Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:08, Stefanos A. stapos...@gmail.com wrote: Matthew, I love your idea. With little twist: loving the idea, too. i wouldn't make it that humble tho, proper fields, perhaps the size of browser tabs, would make sense to me for each menu ( View, Go, Edit ...) -

Re: [Ayatana] Search in Nautilus needs a minor improvement

2011-06-17 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hi Jariath, On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:26, Jarlath Reidy jarlathre...@gmail.com wrote: To quote myself on the forums here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1783813 I want to search for a file and I don't know which of my hard disks it is on. So in Nautilus, I choose the 'Computer'

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: But obviously our interaction hardware is aiming at immediacy, correspondence, rather than symbolic crypticism or text-driven menu-isms. I can only guess you must be referring to (multi-)touch surfaces. But that's an addition, not a

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: But obviously our interaction hardware is aiming at immediacy, correspondence, rather than symbolic crypticism or text-driven menu-isms. I can only guess you must

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:43, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: But obviously our interaction hardware is aiming at immediacy,

Re: [Ayatana] Search in Nautilus needs a minor improvement

2011-06-17 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 16 June 2011 19:26, Jarlath Reidy jarlathre...@gmail.com wrote: So in Nautilus, I choose the 'Computer' icon from the toolbar and search from there. But it seem that from this view you can only search for the 'presence' of drives, i.e. find their icons. By the way, you ought to try Nautilus

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread Joost Verdoorn
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:43 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 06/17/2011 11:14 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: But obviously our interaction hardware is aiming at immediacy,

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread S. Christian Collins
...or at the very least to be able to disable global menus for non-maximized applications and to disable the menu hiding. -~Chris On 06/16/2011 05:51 PM, Ralph Green wrote: Howdy, OK, Is there going to be some easy way to turn off the global menu? It is already clear to me that I would

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Bassett
On 16/06/11 22:17, Matthew Bassett wrote: On 15/06/11 21:28, Matthew Bassett wrote: [some stuff deleted] 1) to not activate menu drop downs until mouse-up (so you can grab the the menu bar/title bar without issue and drag the menu around), or 2) only make the menu appear when you mouse

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Bassett
On 17/06/11 12:06, Adrian Maier wrote: Hiding the menu seems to be considered by some people eye-pleasing , but it breaks productivity. It's irritating to click on something that is_not_yet_visible_until_you_reach_there . I understand your concern; I think this something that someone (!)

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Bassett
On 17/06/11 14:10, Joost Verdoorn wrote: A beautiful example of a menu button: http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TdFlT_A0vxI/Eco/lWRn14SImeo/s500/mockups%20menu-experiments%20eog-menu-experiments.png

[Ayatana] Discover-ability / Desktop tips

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Bassett
I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the archives of this mailing list, but... There are many features of Unity (and also Gnome-shell) that are different from previous desktops and in that sense non-obvious. Would it make sense to have a 'tips' application

[Ayatana] Discover-ability / Desktop tips

2011-06-17 Thread cmaglothin
I have seen this brought up before here, but never has anyone mentioned the way that Android does it. Android uses a simple widget that throws up little helpful hints in a non intrusive way of getting you started. On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Matthew Bassett li...@mbassett.net wrote: I

Re: [Ayatana] Discover-ability / Desktop tips

2011-06-17 Thread Ed Lin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Matthew Bassett li...@mbassett.net wrote: I hope I am not raising something that has already been addressed in the archives of this mailing list, but... A few links: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/welcome-window