Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal: select the text and search the selected text in google

2007-11-12 Thread Archie Anderson
Yves-Gwenael Bourhis wrote: > Le vendredi 2 novembre 2007, Ross Burton a écrit : > >> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:16 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: >> >>> Actually I think it would be more useful to be able to >>> drag text from gnome-terminal and drop it onto a panel >>> applet that did a search

Re: [Usability] selecting with shift, ctrl; using shift to select on desktop.

2008-01-02 Thread Archie Anderson
I'm not sure I understand what you mean... for "real-time" multiple selection there's click-and-hold, and ctrl-click (imo) obviously needs the user to click several times since it selects nonadjacent items, how else do you determine what to select? Or am I way off mark? On 1/1/08, Jacob Beauregard

[Usability] Fwd: Usability idea.

2008-01-03 Thread Archie Anderson
I know what you mean. MS Office is already implementing this, would be sweet if Gnome could do it by default. On 1/3/08, Franco Kloster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > This is my first time in this mailing list. > I'm from Argentina and I would like to send an idea I have. > > Here is

Re: [Usability] selecting with shift, ctrl; using shift to select on desktop.

2008-01-03 Thread Archie Anderson
. This way you can rubber band, in essence, without being > constrained to the rectangle. > > I think > > Kirk > > > Archie Anderson wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean... for "real-time" multiple > > selection there's click-

Re: [Usability] Usability idea.

2008-01-03 Thread Archie Anderson
It's not an enitrely new idea, but it's not in Gnome yet (afaik) so it's still worth bringing up! On 1/3/08, Franco Kloster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, it isn't a new idea :( > > I didn't know that MS Office implemented that. > > > 2008

[Usability] Sticky notes quickie

2008-01-04 Thread Archie Anderson
Am I the only one who finds the controls of the sticky notes applet counterintuitive? Here's how I'd imagine it: - the panel icon has a little arrow next to it - clicking the icon opens a new note - clicking the little arrow opens a list with the titles of notes you've created so far - this list

[Usability] Sticky notes quickie

2008-01-05 Thread Archie Anderson
(sorry if this is duplicate, not sure if the first one went through) Am I the only one who finds the controls of the sticky notes applet counterintuitive? Here's how I'd imagine it: - the panel icon has a little arrow next to it - clicking the icon opens a new note - clicking the little arrow op

[Usability] Save dialog box

2008-01-22 Thread Archie Anderson
Hey guys, The latest thread reminded me of this little irk I have. When I go to save a document and the dialog box comes up, the filename "Untitled document" (or spreadsheet or whatever) is highlighted. However, if I start typing, instead of editing the filename as I myself would naturally expect,

Re: [Usability] Save dialog box

2008-01-23 Thread Archie Anderson
readsheets... have the > same problem or is it just open office? > > On Jan 22, 2008 7:03 PM, Archie Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > The latest thread reminded me of this little irk I have. When I go to > save a > > docum

Re: [Usability] Save dialog box

2008-01-23 Thread Archie Anderson
Yep, it's metacity. And the focus always gets stolen, no matter what name I put in. On Jan 23, 2008 5:56 PM, Dokuro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if it is ubuntu, then metacity > > On Jan 23, 2008 12:45 PM, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2

Re: [Usability] Fwd: Focus stolen by search box when opening a "Save As" dialog

2008-02-12 Thread Archie Anderson
Yeah, I submitted a bug report about that... if you want i can (try to) dig up the reference number. On Feb 12, 2008 2:55 AM, Aaron Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > Does anyone know the developer to contact with this? I'd like to help out > fixing it. > > Aaron > > --