Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Dylan McCall wrote: > ... > I am thinking of Gnome-Terminal not just as any terminal, but as the > default terminal; the terminal we generally anticipate people to be > using when they are new to the GNOME desktop; I am not thinking of it > as a power-user terminal, f

Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Dec 5, 2007 4:45 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having preferences profiles strikes me as very unnecessary here. Don't > > get me wrong, I see the benefit of changing some behaviours of the > > terminal for certain uses, but "most users" (assuming the average > > user, s

Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Brad Taylor
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:00 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 4:45 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having preferences profiles strikes me as very unnecessary > here. Don't > > get me wrong, I see the benefit of changing some behaviours >

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-12-05 Thread Kristian Lyngstøl
On Nov 30, 2007 12:21 AM, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28 Nov 2007, at 23:23, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > > IF window is focused AND > >pointer is pushing against the edge of the screen AND > >window has area off that edge of the screen AND > >user is not dragging > > T

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-12-05 Thread Kristian Lyngstøl
On Nov 30, 2007 12:47 AM, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a related note, enhancing metacity's window movement behavior from > the keyboard would be really nice. If you press Alt+F7 to move a > window, you can move it all over the screen using the arrow keys. But, > if you press Alt

Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/12/5, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Usability people! > > I am thinking of Gnome-Terminal not just as any terminal, but as the default > terminal; the terminal we generally anticipate people to be using when they > are new to the GNOME desktop; I am not thinking of it as a power-us

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-12-05 Thread Calum Benson
On 30 Nov 2007, at 14:10, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 9:09 PM, Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> They don't show up when using Compiz. Which is odd, because that menu >> comes from libmetacity/wnck (can't remember which right now). > > libwnck. Yes, I remember Dan and David

[Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Dylan McCall
Hello Usability people! I am thinking of Gnome-Terminal not just as any terminal, but as the default terminal; the terminal we generally anticipate people to be using when they are new to the GNOME desktop; I am *not *thinking of it as* *a power-user terminal, for which Profiles have many reasons

Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Dylan McCall
Another thought that suits both needs would be to rearrange the workflow; to reduce the prominence of Profiles to those who don't need them while keeping them there for those who do. Instead of having to choose a profile and edit it, the Preferences could be directly accessible via the menu (as usu

Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:11 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote: > Instead of having to choose a profile and edit it, the Preferences > could be directly accessible via the menu (as usual), and that would > be the same as editing the current profile That's already the case. I was surprised that there wasn'