Re: [Unity-design] Dynamic wallpaper for quantal and beyond.

2012-05-13 Thread Chad M. Germann
Ubuntu does have a few Wallpapers that do this available at current for example the Gnome default stripes that has this ability is installed with gnome shell the one major hiccup Ubuntu has with this style of wallpaper is in LightDM as it seems not be able to read this type of wallpaper and does

Re: [Unity-design] Very awesome design mockup

2012-07-27 Thread Chad M. Germann
On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 16:56 +0100, Christian Giordano wrote: > Hi Britt, could you please clarify what is awesome in this mockup that > Ubuntu would NEED? the Application navigation is a major improvement Note how application nav. is opened as soon as one opens the dash the Applicatiuon lens pr

Re: [Unity-design] Very awesome design mockup

2012-07-27 Thread Chad M. Germann
On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 17:13 -0500, Gregory Merchan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Chad M. Germann wrote: > > . . . > > Ubuntu should embrace its Unix heritage and move all those scrollbars to > > the left. > > Are you trolling? I am to Old to flamebate

Re: [Unity-design] windows 8 ui

2012-08-05 Thread Chad M. Germann
You must not read to much tech news Both Blizzard and Valve have called Windows a "disaster" http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/8202/article/windows-8-is-a-disaster-for-pc-gamers-blizzard-and-valve-devs-voice-concern/ Now the real telling one is that John C Dvorak who is normally a Microsoft

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: What do we do with the file manager?

2012-08-09 Thread Chad M. Germann
SolusOS has the right idea i think and are wighting patches for nautilus to make it a little less annoying. Taking similar approach would take less manpower and would provide more stability than jumping to one of these other managers. http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/install-solusos-patched-nautil

Re: [Unity-design] webapps and the sound menu

2012-12-12 Thread Chad M. Germann
The UI should not dictate how people use their computers. Peoples use should dictate the UI. If people want to open multiple tabs and players and it is a recognized issue Steps should be taken to make their experience better. "People should not do this therefore were not going to fix the proble

Re: [Unity-design] end user ajustable Global menu Blacklist

2013-01-28 Thread Chad M. Germann
-Original Message- From: unity-design-bounces+cgermann=gmail@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:unity-design-bounces+cgermann=gmail@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Chow Loong Jin Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 10:28 PM To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Unity-design]

Re: [Unity-design] end user ajustable Global menu Blacklist

2013-01-29 Thread Chad M. Germann
-Original Message- From: unity-design-bounces+cgermann=gmail@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:unity-design-bounces+cgermann=gmail@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Conscious User Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:05 AM To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Unity-design]

Re: [Unity-design] end user ajustable Global menu Blacklist

2013-01-29 Thread Chad M. Germann
2. Ergonomics If you're using focus follows mouse and don't already know about it? Sure. Otherwise, no. You know to fling your mouse to the top (and with acceleration, that's one movement) and bam, there's your menu. No need to hit a strip *somewhere* on the screen. Always at the top. Were n

Re: [Unity-design] end user ajustable Global menu Blacklist

2013-02-01 Thread Chad M. Germann
First of all thank you for your reply it is nice to see such concerns actually being responded to. Yes, when I first saw that the menus were hidden, I reported it as a bug. It seems we agree on this point sadly, the log on the bug shows lots of foot draggin