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

2011-10-13 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
sure all the windows can be resized, so they at least just work everywhere, even if they require a bit more scrolling? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Applications

2011-09-06 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
of the ubuntu experience should just not be in main, but be delegated elsewhere... -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] Usability testing as a show case of non-techies can contribute to Ubuntu

2011-06-26 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
things you're not aware of. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

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

2011-06-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
that don't overlap, and you've focused one by mouse-over. There's now *zero* indication that the global menu isn't related to the focused window. Select a destructive action like File:Revert or Delete is now a very scary and unpredictable concept. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer

Re: [Ayatana] Understanding the menu problem.

2011-05-31 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
here. It doesn't matter much for users that typically only have one or two windows open, but when you have a busy workflow, it's a huge advantage. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

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

2011-05-26 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
of mail in the panel, and don't have it right now. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

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

2011-05-25 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
need a good place for *indicating* new web mail (regardless of whether we do it well now, which we don't). -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Windows in Unity

2011-04-16 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
-mode and application-switching-mode without releasing the modifier. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= email/xmpp: jer...@nickurak.ca ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Windows in Unity

2011-04-16 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
the window you want. Release alt. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] why global menubar/application menu isn't such a great idea

2011-04-06 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
, if mainstream applications are starting to discard the concept anyways. One idea could be to use the application's toolbar or navigation/URL bar, which is probably much more frequently used than a menu bar. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca

Re: [Ayatana] What to do with the menubar on non-full screened windows.

2011-03-29 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
to have the menu-bar in/near the title-bar for non-maximized windows, whether as a traditional menubar, a menu-bar-in-titlebar, or a menu button. Each has some advantages and disadvantages. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca

Re: [Ayatana] Detached menus and not-click-to-focus

2011-03-26 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
That's a pretty nasty problem, and I'm not sure what can be done to fix it. Any thoughts? Force a delay on when windows get refocused? I've always used focus-follows-mouse, and trying the menubar-on-top thing recently, this made it almost unusable. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer

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

2011-03-11 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
, application behavior, or even data. In that sense, there's something inherently me-related to the settings I've selected. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-10 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] hiding unmounted bookmarks

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Evolution indicator

2011-01-17 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Missing reply-to strikes again. :/ Sorry. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 16:46, Jean Levasseur levasseur.j...@gmail.comwrote: Début du message transféré : *Expéditeur:* Jeremy Nickurak jer...@nickurak.ca *Date:* 17 janvier 2011 18:38:01 HNE *Destinataire:* Jean Levasseur levasseur.j

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
. Session-management in general, and session-management-for-indicator-applications in particular, needs some serious re-thinking. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-05 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 09:25, Ted Gould t...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 22:55 -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: So would you also expect that individual applications should manage their presence in the saved session as well? Then also their running-but-minimized-to-the-indicator

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-04 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
, but not actually doing so). -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-04 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
-uninstalling-the-indicator-m/15616#15616 Thanks Ted, I knew somebody would fill that in :) So would you also expect that individual applications should manage their presence in the saved session as well? Then also their running-but-minimized-to-the-indicator-somehow status? -- Jeremy Nickurak

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2010-12-21 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
inconsistency, and to date is still the most annoying thing about the messaging menu to me. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] [Fwd: Re: Presence via Me Menu]

2010-12-20 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
. Offline is the ultimate maximum level of do not disturb. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More

Re: [Ayatana] Option to move launcher to the right

2010-12-05 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Only thing I'll say: Putting it on the top/bottom makes a lot of sense if you've rotated your monitor to portrait mode. And if you go to the trouble of supporting that anyways, allowing right/left to be configurable probably isn't a big deal. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

2010-11-09 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 13:31, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/11/10 20:07, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:21, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't think we have a comprehensive horizontal-nav guideline, yet. I do think we have a policy

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

2010-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
The one thing I think is interesting WRT horizontal menus is Google Chrome's Copy/Cut/Paste combined menu entry. It's really quite neat when you have a row of options that are are more closely coupled to each other (function-wise) than they are to the other rows. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2010-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
. :) Is an email a big deal? Is an IM a big deal? Is a VOIP call a big deal? I think it's impossible to get this right for everybody, so it really should be configurable. Further, I think we're far enough off a good out-of-the-box behavior that the defaults need some serious re-thinking. -- Jeremy Nickurak

Re: [Ayatana] Audial notifications.

2010-09-25 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
item, the user should be notified about it... and btw, play a little sound to go with it. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
of choice (whether that's local disk, or Ubuntu One, or network shares). -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https

Re: [Ayatana] Undersized indicator icons

2010-07-11 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
be specified in a more useful manner? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Application Indicators improvement suggestion - optional text with icon

2010-07-08 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Is RGBA not intended to be used with Metacity or just ignored?

