Re: [Unity-design] Integrating Google's NaCl could help solve the Chicken and egg dilema in ubuntu?

2012-02-08 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
All I can say is a huge thumbs up for this proposal! I've been dreaming of this ever since NaCl was first announced. Well, it's not just an announcement now: it's here, it works and it's been getting lots of attention. This would open up a huge market for Ubuntu. The necessary pieces are there, t

Re: [Unity-design] Integrating Google's NaCl could help solve the Chicken and egg dilema in ubuntu?

2012-02-08 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
2012/2/8 James Gifford > Not to be a killjoy, but may I ask exactly what this has to do with > [Unity-design]? I love the idea as well, would just like to keep this in > the appropriate place. :) > I'm not the original poster, but the original question was how to integrate NaCl into Unity seamle

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

2012-02-08 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
2012/2/8 Michael Hall > > > On 02/08/2012 09:49 AM, tommy wrote: > >> If minimize by launcher were possible, I could simply Super+1, Super+3, >> Super+7 and I'm all done having few windows I want, insted of 20 clicks >> and moving mouse along the whole desktop. >> > > I haven't had a use for mini

Re: [Unity-design] Re : No more dodge windows in Unity ? Why keep the "Always hide" option ?

2012-02-10 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
I agree with setting always visible as default, and I agree that three options are overkill. So how about this solution: Rename dodge to auto-hide. I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned before. Dodge achieves the same result as auto-hide, with the added advantage of faster access when no windo

Re: [Unity-design] Non-app launcher entries always on top or bottom?

2012-02-14 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
2012/2/14 Mark Curtis > The trash is alway at the very bottom corner, but the workspace switcher > moves depending on the number of shortcuts/open programs in the launcher. > > Is there any way to move "show desktop" to the bottom corner? I don't use trash (like ever), but I do use show desktop

Re: [Unity-design] On left-clicking the launcher with multiple instances running

2012-02-16 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
2012/2/16 Thorsten Wilms > On 02/15/2012 10:10 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > MPT can probably point to it, but there's more research that people >> don't understand the difference between minimising and closing, and >> "just want it back" when they click on the app icon. So that's what we >>

Re: [Unity-design] creating .desktop files to add launcher entries

2012-02-19 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
Since empty space shouldn't have interactions, the "Create New Launcher" option could appear when right-clicking the BFB. Conceptually it makes sense, since the BFB is the only tile that interacts with the launcher directly (the rest are all related to applications or folders). -- Mailing list: h

Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting

2012-02-21 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
The obvious solution would be to make the close button touch the top and left borders of the screen. This way, you can just throw your mouse up-left and click without aiming, as per Fitt's law. A bug was reported ~9 months ago or so, but apparently there were bigger fish to fry first - so the clos

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

2012-02-23 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
This discussion is rather ridiculous. If you an desktop environment built on a single toolkit, install a distro that ships a vanilla Gnome 3.2 (Evolution, Epiphany, Gnome Shell, Gnome Office, etc) or KDE 4.8 (KMail, Konqueror, KWin, Caligra, etc). What you are looking for is already there and, fr

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

2012-02-23 Thread Stefanos Apostolopoulos
2012/2/23 Jonathan Meek > Never mind that the toolkit is strongly tied to the functionality and > appearance. So instead of improving the appearance of, say, the XUL toolkit, you'd prefer rewriting Firefox and Thunderbird in a completely different toolkit (or, shudder, dropping Firefox in favor