation when using LO
Impress with Presenter Console
#763579 Panel drop shadow causes issues for screencasting apps
#871758 Top Bar, w
I believe the current chameleonic algorithm is a bit broken. I was
trying to trace what it actually does, it looks at the 4 corners of the
screen and the center spot, then if there is much of a difference it
recursively does this for each quadrant in turn until the points are
roughly even in co
On 19/05/12 15:26, Omar B. wrote:
I believe ubuntu dev Alan Bell
gosh, am I one of them?
has already created what you are asking for:
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/03/dynamic-window-quicklist-for-unity.html
yeah, might be a bit broken in places, please feel free to fix it
i hope it comes
On 04/05/12 16:39, Nadine Ledwig wrote:
Hello,
I'm highly sight impaired, and the last two years, I was used to use
ubuntu 10.4 with orca and the compiz plugins eZoom-Desktop and
negativeplugin.
Now, i installed ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop and I've some problems.
In unity-2d, dash and loun
On 02/05/12 18:18, Ryan Gauger wrote:
Why is the final conclusion no? Why do people on this team hate the idea of adding the
feature back in while the world (public) loves the idea of re-implementing this feature?
I keep bringing this up because it continues to be dropped, while the public trie
On 24/04/12 14:57, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone of the
http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-app-devel mailinglist. (I'm CCing it).
I don't think logging in and that type of stuff should be done in
lenses at all. I'd present the user with a normal dialog if t
Most of the lenses I want to write are for local applications that
require authentication. So I might want a lens for OpenERP, for
Alfresco, for vTiger CRM, for a local bugzilla, or even for proprietary
stuff, like a SAP lens or a Peoplesoft lens. I don't know how to ask the
user for credential
how about having two (or more) application lenses? This isn't as silly
as I first thought it was because only one of them has to implement the
globalsearch function and populate results on the home lens of the dash.
There could be the standard one with the recent stuff and adverts from
software
I have just seen a broadly positive article about 12.04
http://lunduke.com/?p=2813
but it picks up on the really odd setup of the applications lens. Why on
earth do we use the categories as filters and not as categories?
It just makes much more sense, it looks better it makes applications
more
On 17/04/12 22:50, Alan Bell wrote:
it also matters whether the animation frames are synced to the
vertical blanking timings. One thing you can do to make quite a few
compiz related things smoother is to turn the mouse position polling
down to 1 (or anything less than about 15) this will mean
it also matters whether the animation frames are synced to the vertical
blanking timings. One thing you can do to make quite a few compiz
related things smoother is to turn the mouse position polling down to 1
(or anything less than about 15) this will mean that panning around a
zoomed desktop
You can help make things better if you want to. Searching for someone
responsible that you can complain to isn't going to be a productive use
of your time. I know accessibility on Ubuntu is weak, both in terms of
its delivered experience and the process issues that mean things are
designed visu
On 06/04/12 11:56, Alan Bell wrote:
I filed a bug and added a patch to it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/975029
do I need to do anything else or have I done my bit now?
Alan.
feedback on this is that the bindings were removed intentionally because
some
On 15/04/12 03:55, Michael Hall wrote:
Alt is already strongly associated with accessing a window's menus, it
makes sense as the activation key for HUD (except for emacs users,
evidently) Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com
I changed my HUD key to alt+super because if you are in a full screen
vir
On 10/04/12 19:55, Pavol Klačanský wrote:
Hi,
I just wonder if unity 2d will become main unity and compiz will be
dropped. (I prefer this)
I guess this might be a UDS discussion topic. I think dropping the
hardware accelerated desktop would be a very strange thing to do, unless
it makes more
I filed a bug and added a patch to it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-plugins-main/+bug/975029
do I need to do anything else or have I done my bit now?
Alan.
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Caps lock is an interesting choice of key, it is used as the Orca
modifier key when Orca is in laptop mode (when it thinks you have a
keyboard without separate keypad) so I wouldn't want to see the caps
lock key set as the default without the interaction with Orca being
carefully tested. That s
there is a cut down route through ubiquity if you do the
oem-config-prepare sequence. It asks you for your name and timezone and
stuff, not sure there is a slideshow, but that is the place to put it.
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On 25/03/12 19:06, Omar B. wrote:
from an user study some time ago about ubuntu's showstoppers:
http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/when-new-users-first-encounter-ubuntu-5-show-stoppers/
/3. Use of jargon/
/
/
/During their exploration of Ubuntu, participants encountered words
they didn't know
F12 is the firebug shortcut, having that turn my screen off would be . .
. sub-optimal.
I think function key bindings should be application specific. It isn't a
nice area to play with, just look at the complete and utter mess caused
by grabbing the Alt key for the HUD. I have a feeling that tryi
We now ship compiz enhanced zoom enabled, but with no keyboard or mouse
bindings. I think this is possibly the single best feature that the
Ubuntu desktop has over other operating systems so I would like to make
it easier to use for more people.
Right now I use super+button4 to zoom in and sup
On 16/03/12 02:23, Luke Yelavich wrote:
Hi all,
With all the discussion recently about the hud, and how its not accessible,
I've been looking at the hud code for Unity 2D, investigating why its not
accessible. It turns out that the Unity 2D devs did indeed do their part in
making sure the hud
So right now we have a broken dash, HUD, indicators, launcher, global
menu and lightdm, I took a few videos and filed a few bugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJRwpcJBa8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFVpVN21MbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHj1tLd2IQ
Lightdm doesn't work
https://bugs.la
On 06/03/12 14:47, Nolan Darilek wrote:
Wait, you mean there's *this much breakage* in a *beta*?
yes. There are expected to be broken things in a beta, but I do agree
that if the with-eyes experience was as bad as it is eyes-free right now
then it probably wouldn't go out of the door.
