Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-25 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Paulo, it sounds like a very convenient trick, in some particular contexts though. Like: - Schools in developing countries (probably the more sensible case, since laptops are quite popular in richer countries) - Homes with less mobility need (I guess your case) Probably these use case

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-24 Thread pjssi...@gmail.com
Matt basically covered everything I consider important in a first multiseat setup. I would only make the configuration of the active seat, the one that has permissions to control the system, controlling pluggable hardware and hot mountable media, simpler. Instead of allowing more than one seat and

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-22 Thread Matt Richardson
As a starting point for wizard set up: 1) When you first start the wizard it appears on both screens and introduces what multiseat is (many people may not know) 2) Clicking next shows two different messages on each screen. On the primary screen the wizard says "We will set up this seat first",

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-21 Thread Conscious User
Em 21-05-2012 20:03, pjssi...@gmail.com escreveu: I am not completely sure about this statement. Surely there is a great part of the setup that is too low level to be considered here. But it would be nice to come out with a specification of how the user should perceive the possibility of using mu

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-21 Thread pjssi...@gmail.com
> > In other words, even if the design requirements can be discussed > before the low-level stuff, it's outside the scope of this list. > I am not completely sure about this statement. Surely there is a great part of the setup that is too low level to be considered here. But it would be nice to co

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-21 Thread Conscious User
Em 21-05-2012 15:01, Connor Carney escreveu: In this case, I'd say the discussion shouldn't *start* on this list, but rather on a more low-level one. It can then return to this list when such wrapper is ready and the usability aspect can be prioritized. This strikes me as backw

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-21 Thread Connor Carney
> > In this case, I'd say the discussion shouldn't *start* on this > list, but rather on a more low-level one. It can then return > to this list when such wrapper is ready and the usability > aspect can be prioritized. > > Thoughts, anyone? This strikes me as backwards. If the user-facing desig

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-21 Thread Conscious User
Hi Paulo, If the wiki page you referenced is a clue, the current way of configuring multiseat seems so convoluted that, before we start thinking about user-friendly interfaces, it might be necessary to work on some sort of GUI-independent wrapper to unify all the different things that need to be

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-20 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le dim. 20 mai 2012 12:22:14 CEST, Gino Vincenzini a écrit : When you said multiseat, at first I thought you meant two mice and keyboard cursors on the same screen... which, pardon my French but that would be bad-ass On May 19, 2012 7:42 PM, "Gregory Merchan" mailto:gregory.merc...@gmail.com>> w

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-20 Thread Gino Vincenzini
When you said multiseat, at first I thought you meant two mice and keyboard cursors on the same screen... which, pardon my French but that would be bad-ass On May 19, 2012 7:42 PM, "Gregory Merchan" wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:58 PM, pjssi...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would

Re: [Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-19 Thread Gregory Merchan
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:58 PM, pjssi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to make a suggestion: make multiseat configuration easy in > Ubuntu. Kick me off the list for this if you will, but I had to do it: http://memegenerator.net/instance/20656186 -- Mailing list: https://launchpa

[Unity-design] Multiseat

2012-05-19 Thread pjssi...@gmail.com
Hello, I would like to make a suggestion: make multiseat configuration easy in Ubuntu. Since I am not sure that this is the right mailing list to post this idea I am going to try to keep the email relatively small. If I should wirte somewhere else please let me know. First I need to explain what