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

2010-07-31 Thread Ryan Peters
ton like they are on Chrome as well (at the very least it can be easily done with an add-on). tl;dr The GNOME Shell Application Menu is what should be utilized instead of mimicking Windows for the sake of being "shiny" or "familiar&quo

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

2010-08-06 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/06/2010 06:17 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 30/07/10 21:05: ... GNOME 3 comes out next year. With it comes many new technologies including the Application Menu, a message tray for

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 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&#

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

2010-08-07 Thread Ryan Peters
t of vertical space. As an option, the Firefox Button might work, but only for the users that explicitly enable it. By default, being consistent with GNOME, using the standard menu bar and Application Menu of GNOME Shell when it detects it is the best solution, from my point of view.     - Ryan Peters ___ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

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

2010-08-09 Thread Ryan Peters
On 08/09/2010 05:56 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Peters wrote on 07/08/10 20:12: On 08/07/2010 08:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ... In this scenario someone is using (for example) Calculator, Banshee, Empathy, Gmail, Amazon, CNN

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

2010-08-11 Thread Ryan Peters
) Regards, Allan http://google.com/profiles/AllanCaeg +63 927 982 0592 On Aug 10, 2010 2:05 AM, "Martin Owens" mailto:docto...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Ryan, > > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 11:22 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote: >> While br

Re: [Usability] Annoying systray icons animation

2011-05-05 Thread Ryan Peters
On 05/05/2011 02:24 AM, Mantas wrote: Hi, I have a suggestion about systray, that appears on bottom right. When you move mouse cursor from left to right, icon that you want to click just jumps to left, and I'm forced to move mouse cursor to left again, to catch icon I want. My suggestion would

Re: [Usability] Too much distraction-free computing

2011-05-07 Thread Ryan Peters
On 05/07/2011 10:43 AM, Ryan Peters wrote: On 05/07/2011 10:08 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: 2. super fast application access Ok, there is top-left corner and dash, but it requires a lot of mouse movements and screen redrawing, to reach an app, that you want, and it is totally not superfast. You