Re: [Ayatana] complaints

2012-01-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 31 January 2012 10:32, Pedro Bessa pedbe...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox goes the add-on way while Ubuntu goes the built-in way. How about the Google Chrome / Chromium way? Chrome has pretty close to the same market share as Firefox now so they must be doing something right. Jeremy

Re: [Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 24 January 2012 11:10, Michael Terry michael.te...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue 24 Jan 2012 10:52:43 EST, John Lea wrote: Top bar is the term we have been using, it used to be Panel but this was a hangover from the Gnome2 days. mpt says menu bar so can you two hug it out and decide which

Re: [Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 13 January 2012 04:34, Michael Terry michael.te...@canonical.com wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 10:29:41 CET, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The menu bar, lower case, separate words. Hrm.  I'm at a Rally with some other design folks, and talked to them yesterday about this question.  They said

Re: [Ayatana] Unity improvement for vision loss people

2012-01-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 11 January 2012 18:27, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Removing all but one color from an icon by default is a bad idea, unless the icon is supposed to be that way. Even these exceptions should be kept to a minimum. The issue that arises is that there are two main

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

2011-10-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 20 October 2011 11:34, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: I'd appreciate your feedback on the design. https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/LoginItems I like porting Nautilus's Open with Other Application chooser to the Login Items screen. The current Add button in Startup

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-17 Thread Jeremy Bicha
to change your font size. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Dash search vs Alt+F2 in 11.10

2011-09-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 28 September 2011 07:48, Eylem Koca eylemk...@gmail.com wrote: It may sound off-topic, but it's related I think: Up until Beta 2 was released, I had this bug (I don't know if it's fixed, as I had to do  a clean install on my laptop and didn't have time to install Beta 2 yet). When I

Re: [Ayatana] Dash search vs Alt+F2 in 11.10

2011-09-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 28 September 2011 15:52, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com wrote: No, that is not true. If you have the Dash open, then you can press alt+f2 to switch to the normal alt+f2 view. Contrary, if you've pressed alt+f2, but should've pressed super, you can just press tab. This makes

Re: [Ayatana] Dash search vs Alt+F2 in 11.10

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 26 September 2011 18:54, Evan Huus eapa...@gmail.com wrote: I use it regularly to kill or restart processes using the killall command, which allows you to specifiy a name rather than a PID. I also use it to spawn firefox with different -P profile options for testing add-ons. Neither of the

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-session/use-title-case into lp:indicator-session

2011-09-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Jeremy Bicha has proposed merging lp:~jbicha/indicator-session/use-title-case into lp:indicator-session. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-session/use-title-case/+merge/75745 I

Re: [Ayatana] New mockups for theme selector (ubuntu 12.04 )

2011-09-08 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 8 September 2011 09:05, James Gifford ja...@jamesrgifford.com wrote: Keep in mind that this is a GNOME program we're talking about here - gnome-appearance-properties. So this might not be suited for Ayatana, you might want to consider presenting this to the folks over at gnome. Actually,

Re: [Ayatana] New mockups for theme selector (ubuntu 12.04 )

2011-09-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
was allowed in the old Appearances dialog)? I suggest that users who want to do extensive theme mixing and matching use gnome-tweak-tool (which, by the way, welcomes contributions). Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Applications

2011-09-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 5 September 2011 20:36, Jonathan Meek shrouded.cl...@gmail.com wrote: As things currently stand, if you want an application in Ubuntu you go to the software center and browse the myriad applications available. Of these, MANY are what I would dub 'legacy' applications (my word, don't focus

Re: [Ayatana] Regressions in Unity for 11.10?

2011-09-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 31 August 2011 11:08, Omer Akram oak...@gnome.org wrote: At the moment is does indeed look weird with the colored buttons, the minimize button is supposed to be dimmed out and not clickable, close should close and maximize button should toggle between the states of the dash i.e.

Re: [Ayatana] Hybrid (panel/launcher) top left corner button

2011-08-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 30 August 2011 22:21, André Oliva gandreol...@gmail.com wrote: I think that _the design_ of Unity for desktops was that of Natty. Then, there was a feature freeze for Oneric, and for some reason there was some kind of panic. But the points that bothers me is that if the design was fixed,

Re: [Ayatana] Making menus easier to find

2011-08-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 29 August 2011 03:06, Stefanos A. stapos...@gmail.com wrote: This is Firefox's problem, not ours. The same information is available on the address bar and the tab text - i.e. Firefox *triplicates* this information. I don't think Unity should focus on the design issues of 3rd-party apps

Re: [Ayatana] Making menus easier to find

2011-08-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 29 August 2011 03:06, Stefanos A. stapos...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/29 Stefanos A. stapos...@gmail.com Some food for thought on restored window menus. Your prototype looks similar to what GNOME Shell is doing. When clicked, an appmenu is revealed which is fairly similar to Unity quicklists

Re: [Ayatana] Making menus easier to find

2011-08-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
is that window titles can often be very long and not everyone has a large screen like you do. Personally I have a 1280x800 screen but we also want to support 1024x600 screens. Try uninstalling indicator-appmenu* if you want traditional always visible menus. Jeremy Bicha

Re: [Ayatana] Making menus easier to find

2011-08-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 28 August 2011 21:53, Apoorva Sharma appi2...@gmail.com wrote: I would be curious to see what it would feel like to have the items switched by default. In such a scenario, only the App Name would be visible on the panel, and the menus would be visible by default. Upon mouseover of the app

