Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 28.03.2012 14:11, Fania Bremmer wrote: * change title to Activity Settings (settings being less tech than configuration and shorter, at least in english; use title capitalization) +1. I would even prefer a title that integrates a verb, like edit activity. But that's a wording question. I

Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Fania Bremmer
* change Lock as private to just Private. the phrase Lock as private is a bit awkward (it is not a natural phrasing one would use in conversation) and specifying Lock speaks to the mechanism rather than the intention of the user. the intention is this is private; the mechanism we use is

Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 28.03.2012 14:37, Fania Bremmer wrote: I don't really like Lock as private, but if that's the one that fared best with the users, I think we should still keep it. Don't know what it looks like if it's placed next to the name, though. Might make the row a bit too long. Keep in mind that we

Re: About Plasma Active

2012-03-28 Thread Fania Bremmer
Hi Dean, Yes, sure, we could do an interview. I am working on the User Interface Design side of things, so if the Interaction Part is interesting as well, I could contribute that part. Regards, Fania Am 27.03.2012 17:06, schrieb Dean Howell: Plasma Active Team, We at The Powerbase

Re: About Plasma Active

2012-03-28 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 27 March 2012, Dean Howell wrote: Plasma Active Team, We at The Powerbase http://www.thepowerbase.com are probably the most excited blog on the Internet when it comes to Vivaldi, Plasma-Active and everything related to it. We want to bring some attention to the core team and

Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Lamarque V. Souza
Em Wednesday 28 March 2012, Marco Martin escreveu: On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: Ah, I see. So what is the internal, technical workflow for switching an activity to private (everything that happens from the point where the user taps Save in the Activity configuration

Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Fania Bremmer
Am 28.03.2012 17:27, schrieb Ivan Čukić: instant apply is really not a possibility here for technical reasons. we can get rid of the Close button though by making an outside tap close and cancel the dialog. Okay okay, so no instant apply. But can we still open the password setting dialog

Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Ivan Čukić
Sorry, but that comment just made me laugh: we would write why it can not be like that; that shouldnt be the focus in a multi-disciplinary team, that designers propose something and the techies just say no, not working. Honestly, I don't see anything amusing there. If a designer asks for

Re: activity configuration UI

2012-03-28 Thread Ivan Čukić
we would write why it can not be like that. the key word being 'why' - reason for not implementing something, since we are devels, the reason usually is technical. I know, I need to be less zen and more verbose sometimes :) Whenever UX people write something, the developers always say that

Mentors for GSoC project

2012-03-28 Thread Arjun Basu
Hello , I am Arjun (ultimatrix on irc) .This is a follow up to the mail I posted some days back. I was looking for a mentor who could guide me on the project Write a QML based client to GHNS(Get Hot New Stuff) . My earlier mentor can't mentor me anymore on account of being overloaded with