On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:22:06 -0500, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally I think some time thinking through which prefs exist, and
> whether they can be moved outside the control center, would be a lot
> more valuable than continuing to try and bandaid the "too many prefs"
> p
Hi Ryan,
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:19:52 -0700, Ryan McDougall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a slightly more proof-read version of what I have already sent
> to desktop-devel
>
> Proposal to Add Grouping to Metacity, and some Rationale
wm-spec-list is not a gnome-specific mailing list, and t
Hi,
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:12:31 +0100, Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I right click on the button of a window in the gnome panel (taskbar)
> I see the following menu items
>
> Minimize
> Maximize
> Roll Up
> Move
> Resize
> ---
> Close
> ---
> Put On All Workspaces
You're
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:12:54 +0100, Maurizio Colucci
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I apologize in advance for the cross-post but it seems adequate here, as this
> proposal involves users and developers.
Hi,
Usability isn't the correct list for such a proposal. Others have
asked
On 8/25/05, Vidar Braut Haarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 17. Mom opens Thunderbird to send some e-mails. She minimizes
> Thunderbird, locates a document and drags it to the trash to delete
> it. After she has done this, she accidentally clicks again just to the
> left of the trash, changing to D
On 8/26/05, Vidar Braut Haarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/26/05, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 18. Having all his applications on one desktop, he now starts to drag
> > > the windows to the Workspace Switcher to drop them on other desktop
On 10/14/05, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Raising Windows
> >
> > no idea
>
> There is a feature request for this on bugzilla already, and code was
> written [1].
That particular solution doesn't sit well with me since it
intentionally breaks some stuff (which Gregory doesn't
On 10/17/05, Tuomas Kuosmanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 22:31 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > (Not) Raising Windows (on DND)
> >
> > no idea
>
> This might actually be a good thing - we'd need to ponder this a bit of
> course to make sure we dont miss some other issue this
On 10/18/05, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Raising Windows
> >
> > no idea
>
> If one drags an object, and hovers over the destination window in the
> window chooser applet thingy then that window will be raised to the
> top, allowing dropping of said object in newly raised window.
That's
On 12/23/05, Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:32:16PM +0100, Tomasz
> > Janowitz wrote:
> > > I have a question regarding gnome-terminal
> > shortcuts, namely: what are the
> > > 'shift's standing for ? Would
On 2/13/06, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:19 +, Calum Benson wrote:
>
> > Would that suit everyone?
>
> Paolo's just asked if we can do gedit on Friday instead, so new proposal
> is:
>
> > Monday 1700 : sound-juicer (happening now!)
> > Tuesday 1700 : gnome
On 3/16/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also if we are so worried about users accidentally closing windows and if
> it is as dangerous as others claim why is a non-destructive action like
> Maximize put right beside the close button?
Because putting a destructive button next to the mo
On 3/23/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since Dobey says the button label was changed to 'Finish' after user
> testing I'm not inclined to disagree with the nice people at Novell (but
> if you really wanted to nit-pick you could ask about how the testing was
> conducted, if the sample
On 3/23/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dont recall the earlier versions including a Finish button either.
Right. Depending on what you mean by 'earlier versions', but making
my best guess at it, those versions didn't include a finish button.
Rodney changed the dialog to not be in
On 3/24/06, Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>
> > > Consistency is good.
> >
> > Consistency is good. But what is consistent is arguable, and usability
> > should take precedence.
>
> No, the two must go hand in hand.
Telling developers (Rodn
On 3/24/06, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Discussing further isn't going to change it either. ;-)
Just to clarify...it won't change it for 2.14, as it has already been
released. We can of course start fixing things now for 2.15 since we
are no longer stuck in an
On 5/1/06, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've noticed that the gnome 2.14 window list panel thingy now sorts
the list of windows alphabetically instead of (previously) in some
other order, I think creation date.
Mapping order, yes...and it is still the order used; I have no idea
why
On 5/1/06, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:22 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've noticed that the gnome 2.14 window list panel thingy now sorts
> > the list of windows alpha
On 5/2/06, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:29 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:22 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > Mapping order, yes...and it is still
On 5/2/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Having said all that, I don't understand why the Theme Preferences
window is not a dialog and is resizable, but doesn't become maximizable
automatically. That looks like too much flexibility in Metacity.
