[Unity-design] Fwd: About tiling window management in Unity

2012-02-23 Thread gabriel pettier
Hi everybody First, i want to point I'm overall very very happy with Unity efforts, and i speak out loud about it since Natty, it's a great thing, and it helped increasing my productivity a lot, while getting me back to a more "standard" desktop (was using wmii before, as gnome ergonomic didn'

Re: [Unity-design] Launcher should be optional on secondary displays

2012-02-24 Thread gabriel pettier
Le 24/02/2012 18:08, Jan Claeys a écrit : Nicholas Skaggs schreef op wo 22-02-2012 om 11:25 [-0500]: So what's so bad about edge detection? I move windows and my mouse cursor back and forth between monitors, and the edge detection for the launcher between the monitors traps my mouse in a non-int

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: About tiling window management in Unity

2012-02-25 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le jeu. 23 févr. 2012 12:48:46 CET, gabriel pettier a écrit : Hi everybody First, i want to point I'm overall very very happy with Unity efforts, and i speak out loud about it since Natty, it's a great thing, and it helped increasing my productivity a lot, while getting me back

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: About tiling window management in Unity

2012-02-26 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le 26/02/2012 18:46, Philipp Gassmann a écrit : Am 02/26/2012 04:06 PM, schrieb frederik.nn...@gmail.com: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 15:50, Philipp Gassmann <mailto:phi...@phiphi.ch>> wrote: Am 02/26/2012 02:21 PM, schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: > On 26/02/12 11:50, Gabriel P

Re: [Unity-design] Is there a reason Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down was disabled?

2012-02-27 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le 27/02/2012 17:21, nick rundy a écrit : The only conflict I've come across with Ctrl+Alt+left/right is in VLC. VLC has a feature where the user can jump five minutes ahead/back in a playing video by tapping Ctrl+Alt+right/left. But VLC's keyboard shortcut configuration dialog easily allows th

Re: [Unity-design] Is there a reason Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down was disabled?

2012-02-28 Thread gabriel pettier
Le 28/02/2012 02:30, nick rundy a écrit : Guys consider these keyboard shortcuts instead of the currently proposed ones. these basically keep the same pattern of old (e.g., Alt+F10 maximizes window and Alt+F9 minimizes window) but instead switches ALT for SUPER. Alt+F10 becomes Super+F10

Re: [Unity-design] Multi-monitor issues

2012-03-02 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le 02/03/2012 14:22, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit : On 02. mars 2012 12:40, Alan Pope wrote: Have you tried reducing GConf /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/stop_velocity and /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/reveal_pressure? I have not. I'm not inclined to acc

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: About tiling window management in Unity

2012-03-05 Thread Gabriel Pettier
ot; option somewhere? (and the up arrow would allow cycling between maximized/half up/half down/restored size). Just some thought. Regards. 2012/2/26 Gabriel Pettier : > Le 26/02/2012 18:46, Philipp Gassmann a écrit : > > Am 02/26/2012 04:06 PM, schrieb frederik.nn...@gmail.com: > > O

Re: [Unity-design] Important Message

2012-03-11 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le dim. 11 mars 2012 03:45:58 CET, Jo-Erlend Schinstad a écrit : Ryan, please take your evangelism elsewhere. Unity and religion doesn't exclude one another, but there's also no logical connection between them. There's certainly nothing particularly Christian about it. Whether you believe in o

Re: [Unity-design] Ability to remove Spaces-Icon from launcher for my parents :)

2012-03-14 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le jeu. 15 mars 2012 00:29:24 CET, nick rundy a écrit : I've been sitting my elderly parents down in front of 12.04 Beta because I plan to transition them off 10.04 onto 12.04 stable in May. I think ultimately (despite them having to learn some new ways of doing things) Unity will be easier for

Re: [Unity-design] Volume past 100% on the indicator

2012-03-21 Thread gabriel pettier
Le mer. 21 mars 2012 17:13:51 CET, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar a écrit : On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Omar B. mailto:estela...@hotmail.com>> wrote: I usually need to push the volume past 100% on a daily basis. me too ! i 80% (which i believe is the currently displayed 100%) is where

Re: [Unity-design] HUD activation key

2012-03-30 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 30 mars 2012 09:57:47 CEST, Thorsten Wilms a écrit : On 03/30/2012 01:08 AM, Gustav Sony wrote: How many apps are affected? I only heard about emacs, which is definitely a power-user tool! Wouldn't it be possible to make some exceptions for applications which rely on ALT as modifier? If

Re: [Unity-design] [Unity-dev] HUD activation key

2012-03-30 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 30 mars 2012 10:07:03 CEST, Artem Popov a écrit : 2012/3/30 Mark Shuttleworth: Hi folks From a design point of view, and an engineering point of view, can we offer a choice of left-ALT, right-ALT or CAPS for the HUD activation? Left ALT is a bad choice because it causes the HUD to ne

