Re: [Usability] GNOME Command line interface

eat project. But it seems to me that the > reason the "start" command on Windows needs to handle programs > is that it's hard to launch programs otherwise. It's a solution > for a problem that we don't have. nohup foo& you mean. Just backgrounding won'

Re: [Usability] Focus changes while dragging icons

quite annoying when > > for example a bigger window suddenly hide a smaller one where you > > precisely want to drop the file. > I don't observe this behaviour. Focus follows mouse v. click to focus, perhaps? -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt

Re: [Usability] Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

was considered a humanist font? That's definitely a serif font. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org

Re: [Usability] HIG: Fixing the sort arrow direction guideline

far as I'm concerned, they could've used a blue circle and a red square to indicate sort direction for all the sense it's ever made. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Usability] Gnome 3.0 Research Post processing

how would be the best way to expose the data. Anybody > > willing to help assemble them? > > When I think of 'good text formatting', I think LaTeX. It also can use > some very good chart packages. > > That might be a bit overkill though. I would

Re: [Usability] Gnome 3.0 Research Post processing

e the best way to expose the data. Anybody > willing to help assemble them? For charts, if OOo Calc isn't doing it for you, PyCairoCharts makes nice charts as PNGs. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

rad students don't care, usually). One that only offers 2-yr degrees (associates) are junior colleges. > > Could say did not finish secondary, secondary, post-secondary, > > vocational. > > > > I also sent a mail to the list with post-secondary broken into >

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys -English education status

ns :P What Americans call "college" Europeans call "university." Could say did not finish secondary, secondary, post-secondary, vocational. I also sent a mail to the list with post-secondary broken into undergrad/graduate, but I don't know how those translate. --

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

> I'm not a native speaker so its more a guess :) Maybe: - Secondary school / high school - Trade / vocational school - Some university - University - Post-university degree -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

k" instead of "per day" since there are a lot > of people who dont check their mails every day, more like once per week. How often do you check... __ Multiples times a day __ Daily __ Weekly __ Monthly -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

other > choise but to use separate polls in UbuntuForums. surveygizmo.com allows up to 250 respondents for free. And only people that finish the entire survey count toward the 250, so you don't lose out on those that quit halfway through. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstrick

Re: [Usability] New Menubars

x27;re talking about replacing a large swaths of GNOME with Javascript. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Usability mailing list Usab

Re: [Usability] [Fwd: [Bug 569668] Places menu shouldn't use non-Nautilus handler for bookmarked folders]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 6:56:38 am Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Hi, > > Op woensdag 04-03-2009 om 21:16 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Mackenzie > Morgan: > > > What if the user's default file manager isn't Nautilus? > > What if the sky were green and the

Re: [Usability] [Fwd: [Bug 569668] Places menu shouldn't use non-Nautilus handler for bookmarked folders]

menu, it should be opened with > Nautilus and not with some other application, regardless of the mime > association of folders. What if the user's default file manager isn't Nautilus? -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Descript

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

int, because your 30 open web pages would all be in one window, many of the titles visible simultaneously (unlike in window list), and without royally clogging up your alt+tab? -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] New Tab Widget

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:50 -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 00:10 +1100, Andy Owen wrote: > >> On a more related note, people seem to be fairly protective of vertical > >> resolution, so

Re: [Usability] New Tab Widget

3 screens can do either comfortably. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

eparate windows for drag-n-drop like Nautilus does. I like this. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usabi

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

ckup looks interesting to me, but I think I'd like to actually try it. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

from elsewhere into the tab bar. (Maybe the first step is to decide > whether this functionality is desirable?) I would want to be able to drop tabs from window to another to combine them. Pidgin does this. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo s

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

of-tab-bar button just confused people. They'd be asked to close the tab, look around a bit, glance at that button, dismiss it, look some more...etc. They've chosen to have "close" on a single tab close whatever file/site happens to be open at the time but keep the applicati

Re: [Usability] Trash observations

w versions of GNOME. In older ones ~/.Trash -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.o

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 01:31 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 19:09 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > > d

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

uot; item in the Preferences menu. It's for changing libnotify's colors, I think. That should also be merged into Appearances if it's part of GNOME. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signatu

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 15:00 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > First of all, I like the idea of pulseaudio, but currently it just > doesn't work on any of my systems, and no skype isn't the only reason, > but there are much more: > > 1 - recording doesn't work at all, don't remember exactly what was >

Re: [Usability] Fwd: New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

said, for people that use GNOME with other WM (Compiz is very common), I don't think it'd translate. I know it wouldn't translate for GNOME/Xmonad combination. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

ve titlebars. My preferred setup is GNOME+Xmonad. Even for people that use GNOME+Fluxbox, this'd be a problem, though. Or people using GNOME+Compiz who use Emerald instead of gtk-window-decorator. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

use "jump to beginning" and "jump to end" a lot (but in vim or Cream), but I don't think it's a good idea to use the tab-jumping shortcut for that. We should find a different one. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.a

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

that is Control+Tab/Control+Shift+Tab. > Why doesn't Gedit support that? ^Tab in GNOME is supposed to act like Tab for switching widgets in cases where tab would just insert a tab. Then again, I *guess* that could kind of fit into that category

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

. > > That's the point; with the increasing popularity of tabs in every > application, we should consider making it a standard keyboard > shortcut. That's why I started this thread... He just asked if, specifically, ctrl +t was already "taken" -- Mackenzie Morgan http

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

abs to hold currently open drafts would be *nice*... -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

ks in Metacity (one habit I didn't have to relearn from Windows). That's what I usually use. It's ctrl+q that gives me trouble when I try to ctrl+w and hit the wrong key. I need to stop doing that. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signa

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 05:34 -0500, Philip Ganchev wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... Tabs are becoming > > increasingly common in applications (even Nautilus has them now), so > > maybe this is something that sh

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:55 +0100, Guillaume Ardaud wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In Ubuntu, we recently had a bug filed about Gedit not using ctrl+t to > > open a new tab[1]. After consulting the HIG, we see that

[Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

is is something that should be standardized in the next HIG revision. Does standardizing ctrl+t for "new tab" sound like a good idea to anyone else? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/301942 -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo