Re: [Unity-design] No more dodge windows in Unity?

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Bicha
default on netbooks. In Natty, finding System Settings was a challenge, but in Oneiric there's half a dozen (or many more depending on how you count) ways to open up System Settings. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Unity-design] proposal "about this computer"

2012-02-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
//michel.renon.free.fr/ubuntu/about_menu_2.jpg This general idea already exists in System Settings in the System Info panel (renamed for better or for worse to "Details" in GNOME 3.4). You should talk to the gnome-control-center developers if you think there are specific things missing s

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu, Toolkits, Precision, and the Future

2012-02-23 Thread Jeremy Bicha
re lots of ways to customize your Ubuntu. There's a strong focus on usability though which limits available choices, such as in System Settings. Jeremy Bicha -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://laun

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

2012-02-23 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 23 February 2012 22:25, Ryan Gauger wrote: > On 02/23/2012 09:18 PM, Dub wrote: > > As much as I love reading GIANT emails from religious people, I think this > should be closed as it was solved. > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Ryan Gauger wrote: >> >>  On 02/23/2012 07:14 PM, Jo-Erlend

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

2012-02-23 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 23 February 2012 22:50, Ryan Gauger wrote: > How is it inappropriate that I am trying to turn people's eyes towards > Jesus? Jesus can save! He is the most-powerful. We have never had any > conversations like this before to my knowledge, so please do not > un-subscribe. Fact: Only ONE person on

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

2012-02-23 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 23 February 2012 23:12, Ryan Gauger wrote: > It is the space if Jesus tells me to do so on this mailing list. I am with > you, it has nothing to do with the discussion now, but Jesus gives all > Christians permission to (and actually tells them to in the Bible) "spread > the Good News to all na

Re: [Unity-design] Some impressions about the current status of Unity

2012-02-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
few of the gnome-games, such as gnomine, gtali, etc. I've opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/941231 requesting that Unity support the new "Keywords" entry, and I'll be following up with Software Center to do the same. Jeremy Bicha -- Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Unity-design] Installing Apps right from the Dash

2012-02-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
"lots of people" prefer using the Dash to Software Center for installing apps? Jeremy Bicha -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

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

2012-02-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ttings? I already opened http://pad.lv/941697 for #3. Since as already been stated, adding a restart option to the system menu would require an "are you sure"-style popup which is already provided by the existing shut down dialog, I don't think that's necessarily a use

Re: [Unity-design] Ubuntu, Toolkits, Precision, and the Future

2012-02-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 27 February 2012 08:24, Chris Wilson wrote: > An app that is written in Qt does not automatically have a particular visual > theme. Instead, Qt inherits the theme of whatever platform it's compiled on. > When I compile my Qt code on Ubuntu, it always looks like a native GTK+ > based app. I've n

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

2012-02-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
7;re using upstream's integrated Printers panel. In Unity, system-config-printer is used. Any thing in System Settings that opens a new window instead of being built-in can be considered a bug. Patches are welcome for fixing these. Jeremy Bicha -- Mailing list: https://launchpa

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

2012-02-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 28 February 2012 15:15, Petko wrote: > Also I want to raise a question as a user of Ubuntu : Why is there no "are > you sure" dialogue for Suspend or Hibernate ? At least once every week I > click one of those by accident (I did it yesterday again) and that's a lot > for an action that's very r

Re: [Unity-design] Tour on first login

2012-03-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 26 March 2012 17:11, Christian Rupp wrote: > When a new user logs into Ubuntu he/she doesn't know anything about the OS > so we should introduce the key-features in a small tour: > key-features are: > - Dash and the lenses > - Launcher and Workspaces > - Firefox > - Thunderbird > - Ubuntu One >

Re: [Unity-design] Which folders does home lens search for applications

2012-04-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 7 April 2012 07:27, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Den 07. april 2012 13:12, skrev Colin Law: > >> On 7 April 2012 12:03, Pedro Bessa  wrote: >>> >>> On 07-04-2012 06:02, Colin Law wrote: Does the Home Lens use the presence of .desktop files to show applications?  If so which folde

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

2012-05-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 4 May 2012 00:10, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > There's lots of value in having a public, unmoderated list for design > discussions. It's good to have a place where anybody can generate ideas. > And this list is fine for that. I'd like to propose an additional list, > unity-distilled, which would

Re: [Unity-design] Software-Center proposals ...

