Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 06/08/10 17:15: > > On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >... >> What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled "Calculator" >> when doing a calculation, "Banshee" when you're playing music, and >> "Empathy" w

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Jean-Peer Lorenz
After reading lots of usability discussions here I feel impelled to give my 2 cents to the ongoing discussion. I am a quite experienced user and have experimented a lot with desktop themes, button order, compiz settings etc. to find my most efficient desktop. Moreover, I've tried a lot of distribut

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Remco
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee, > Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN, Farmville, the Gundam AnimeSuki Forum, and > Hulu respectively. That they are using Firefox for 70% of these things > does not mean it is u

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 09:56 AM, Remco wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee, Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN, Farmville, the Gundam AnimeSuki Forum, and Hulu respectively. That

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas > >... > >> What sense does it make to have a menu that's labelled "Calculator" > >> when doing a calculation, "Banshee" when you're playing music, and > >> "Empathy" when you're chatting with friends -- but "Firefox" when > >> you're writing

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 06/08/10 17:15: On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... What sense does it make to have a menu that's lab

Re: [Usability] HIG v3 Update

2010-08-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, I wonder whether the Accessibility team takes part on the effort to create the HIG3. In fact, there are for example users that can only interact with the computer by using a keyboard or others thay can only use the pointer...(to only name a few) Integrating such consideration directly int

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... Or to put it another way: The Gnome Shell application menu mimicks the Mac OS X application menu almost exactly. It may seem "shiny" or "familiar" to those designers who use a Mac, but it is o