Re: [Unity-design] HUD activation key

2012-03-30 Thread gabriel pettier
Le 30/03/2012 13:12, Conscious User a écrit : Em 30-03-2012 05:15, gabriel pettier escreveu: I don't get the issue, the HUD is only displayed if you do a brief taping on alt, i don't know of any application that use such a brief tap on alt, softwares always use this key in combin

Re: [Unity-design] HUD activation key

2012-03-30 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 30 mars 2012 16:41:46 CEST, Conscious User a écrit : I trust you, but do you really change your mind/get distracted in less than half of a second? because here, if i keep alt down for more than that, there is no hud when i release… the tap need to be brief… i really don't see any proble

Re: [Unity-design] switching amongst application instances from the unity panel is ineffective (some suggestions on how it could be fixed/improved)

2012-04-11 Thread gabriel pettier
Le 11/04/2012 13:55, Ronan Lucio a écrit : Hi, I just think it's an interesting discussion and I just would like to add keyboard options. For me, it's so important switching from applications using keyboard. It's more productive. Having to move your hands from keyboard to mouse, select windo

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-05-02 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Double (simultaneous) touch on a touchpad should do a right click and triple touch should do a middle click. Dunno if that works with magic mouse. Le 2 mai 2012 07:49, "Chris" a écrit : > Middleclick/scrollwheelclick can be achieved by clicking both buttons > simultaneously. That also works on m

Re: [Unity-design] unity-distilled list proposal

2012-05-07 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le mar. 08 mai 2012 00:49:26 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : This makes sense. A completely new list may very well lead up to more off-topic emails. Also, I do think that the author of the Linux kernel (Linus Torvoids, sorry if the name is spelled wrong) does want Linux development to be open. It wou

Re: [Unity-design] Religion in the Ubuntu namespace

2012-05-11 Thread Gabriel Pettier
I'm with you, I think exactly the same. Except it was a bit naive from you to think you could make an old and extremely religious person let off her believes, especially because of rational discussions, it just can't work. Anyway I don't think you have to leave, I didn't see you do any wrong to any

Re: [Unity-design] Religion in the Ubuntu namespace

2012-05-11 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 11 mai 2012 17:54:00 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : On 05/11/2012 10:00 AM, cmaglothin wrote: No. It is not bound to happen, because most religious can go about their business without parading about with their beliefs on their shoulders. Ryan, I am quite sure that ALL of this ruckus about

Re: [Unity-design] Religion in the Ubuntu namespace

2012-05-11 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 11 mai 2012 17:56:27 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : On 05/11/2012 10:55 AM, gabriel pettier wrote: Le ven. 11 mai 2012 17:54:00 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : On 05/11/2012 10:00 AM, cmaglothin wrote: No. It is not bound to happen, because most religious can go about their business without

Re: [Unity-design] Religion in the Ubuntu namespace

2012-05-11 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 11 mai 2012 18:25:14 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : On 05/11/2012 11:21 AM, Robert Xu wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Ryan Gauger wrote: On 05/11/2012 11:01 AM, gabriel pettier wrote: Then you do everything correctly, because you are harvesting some hate with all this ! Thank

Re: [Unity-design] Moderation

2012-05-13 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le dim. 13 mai 2012 18:47:39 CEST, Vibhav Pant a écrit : +1 I was always waiting for this! On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Mark Shuttleworth mailto:m...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: Hi folks Instead of adding a -distilled list, we are going to follow the pattern of ubuntu-devel, where

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] Extend the non-active behaviour to the title bar of the window

2012-05-21 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le lun. 21 mai 2012 22:03:13 CEST, Thorsten Wilms a écrit : On 05/21/2012 09:49 PM, Roshan P Koshy wrote: the closest suggestion possible is the image .The shade effect is provided by HazeOver app for mac OSX. But i think it is difficukt now. Reducing brightness and/or contrast of the entire

Re: [Unity-design] proposal for making ubuntu really faster

2012-05-27 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le dim. 27 mai 2012 20:02:38 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : That's true - world is perception a lot of times. I like this idea - it would give the appearance of faster load time. Actually, we could automatically start to load all programs on the launcher at login, but not show that they are runni

Re: [Unity-design] Desktop as a widget space.