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-datetime/replace-deprecated-ui into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-08-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Jeremy Bicha has proposed merging lp:~jbicha/indicator-datetime/replace-deprecated-ui into lp:indicator-datetime. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-datetime/replace-deprecated-ui

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-session/add-user-accounts-link into lp:indicator-session

2011-08-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Thanks mpt. I've updated my patch to current trunk. -- https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-session/add-user-accounts-link/+merge/70619 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:indicator-session. ___ Mailing list:

[Ayatana] Help button needs to be more prominent

2011-08-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
on bug 778289? http://pad.lv/778289 Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-datetime/spell-out-and into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-08-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Jeremy Bicha has proposed merging lp:~jbicha/indicator-datetime/spell-out-and into lp:indicator-datetime. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-datetime/spell-out-and/+merge/70604

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-session/add-account-settings into lp:indicator-session

2011-08-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Jeremy Bicha has proposed merging lp:~jbicha/indicator-session/add-account-settings into lp:indicator-session. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-session/add-account-settings/+merge

Re: [Ayatana] the Device User Menu concept should be Scraped

2011-08-02 Thread Jeremy Bicha
is not our enemy. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Ayatana] Comments on the Device User Menu specs

2011-08-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
://i.imgur.com/Fcjd1.png Thanks for the chance to comment. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

[Ayatana] Comments on the Device User Menu specs

2011-08-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
by Gnome this cycle). However, definitely very useful would be a My Account button which enables users to easily set their password, account picture, language, or add another account. Here's another Gnome Shell screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Fcjd1.png Thanks for the chance to comment. Jeremy Bicha

Re: [Ayatana] Oneiric Unified Messaging Menu

2011-07-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
menu is still there. indicator-me is gone but next to the session menu is a menu headlined by the current logged in nickname. You can click this menu to switch to a new user or configure the new Online Accounts feature. Several of the menus including this one are not yet final designs. Jeremy Bicha

Re: [Ayatana] Oneiric customization

2011-07-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
open System Settings and Background should be the first option. (Off topic, I really like how the built-in search is smart enough to know synonyms: typing in wallpaper still gives you the Background control panel applet.) Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list

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

2011-06-17 Thread Jeremy Bicha
a design bug, you ought to be using at least the latest stable version of the software, if not the development version. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu welcome center

2011-05-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
the guide is shipped on the CD, we can't go overboard with images but we can definitely add more if they make the content easier to understand and more useful. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Shortcuts needed for putting keyboard focus onto Status Menu Indicators (ALT + 1-0)

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
/ This isn't necessary. Just press F10, then left arrow key. Perhaps could still be a nice to have but that's not my decision. And the more keyboard shortcuts Unity/Compiz takes, the less are available for applications to use. We already have dozens of shortcuts. Jeremy Bicha signature.asc

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for Unity based on the recent Canonical Design blog post

2011-04-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
to log off, I don't think discoverability is an issue, especially not with the much-improved System Settings app. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha
title, which in this case also includes the page title, assuming you're a power user with more than 7 tabs or so. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
is that the userbase expands and you can't get there without appealing to new users. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] BFB

2011-04-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
it since it has nothing to do with the home folder. I have always called it the Ubuntu button and I believe that is the best name for it. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Ayatana] BFB

2011-04-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 13 April 2011 13:15, Jeremy Bicha jer...@bicha.net wrote: Could we please call it the Ubuntu button? Calling it the Home button is confusing since it is directly located above a much bigger button with a home icon that opens the home folder. The BFB does not look like a home at all, nor

Re: [Ayatana] 'Control Center' should be in 'Launcher' not in 'Session Menu'

2011-03-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
on the left launcher by default gives it way too much prominence as there's limited space there. Jeremy Bicha ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/lo-menubar/description-lp-733615 into lp:lo-menubar

2011-03-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Jeremy Bicha has proposed merging lp:~jbicha/lo-menubar/description-lp-733615 into lp:lo-menubar. Requested reviews: LO Menubar Rockstars (lo-menubar-team) Related bugs: Bug #733615 in LibreOffice Menubar Extension: No description for LO Extension Manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/lo

Re: [Ayatana] Software Center Donate Button

2010-06-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
. And if that goes well, that would be a good time for someone to write a donate implementation to piggy back off the built-in infrastructure. So, it's possible but will take time. Jeremy Bicha On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, neuromancer neuroman...@devonlinux.netwrote: Great idea, I agree. Everyday massive

Re: [Ayatana] Default to single click to open files and folders

2010-05-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
sure to be a bit controversial like many Ubuntu design decisions are these days but I'd like to see this setting enabled for Alpha 1. Improved consistency, improved accessibility, and likely minor time savings once users adapt to the change. Jeremy Bicha On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Frederik

Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

2010-05-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
) are too quiet on my laptop. Please consider adding this ability to the sound menu, perhaps by holding down the shift key. Jeremy Bicha On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Sense Hofstede qe...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 7 May 2010 15:58, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: [snip] With most

Re: [Ayatana] Less is more a look at evolution

2010-03-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
which, I believe, is similar to what simple-scan did for sane Jeremy Bicha On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: You may be inspired if you take a look at Anjal and the Pimlico project (search for the app called Dates in Software Centre). They are cute