Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-03-02 Thread Omar B .
nice. is also fun to click "pulse" like mad! :) From: christian.giord...@canonical.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:14:54 + To: m...@ubuntu.com CC: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher Here a quick Flash (booo) prototy

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-03-02 Thread Christian Giordano
Here a quick Flash (booo) prototype showing the connection that we could have between the knight rider bar and the progress of the process. Every time the process progresses it could send a pulse event to the bar (emulated in the prototype by a click on the "pulse" button). There is a maxmium speed

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-03-02 Thread Christian Giordano
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Going deeper: what matters with these numbers is not the number itself, > but the *change* in the number. Think of any example, like the number of > updates to an app. What matters is that you've gone from zero to 3 or from > 2 to 6. Goin

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-03-01 Thread Nekhelesh
On 03/01/2012 08:24 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 29/02/12 20:22, Carl Ansell wrote: I believe the number was just used to show the position of the spinner, and does not actually have anything to do with the status of the spinner at all. Correct me if I'm wrong though. The app can decide if

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-03-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 29/02/12 20:22, Carl Ansell wrote: I believe the number was just used to show the position of the spinner, and does not actually have anything to do with the status of the spinner at all. Correct me if I'm wrong though. The app can decide if it wants the number, or the spinner, or both. I

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-03-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 29/02/12 19:30, Jamu Kakar wrote: - If the number is quite large, like 1000, there won't be enough horizontal space for the spinner. We already map to *** for numbers over 999. There's room. Going deeper: what matters with these numbers is not the number itself, but the *change* in the nu

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Carl Ansell
Hi Chris I believe the number was just used to show the position of the spinner, and does not actually have anything to do with the status of the spinner at all. Correct me if I'm wrong though. On Wed 29 Feb 2012 18:46:24 GMT, Chris wrote: Hi everyone, It's not entirely clear why there s

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Chris
Hi everyone, It's not entirely clear why there should be a number showing at all when that spinner pops up. The spinner is indicative in terms of showing that the app is doing something that can't be clearly be defined as growing number (0% - 100%). As such I don't see a problem in temporary repla

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Jamu Kakar
Hi, On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 29/02/12 01:13, Evan Huus wrote: > I've done a really basic mockup at [1] - I'm not much of a graphics > artist, but hopefully it'll get the concept across. > > [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171647/Unity_Launcher_Busy_Mockup.png > >

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Omar B .
Once it starts spinning it would be more noticeable, of course it could be tweaked a bit. >>that looks good. >Thank you very much, I'm available for weddings and cut-n-paste jobs. Awesome! :D On 29. feb. 2012 17:31, Mark Shuttleworth w

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 29/02/12 17:47, Omar B. wrote: that looks good. Thank you very much, I'm available for weddings and cut-n-paste jobs. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://h

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Evan Huus
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 29/02/12 01:13, Evan Huus wrote: > > I've done a really basic mockup at [1] - I'm not much of a graphics > artist, but hopefully it'll get the concept across. > > [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171647/Unity_Launcher_Busy_Mockup.png > >

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 29. feb. 2012 17:31, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Can you insert the spinny in the number slot, please, rather than adding a new slot? Perhaps like this: I have very good eye sight, but I couldn't actually see that spinner

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Omar B .
that looks good. Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:31:28 +0100 From: m...@ubuntu.com To: eapa...@gmail.com CC: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher On 29/02/12 01:13, Evan Huus wrote: I've done a really basic m

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 29/02/12 01:13, Evan Huus wrote: I've done a really basic mockup at [1] - I'm not much of a graphics artist, but hopefully it'll get the concept across. [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171647/Unity_Launcher_Busy_Mockup.png Can you insert the spinny in

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-28 Thread Evan Huus
I've done a really basic mockup at [1] - I'm not much of a graphics artist, but hopefully it'll get the concept across. The use case I see for this feature is basically the same use case that the regular launcher-progressbar fills. When you have an application that's doing something, it's nice to

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
It might be worth exploring the use of a spinny in the space we place numbers, but not a progress bar. Mockups welcome. On 28/02/12 05:59, Ian Santopietro wrote: In cases where there is no determined percentage or time remaining, I don't feel it would be appropriate to show a progress bar t

Re: [Unity-design] Indeterminate Progress Bar On Launcher

2012-02-27 Thread Ian Santopietro
In cases where there is no determined percentage or time remaining, I don't feel it would be appropriate to show a progress bar there at all. Indeterminate progress bars are great for a particular window for indicating that _something_ is happening, but I don't think this behavior is appropriate fo