2012-05-29 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le mar. 29 mai 2012 21:23:00 CEST, Petko a écrit : On 05/29/2012 09:55 PM, shane lee wrote: Widgets are nothing new. They have been on the go for many years and never really taken off. I know quite a few people using KDE, including myself who have never bothered with widgets after the first few

Re: [Unity-design] Notification Click Event

2012-06-08 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 08 juin 2012 15:46:08 CEST, Ryan Gauger a écrit : Hello, I had an idea: how about having the notifications go to the app that is notifying you if you click on it. I thought that might be a good idea... Thanks!!! ---Ryan No, it's great that the notification becomes transparent if you

Re: [Unity-design] Notification Click Event

2012-06-08 Thread gabriel pettier
n, and was thinking it what we could add a close button to them. ---or better yet, maybe keep them the way they are (transparent), but add a “switch-to-app” button, and a “close” or “hide” button. We maybe could put these on the top left-hand corner? Let me know what you think about that... *From:* gabri

Re: [Unity-design] Indicators: Spacing and Kerning

2012-06-14 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le jeu. 14 juin 2012 22:30:56 CEST, Chris Wilson a écrit : On 14 June 2012 20:29, Paul Sladen mailto:ubu...@paul.sladen.org>> wrote: It could be possible to reduce the pixel count aswell. What counts as 'small' for you? What you do feel the solution would be? To specify the minimu

Re: [Unity-design] Fwd: Where is the F3 shortcut on Nautilus ?? Ubuntu 12.10

2012-06-22 Thread gabriel pettier
Le ven. 22 juin 2012 13:54:02 CEST, Alan Bell a écrit : 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

Re: [Unity-design] windows 8 ui

2012-08-05 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le dim. 05 août 2012 11:06:22 CEST, Pedro Bessa a écrit : Hi, microsoft replaced the start button with a desktop area that contains the favorite apps and all apps. It's cool with a horizontal navigation. You see all your dear computer things at the same time, so you stop to comtemplate all your

Re: [Unity-design] windows 8 ui

2012-08-05 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le dim. 05 août 2012 22:52:05 CEST, Pedro Bessa a écrit : Em 05-08-2012 06:11, Gabriel Pettier escreveu: Le dim. 05 août 2012 11:06:22 CEST, Pedro Bessa a écrit : Hi, microsoft replaced the start button with a desktop area that contains the favorite apps and all apps. It's cool w

Re: [Unity-design] new possible dash feature

2012-09-10 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Le lun. 10 sept. 2012 22:35:17 CEST, Ian Santopietro a écrit : We do have this. Hit super and then type what you want into the dash. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:48 PM, supernova mailto:supernova...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi to all, while cleaning my keyboard in a kde session, i discovered th

Re: [Unity-design] Musical continuity

2012-10-12 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Well, i guess you can use the UI integration with an MPD frontend :) On ven. 12 oct. 2012 16:35:51 CEST, Ryan Prior wrote: Unity already gives music-playing app developers the very cool opportunity to integrate with the Music menu, giving the user the ability to control playback from a consisten

Re: [Unity-design] Session Handling -or- Stop Wasting My Time

2012-10-21 Thread Gabriel Pettier
I'd love too, to have such an option, that works reliably, that's why i use suspend whenever i can, and i hate when i get a unity crash or something, all my windows on all workspaces are lost/messed up, it's a pain, i want something that doesn't make me think too. i'm not sure it can even work

Re: [Unity-design] EOG - Display Google Photosphere

2012-11-04 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Next android release, yes. Camera will have a Photo Sphere mode, helping producing them. There is an apk floating around, but it doesn't work very well on my Jelly Bean, i guess it's better to wait for the release. Anyway, it's not really related to unity-design, right? Le 04/11/2012 12:11, Al

Re: [Unity-design] Sliding desktop

2012-11-12 Thread Gabriel Pettier
I find the dash really unbearably slow these days (since updates to 12.10 i think), and i tried to remove the blur, and found it to be still very slow, so there must be something more (and my computer is 6 cores with 8GB ram, my gpu is the onboard Radeon HD 4250 with free driver, it shouldn't b

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Gabriel Pettier
I would hate this too, even if you seldomly use it, doesn't need you won't find it infuriating that it went away when you'll actually need it. I'm pretty sure people would hate to have them removed. Le 11/12/2012 21:10, Josh Strawbridge a écrit : just because an application ships with ubuntu do

[Unity-design] Fwd: About tiling window management in Unity

2015-03-19 Thread Gabriel Pettier
Hi everybody First, i want to point I'm overall very very happy with Unity efforts, and i speak out loud about it since Natty, it's a great thing, and it helped increasing my productivity a lot, while getting me back to a more "standard" desktop (was using wmii before, as gnome ergonomic didn't f

[Unity-design] About tiling window management in Unity

2015-03-20 Thread gabriel pettier
Hi everybody First, i want to point I'm overall very very happy with Unity efforts, and i speak out loud about it since Natty, it's a great thing, and it helped increasing my productivity a lot, while getting me back to a more "standard" desktop (was using wmii before, as gnome ergonomic didn't f