Re: [Unity-design] Remove Pornographic Apps from the "Apps available for download"

2012-02-23 Thread Dylan McCall
A blacklist strikes me as decidedly unmaintainable, unless something is happening at a deep level to tag packages from the start. What is stopping the "Apps available for download" feature from presenting apps only when it has some reasonable expectation they might be of interest to the end user? F

Re: [Unity-design] Quit vs Close - Quicklists

2012-02-23 Thread Dylan McCall
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:01 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: > the right-click menu in the launchers for e.g. Empathy or Transmission show > an entry labeled "Quit". > Clicking this item does not make the applications quit, it merely closes > their respective main window. > > Quit and Close s

Re: [Unity-design] Are there plans to add "Reboot" item to the power-cog menu in panel?

2012-03-01 Thread Dylan McCall
> What Windows does (XP/Vista/7/8 Consumer Preview) is immediately start > shutting down after you choose that option. When I want my computer to shut > down, I do not want my computer to try to negotiate something different > (confirmation dialog), I just want it to shut down. I don't know how som

Re: [Unity-design] Are there plans to add "Reboot" item to the power-cog menu in panel?

2012-03-01 Thread Dylan McCall
> It lets you decide which option to display in on the Power button. So in > this case, it is more customisable. So in this case, the power button in the > Start Menu is not random. By default, it is set to "Shutdown", but you can > change it to "Lock", "Hibernate", or "Sleep". I know this much bec

Re: [Unity-design] adding a startup application is not average user friendly

2012-03-03 Thread Dylan McCall
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Den 03. mars 2012 02:27, skrev Andrew Starr-Bochicchio: > >> Adding a startup application is not something an average user would >> want to do. Applications that have a reason to start with the session >> should add themselves to that l

Re: [Unity-design] (no subject)

2012-03-13 Thread Dylan McCall
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Faheem Padia wrote: > […] > Basically from the opinions of other Ubuntu users I have read (mostly on > OMGUbuntu) I understand that LIM is not particularly popular in its > current form. The 2 main criticisms I have come across commonly are that > 1. having a verti

Re: [Unity-design] Data sharing protocoll in Ubuntu

2012-03-13 Thread Dylan McCall
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, balint...@gmail.com wrote: > Sorry if it was discussed before, anyway... > I have been using Android and Windows 8 recently quite a lot. These two guys > have one pretty clever feature, i would certainly like to have in Ubuntu. > Its their data-sharing protocoll. >

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

2012-08-12 Thread Dylan McCall
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote: > Nautilus is just the latest thing the eyes have fallen on. It's really > indicative of the bigger picture... Take what I wrote here, for instance: > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/ubuntu-design-micro-vs-macro > > NONE of the next generati

Re: [Unity-design] Notification design problem

2012-09-19 Thread Dylan McCall
This is all intended behaviour. A lot of it is explained in the wiki, at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines. You can find the rationale, as well as some advice on how to do pretty well any kind of notification. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:52 A

Re: [Unity-design] Idea: Implementing a Lens Toggle into the System Settings

2012-09-24 Thread Dylan McCall
Oops, I accidentally sent this to just Mark a while ago. Sorry, Mark! On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 24/09/12 02:29, Sam Hewitt wrote: > > I would like to append > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-keyboard-shortcuts.png to > the above. > > On Sun, Se

Re: [Unity-design] Sliding desktop

2012-11-12 Thread Dylan McCall
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM, balint...@gmail.com wrote: > I have made a really quick mockup about what i think would solve 2 things i > dont like about the current implementation of unity. > > The blurred dash slows down the overall unity experience. Especially on > non-intel devices and whil

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] The Software Updater should show just the source package to update

2012-12-13 Thread Dylan McCall
This is effectively part of the Software Updates specification, which I _should_ be working on implementing for Raring: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates Updates are grouped according to the applications they belong to, and those applications get presented in a more familiar fashion. One of

Re: [Unity-design] The Software Updater should show just the source package to update

2012-12-14 Thread Dylan McCall
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Marco Biscaro wrote: > It's looking very nice, much, much better than before, but wouldn't the > "Ubuntu base" group be too much cluttered? For example, in the following > screenshot a lot of unity-related packages are grouped with a lot of > gstreamer-related