2012-06-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 28 May 2012 07:46, Gustav Sony wrote: > * More info on "network-manager-gnome" shows some Add-ons, but why it is > restricted to four items? This specification explains how Software Center recognizes packages as add-ons. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Add-on_packages > * Reading the

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 24 June 2012 03:35, Jonathan Meek wrote: > Someone asked me to get some info to them about Nautilus' menu when right > clicking an image file, this is what I was confronted with: Could you please send your proposal to the Nautilus developers? https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-l

Re: [Unity-design] Worrying nautilus development direction, New default file manager?

2012-07-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 4 July 2012 12:30, nick rundy wrote: > I think the proposal to swap Nautilus with Marlin should at least be made > part of the agenda for discussion/consideration at UDS-R. I don't think Marlin (or pantheon-files or whatever) will be considered to replace Nautilus until after it is first packa

Re: [Unity-design] Files

2012-07-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 20 July 2012 10:38, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > cmaglothin wrote on 20/07/12 05:51: >> ... >> >> Not to detract from current conversation, but how is calling an >> app that deals solely with files by the name Files bad? > > "Where do I go to organize my files?" > "Files." I can image it's mor

Re: [Unity-design] alternative to the removed split view in nautilus?

2012-07-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 30 July 2012 12:34, Omar B. wrote: > The argument for removing f3 / split view in nautilus was that gnome-shell > and ubuntu/unity supposedly have the "aero snap" feature: > > thoughts ? If you want to discuss Nautilus design & development, I encourage you to use the right list for that: https

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

2012-09-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 23 September 2012 13:52, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: > What if there was a new message and I am currently online? The screenshot > proposed only depict one status at a time which are chat status or email > status. To be honest, the icons currently now seem fine. I am not sure why > the communi

Re: [Unity-design] possibility to use QT

2012-11-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 6 November 2012 08:43, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: > We are in a situation where even the code base (GTK/GNOME) is more > different as the time goes on. Ubuntu is not either using the new > Nautilus. They completly ignored Gnome Online Account to implement > Ubuntu Online Account etc... this is g

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

2012-11-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 4 November 2012 11:17, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > Its related to Ubuntu (Unity) in the way that there is a good chance > that we will see this kind of images in future a lot (Android has > millions of users) and it would be nice if Ubuntu could support that > media type sooner than later. > >

Re: [Unity-design] What can we learn from Elementary OS?

2012-12-10 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 9 December 2012 22:10, Britt Yazel wrote: > The one thing that Elementary has done extremely well is the creation of > their own DE called Pantheon. They have created more than just a shell for > Gnome3 (not to belittle what Unity has done), but they have also rebuilt > most of their underlying

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

2012-12-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 12 December 2012 19:01, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > I think the clicked-by-accident problem is an underrated problem. Which > other UI element has the potential to make a "normal application" with >>one > click<< nearly unusable? Unusable not for only one session, nope, it saves > the sorting

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

2012-12-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 12 December 2012 11:26, Alex Launi wrote: > Hello, we on the webapps team are looking for design input with respect > to the sound menu. We'd like a more elegant solution for dealing with > multiple players, for instance having 4 or 5 youtube tabs open at a > time. The current spec (not actuall

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

2012-12-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 13 December 2012 09:57, Alex Launi wrote: > Like any software, webapps will always be incomplete. The implementation > of the integration was not poor (at least I don't like to think so), but > there were features that got de-scoped for 12.10. Chromeless browsing in > Firefox was one item. Ther

Re: [Unity-design] web apps and the launcher [was: webapps and the sound menu]

2013-01-10 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 10 January 2013 10:38, Alex Launi wrote: > Why not? What about the icon at the bottom of your launcher bothers you? Do > you think that your opinion is a reflection of the general case? I'm > curious, because never has a launcher icon caused me a second thought. > > Designers (hopefully) readin

Re: [Unity-design] Unity needs a "presentation mode" (inbuilt way to inhibit screensaver)

2013-02-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 18 February 2013 12:19, Brandon Watkins wrote: > Unity really needs an easy inbuilt "presention mode" where you could either > hit a key combination or use an inbuilt indicator to completely indicate > screensaver/screen blanking/suspend. There are many use cases for this, such > as watching vi