On the
totally agree, and sharing this with the unity-design list so more
people can see it. 12.04 had been pretty decent compared to other
development cycles up to a few weeks ago, then it all went wrong. I am
not happy about some of the stuff that landed this cycle with zero
design consideration for
it isn't an ABI change and the patch looks quite self-explanatory. I
wonder if we could backport this to the compiz that is in 12.04 if there
won't be a new release in time.
I am not sure if 50% less CPU use actually corresponds to it being
perceptibly faster, I hope it does, but less CPU use is
On 29/02/12 13:03, supernova wrote:
Reduce the size of the launcher icons. Libreoffice ones result pixelized.
eog /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/libreoffice-writer.png
looks good to me, there are icons for it at sizes 16,32,48,128,256 under
/usr/share/icons
and also SVG
eog /usr/share/
On 28/02/12 18:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
The shutdown and logout dialogs (and the restart dialog, when it was
separate) used to have a 60-second countdown. We dropped it because it
is wrong to assume that the computer will shut down or log out by
itself once the countdown reaches zero. After
On 28/02/12 21:41, supernova wrote:
Thanks a lot. What about libreoffice? If it can help, this happens
also with Oneiric, where
skype is included in ubuntu partners. It doesn't happen in gnomeshell
environment which is, under some point of view, similar to Unity.
Best regards
Supernova
Lib
On 28/02/12 15:37, supernova wrote:
Hi to all. I have noticed that some icons are at very low resolution.
I refer to these cases:
a) skype icon in the dash: it really seams a very small icon, at low
resolution, which was zoomed in many times.
b) libreoffice-pack icons (write, calc, impress) in t
On 24/02/12 16:10, Ryan Gauger wrote:
Manish,
You still do not have any facts. If you want to disprove Christianity,
it would certainly help if you had the facts and didn't just say
"Christianity is evil! Christianity is stupid!". My Jesus is also your
Jesus. Are you calling me a nutjob? If y
On 22/02/12 15:38, Sunil Singh Rana wrote:
Why not have filter result shown by default, and at least in app lense
deselect a particular filter as soon as other filter is selected. Use
may be ctrl click or double click to select multiple filters.
surely that would show even less of the stuff I ac
On 22/02/12 17:46, Omar B. wrote:
Doesnt really makes sense as a separate lens though.
yeah, this is the problem I have with it. If it is a separate lens then
the global search would return results from the core apps lens and my
alternative lens which would double up the results (I think).
I
The applications lens currently shows recent stuff (not to my taste, but
OK), one line of stuff I have that expands to 200 things I have (woah),
and 6 things I don't have (why??)
Is this set in stone?
could it be changed so that it is categorised by category?
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/
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
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
On 19/02/12 17:45, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
Alacarte recommends gnome-panel since that's what provides
/usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit which is what implements the dialog
to create a new item. Maybe we can breakout that binary into it's own
package?
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-
On 19/02/12 14:57, Evan Huus wrote:
At the moment, empty launcher space has no interactions at all. I
recall from an earlier discussion (when it was suggested to add a
'Settings' to the quicklist of empty launcher space) that this was a
design choice, that empty space shouldn't have any inter
One common request is to add arbitary applications to the launcher. This
is *hard* right now, you have to manually write a .desktop file (by
looking up the syntax on gnome.org or freedesktop.org) and then put it
somewhere that is a system area or a hidden folder. Most users don't
bother because
in response to the specific suggestion about lenses having "pages", that
really doesn't work with the search concept, if solitaire is on page 4
and I search for "sol" I kind of want it to be in front of me, not
several pages deep. Predictable pagination with lenses does not seem to
be a desirab
I don't quite get the apps lens either, but it is designed that way,
with the recent stuff at the top and the adverts for stuff you don't
have at the bottom and all your applications jumbled up in the middle.
Fortunately it is quite easy to write lenses so I ripped the apps lens
apart and took
On 13/02/12 16:54, Jamu Kakar wrote:
Hi Alan,
This sounds interesting, but I guess it's be a bit slow to use since
you have to mouse to the launcher, right click, get to the window you
want, and finally click on it.
yeah, not perfect, but a window list is kind of what I expect to see
when righ
On 13/02/12 12:59, supernova wrote:
Let's focus on HUD innovation, leaving the menu as a backstop till we have
great solutions for *both* aspects of the menu; exploration/discovery, and
command invocation.
this is important. HUD has potential, just ad the dash. They are the
real tutor of any Ubu
On 13/02/12 11:47, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
* if the app is running with windows, but not focused, bring the
last-focused window to the top and focus it
=> if we know there are other windows which are part of that
window's experience, like floating toolbars and palettes, raise them too
On 13/02/12 11:25, supernova wrote:
Hi to all. Menus are going to disappear in all application. Probably
in the future there will be no menu, but maybe something like HUD for
all OS. What is so the future of globalmenu? It is very important now,
expecially for small screens...but in a couple of y
Hi all,
I have been using Unity for about a year and I am still not getting on
well with it as a window manager, I used a different alt-tab switcher
for a while, but I want to be able to work with the default setup so I
have moved back to the totally vanilla unity setup. As I use it all the
t
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