Re: [Usability] Gnome's biggest failure. By far. Stone-cold evil.

2009-09-01 Thread John at Darkstar
A fix? Nice! :D I'm impressed what you make, just had to say so! John Anton Kerezov wrote: > I thought that this issue is fixed: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/44082 > > And fix will be coming upstream in Karmic. > ___ > Anton Kerezov > ankere.wo

[Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-01 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Preface Recently, there was an interesting discussion concerning desktop standards and usability. Russian-speaking people can read it here: http://aceler.livejournal.com/771037.html I think, the list of discussed issues and conclusions is worth publishing on xdg maillist, so here I am doing my be

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-01 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 14:47 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > 5. Global hotkeys are controlled in several places. > > GNOME apps tend to start gnome-settings-daemon (otherwise they look > weird). And g-s-d may grab some shortcuts. If it happens in KDE, the > results may be unpredictable - two sets

Re: [Usability] Gnome's biggest failure. By far. Stone-cold evil.

2009-09-01 Thread Jacob Beauregard
I haven't looked at the patch, but the way its described, it sounds like there will still be a lot of holes to fill. Saving position of panel applets between different resolutions. At first it sounds like it can only screw up once per resolution change, though it definitely handles the most fre

Re: [Usability] Gnome's biggest failure. By far. Stone-cold evil.

2009-09-01 Thread Jim March
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jacob Beauregard wrote: > I haven't looked at the patch, but the way its described, it sounds like > there will still be a lot of holes to fill. > Saving position of panel applets between different resolutions. > > At first it sounds like it can only screw up once pe