There's code in metacity that tu
On 5/3/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 3, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 5/2/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Having said all that, I don't understand why the Theme Preferences
>> window is not a d
On 5/4/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems that the wm-spec's definition of a utility window is vastly
different from the HIG's definition of a utility window. What the
wm-spec calls a utility window, the HIG calls a "toolbox", though
that's not an ideal name either -- the
On 5/4/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The techincal window manager aspects of this issues strike me as a
different problem. It seems to be trying to fit the different window
types into predefined categories which seems like a tough task to solve
for everything.
Well, an always ongo
On 5/4/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But the four things I want to do most often with a splash screen are
(1) minimize it ("get out of my way!"), (2) move it ("get out of my
way!"), (3) return it to the front ("... wait, did that say
OpenOffice.org 1.1? I thought I'd launched
On 05 May 2006 16:41:37 +0200, Soeren Sandmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Elijah Newren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> compositor will need to do special things with them. If his proposal
> becomes part of the spec (looks likely) then tooltips will have a type
>
On 6/7/06, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it is common to use C-PageUp and C-PageDown to move between
tabs (for example, Galeon). Is this true?
Also used by Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany, X-Chat, and gnome-terminal,
at least. I was planning on adding a keybinding based off it
(C-A
On 8/20/06, Martin Ejdestig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This gets especially annoying if the application issues some dialogs
> > before it actually starts (like galeon after-crash dialog, which I see
> > quite regularly by the way) and the application doesn't appear, so
> > I have to go through
On 8/21/06, Martin Ejdestig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 21:18 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > It is almost as likely to be a bug in the application launcher as it
> > is in the application itself. If the application is not launched with
> > start
On 8/21/06, GSR - FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2006-08-21 at 0954.18 -0600):
> > > That it doesn't work when launched from a terminal and custom launchers
> > > where StartupNotify=true is left out can be quite confusing. Is there a
> > > reason why there ain't a functio
On 9/8/06, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The HIG says (implicitly) dialogs shouldn't have a maximize button.
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-dialog.html
>
> > Window Commands: Minimize, Roll-up/Unroll
Also worth noting is http://live.gnome.org/
On 9/12/06, Maurizio Colucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if I enable sticky keys (control panel -> keyboard -> accessibility), I
> loose the ability to ALT-TAB (unless, of course, I keep ALT pressed, which
> defeats the purpose of using sticky keys). Is there any way to switch the
> act
On 9/12/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would expect it to work with just one press of Alt. That is the way it
> works on MS Windows and I think it is convenient. Is there any reason
> that it should be harder on GNOME?
If I am not mistaken, GNOME currently behaves exactly like
On 9/30/06, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A bug was filed over a year ago (
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654 ). The author of
> gnome-screensaver responded with:
>
> "I don't have any plans to support this. My view is that any
> screensaver theme that requires conf
On 10/5/06, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know I've come to this party too late, but just FYI, http://
> bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102656 discussed this possibility
> (and eventually came to the same conclusion as this thread-- that you
> could do it by using Sticky Keys lock
On 5/22/07, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Another thing I'd like to mention for window preferences, are titlebar
> > preferences. I use KDE on my laptop and this is probably the biggest reason,
> > the ability to modify the title bar is very important to me when I'm using a
> > touchp
On 5/22/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (I've rearranged them for myself, because having the close button right
> next to the others is stupid. But I think that's an argument for having
> a better default arrangement, not for making the customization easier.)
I imagine this is
Hi,
On Nov 28, 2007 4:23 PM, Hans Petter Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was told by one user that the way he worked around this was by going
> to the control panel, choosing a smaller font temporarily, moving the
> window, then setting the big font again. Of course, he was very happy to
>
On Nov 29, 2007 5:14 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also interestingly, when you view the menu with alt+space the Move option
> doesn't list the Alt+F7 keyboard shortcut. That hinders discoverability a
> bit. Thanks for the tip, I've wished for this before.
Um, it does here. What
On Nov 29, 2007 4:47 PM, 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+
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 telling me about that now.
And you'll note that they ke
On Nov 30, 2007 4:51 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> > ...
> > Which made me wonder if there's a more discoverable way of moving
> > windows around when they're too big/partially off-screen.
> > ...
>
> Sure there is. M
On Nov 29, 2007 8:00 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2.2.20 I think. I guess I'm not confident on how to tell what window manager
> I'm using. Metacity or compiz fusion, since I've not done anything to change
> that. It's Ubuntu 7.10 with effects enabled.
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