Re: [Ayatana] HUD design ideas

2012-02-02 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Jimmy, ... On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:44 PM, topdownjimmy topdownji...@gmail.com wrote: ... When the HUD first appears, menu items could be displayed beneath the search box: |__| File Edit Tools Window Help This could probably help migration from menus but probably

Re: [Ayatana] HUD design ideas

2012-01-30 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Marco, how would the breadcrumb (Level 1 Level 2 Level 3) work? Best, chr On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Marco Kirchberger ma...@e-kirchberger.dewrote: Hi, yes I absolutely agree with you that is for 12.04 to radical but in generally with HUD you have the possibility. I think it is

Re: [Ayatana] Universal Access font size

2012-01-23 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Michael, we are aware of this. Please consider in this case the specs as non pixel perfect representation. We will tweak with the text sizes once the new layout is in place. Thanks, chr On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Michael Terry michael.te...@canonical.comwrote: Hello again! I'm

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

2011-11-20 Thread Christian Giordano
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: Hi Matthew, in your design, is the checkbox close to the application useful for having the application minimized (as Apple do)? I don't understand how you came to that conclusion. Maybe the design is unclear.

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

2011-11-19 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Matthew, in your design, is the checkbox close to the application useful for having the application minimized (as Apple do)? Said that, I have to agree with the comment from AllanDay, I am not sure why you would want a file selector considering that some applications (including browsers)

Re: [Ayatana] Unity Dash mockup

2011-11-19 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Andras, to maximize the Dash you would use just the top-left buttons? chr 2011/11/6 András Bognár bogandm...@gmail.com Hi, I don't really like the current Dash border, so I started working on a mockup (https://plus.google.com/104888645168610370479/posts/BoAcd3c2Ek1). Different

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Michal, Thumb should not appear until it is clickable/grabbable https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/870714 With the changes for 12.04, not sure if you have seen the videos, it will be easier for the user to know what the target area of his pointer movement is because the thumb will be

Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Giordano
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: Why? Why are they designed for a specific size, when that's against the Gnome HIG? That isn't true either. The HIG says that toolboxes should be resizable, that alerts shouldn't be, and that progress windows

Re: [Ayatana] Ayatana dev list - attitude

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Giordano
I very appreciate the spirit of this post, more data is always welcome! ;) It would be good, though, if we could have better data. Opt-in mechanisms unfortunately compromise quite a lot the data, not everyone, or more importantly not every kind of person, would make their voice heard. It has been

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-11-17 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi guys, On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Stefanos A. stapos...@gmail.com wrote: Two things I'd love to see improved (over the 12.04 video): (a) as, the OP suggests, hide the arrows quicker when the mouse moves away. This solves the resize vs scroll issue, and makes the GUI feel faster to

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-11-17 Thread Christian Giordano
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM, SorinN nemes.so...@gmail.com wrote: Normal desktop user ? No one think about ? It is not just about saving screen real-estate but also to remove chrome/clutter. Best, chr ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Balsamiq

2011-09-05 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Andrea, as you can imagine, sharing a serial publicly online is not the brightest thing to do. Balsamiq provides serial if you work on an open-source project. Unfortunately, I don't think they are willing to provide it to anyone who wants to contribute sporadically to a project, hence not

Re: [Ayatana] Is there any way to increase the size of overlay scrollbars?

2011-09-05 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Jo, which size precisely? Are you referring to the draggable area? We call it thumb. Also, could you give me more information about your laptop display? Cheers, chr On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com wrote: On my laptop, I think it's a little

Re: [Ayatana] Overlay scrollbars

2011-04-23 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Marco, on touch interfaces, to drag, you are supposed interact directly with the page content. You are not supposed to see the thumb, and hence interact with it. Best, chr On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Marco Rofei marco.ro...@gmail.com wrote: New scroll bars look and behaviour as it is

Re: [Ayatana] Launcher DnD - import applications on DnD start

2011-02-21 Thread Christian Giordano
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Neil Jagdish Patel neil.pa...@canonical.com wrote: I guess you could argue about where it would stop, +1 I think the important is to show clearly that those new tiles are very special ones, not running, not favorites. Seems to add complexity. chr

Re: [Ayatana] fileless paradigm

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Giordano
Sorry guys if I am a bit late on this, and didn't really follow all the discussion, I just wanted to throw on the table a project by some fellows which might be related and of interest: http://itsme.it/project/ http://itsme.it/project/Best, chr On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Felipe Erias

Re: [Ayatana] More complete Applications view

2010-12-07 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Vincent, thanks a lot for sharing your idea! The home of the Dash can definitely be a good place for more sophisticated activity launchers and for surfacing content in general. We are exploring different possibilities around this, so it's great to see that people here are liking it that much!

Re: [Ayatana] Usability Resources

2010-11-19 Thread Christian Giordano
There are books which talk about theory (ie. standard design patters or Cognitive Psychology), but because the user approach to software is continuously evolving, and there are always new problems to solve, common sense, sensibility (noticing the current solutions which work well) and a very good

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi David, This is an interesting corner case, thanks for pointing it out, could you tell me some applications which are meant to be working in this way? I guess in this case we could handle it via quick menu, just a thought. For example, Firefox. My mom used to have a panel launcher that she

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-04 Thread Christian Giordano
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Christian Giordano christian.giord...@canonical.com wrote: Hi David, This is an interesting corner case, thanks for pointing it out, could you tell me some applications which are meant to be working in this way? I guess in this case we could handle it via

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-02 Thread Christian Giordano
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, David Prieto frandavid...@gmail.com wrote: Consider that a user without a touch screen wouldn't even notice that the second method exists, since the spread would be there as soon as he hovered his cursor over the icon, without having to keep it pressed. I

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-02 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi David, I'm not sure we're understanding each other here. When you mention expose there, are you talking about the same expose effect Unity does now when you click the workspace switcher? Or about the desktop spread I was proposing? I mean expose like Compiz/MacOS expose, what Unity does

Re: [Ayatana] How to handle multi-window launcher icons

2010-11-01 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi David, can you state a precise use case when this would be useful? Personally I think that showing the windows on mouse over is a bit heavy (on your mock-up the application name is also missing). Being based on over makes it not much touch friendly as well. I wonder if this problem can be

Re: [Ayatana] Alt+Tab in unity?

2010-10-31 Thread Christian Giordano
I think I can confirm you that there will be alt-tab. Best, chr On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Daniel Silva raditz...@yahoo.com wrote: Will Unity have Alt+Tab support? The version I'm using doesn't have it, and it is quite an handy thing. ___

Re: [Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources

2010-10-15 Thread Christian Giordano
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:21 PM, zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Learn about design - since Canonical now has a group of talented designers it would be nice if they could share (preferably freely available material) their recommendations on books dealing with design, blogs of designers

Re: [Ayatana] Put a resize widget in the title bar

2010-10-13 Thread Christian Giordano
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: That was what twm did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm#Using_twm The problem is that practically every program assumes that it's resized at a lower corner, not an upper corner. For example, if you enlarge a Web

Re: [Ayatana] Idea: windicator add-ons, an extensible window border

2010-06-11 Thread Christian Giordano
So you would mainly create this API for final users for the file system or also for the global menu? I am just a bit concerned that there will be too many windicators (with consequentially too similar icons). The operations you can do with files in the filesystem can be so many. I like