2010-07-03 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
again. I love Ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer

Re: [Ayatana] Yet another discussion on window resizing

2010-06-22 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
status, or possibly full-screen status. The result is that you can open a program, maximize, close, and come back to it later... then it'll look maximized, but not quite be, so some part of the window ends up obscured by a panel. Evince is the latest offender here. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-17 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
could imagine CSD being really interesting... plus it gives us a natural fall-back when CSD isn't available in the window manager: just use the ordinary menu bar. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-08 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
a protocol, to which the window manager can decide to draw the appropriate object, where it wants. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] mail-indicator, as an improvement of evolution-indicator

2010-06-03 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
an API for it at least, and that's what gm-notify uses. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help

[Ayatana] Opening URL's that point at downloadable objects

2010-06-03 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
could be addressed with a little clever proxy work... Thoughts? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Libappindicator rejected as an external dependancy for Gnome 3.0

2010-06-03 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
the notification area entirely, diverging further from what the rest of the Linux desktop world looks like? On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:53, Shane Fagan shanepatrickfa...@ubuntu.comwrote: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 18:22 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: As mentioned in http://permalink.gmane.org

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 436755] Re: indicator-applet doesn't change icon when I recieve new e-mails via Evolution

2010-05-31 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
-mails via Evolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436755 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] progress dialog mockups

2010-05-28 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] No application bucket needed

2010-05-19 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
of worms :) I do, however, think the connection between services and the desktop experience is important to keep in mind, even beyond the session. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] No application bucket needed

2010-05-19 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
) by having a clear visual indication that the the window is tied to the indicator, and the application really lives in the indicator, and that the window is just an interface to it. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution

2010-05-18 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
and notify-osd seems to be moving fast, and its performance is substantially better. Maybe Thunderbird is the way forward? I love that evolution feels more like a regular gnome application, but if it doesn't work, that doesn't help much. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca

Re: [Ayatana] Evolution

2010-05-18 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
in it. I'd consider trying thunderbird again, but I'm too hooked on gmail's labeling system, and that just doesn't map intuitively to IMAP folders right. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] No application bucket needed

2010-05-17 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
with the regular task-manager UI. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Combo Indicator Applets

2010-05-17 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
, and if you happen to have a more advanced implementation, it can do something cooler, but through precisely the same protocol! -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Combo Indicator Applets

2010-05-17 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
especially in the notification area, but that hasn't happened. Maybe you could give me a test case of something that's supposed to work with this behavior? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Instant-messaging as an indicator menu

2010-05-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] Instant-messaging as an indicator menu

2010-05-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
devs are already working on a 'favorites' list for the contact list, that would show up as a virtual group. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

[Ayatana] Instant-messaging as an indicator menu

2010-05-13 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
' window is usually long and narrow (like a menu), with a long vertical list of entries to interact with (like a menu). This would also play nicely with the other IM/social-networking interfaces that go into indicator menus, like the status-setting UI. Thoughts? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP

Re: [Ayatana] Combo Indicator Applets

2010-05-12 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
never seen this happen. I just removed the application indicator applet from my panel, and none of the elements in it moved to the notification area. I WOULD count this as a major win, but I've never heard about it before -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca

Re: [Ayatana] Combo Indicator Applets

2010-05-12 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
the Application Indicators should be in the notification area. Does that include the messaging menu, which lives in the indicator-applet? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post

Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed minimize to tray ?

2010-05-05 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed minimize to tray ?

2010-05-05 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
, and shouldn't have the concept of a workspace at all they should be sticky/appear-on-all-workspaces. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Panel menu in 10.10 Netbook UI

2010-04-28 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 16:14, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote: That's not an issue on netbooks. It's not an issue with *maximzed windows*. It's every bit as much as issue for unmaximized windows on the netbook as it is for the desktop. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca

Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

2010-04-28 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
for Ubuntu, then people might be less resistant to it now. The lack of communication on these points was more frustrating than anything. This is one where the perception of an open dialog took a big hit, in my opinion. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca

Re: [Ayatana] Panel menu in 10.10 Netbook UI

2010-04-27 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
: Luke, I believe the idea is to have the menu, window controls and title actually in the top panel itself, not in windows. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Luke Benstead kaz...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 April 2010 17:24, Jeremy Nickurak jer...@nickurak.ca wrote: What about windows with long

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-04-21 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
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Re: [Ayatana] Application indicators in gnome shell

2010-01-21 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 21:56, Ted Gould t...@canonical.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 16:53 -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 16:24, Ted Gould t...@ubuntu.com wrote: Shell does have a way to embed things in its panel, it is using the current

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

2009-12-14 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
of them and focusing on one. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

2009-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
Here's a related question: I've always had a mail notifiier running all the time. I always want it running. I want it running the *moment* I log in. I don't want to have to go into a menu and tell it to launch evolution every time I log in. (For that matter, I really don't want the Evolution gui

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if they are not on

2009-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 16:57, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: We're really moving away from app icons in menus. Really. Really really :-) Can I assume that would preclude using icons in the launcher menu to indicate things? ___ Mailing