Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 863399] Re: Unity needs a way to switch (tab) between windows on current workspace

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
The Forums thread at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1862661 is essentially correct - the relationship between Workspaces and the rest of Unity is inconsistent. That's simply because we have not yet got to implement Workspaces the way we'd like, and what's currently shipping is the

Re: [Ayatana] Comments on the Device User Menu specs

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi Jeremy, thanks for your mail. On 02/08/11 00:35, Jeremy Bicha wrote: Since I help out on the Documentation Team, I value clear user interface terminology so that users, powerusers, and maybe even developers can use the same, understandable language. The old session menu name became unclear

Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 28/07/11 22:20, Evan Huus wrote: Admittedly, I've never used the spatial alternative proposed here, but I imagine it would be much nicer if I could know 'four tabs is app X' all the time, rather than, 'four tabs is the fourth-most-recently-used, which was, uh, what again?' Then you might

Re: [Ayatana] New Alt-Tab

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
It's a lovely idea, and three consecutive designers have dashed themselves on the rocks trying to get it right. I'd be thrilled if someone could do better! Here's what we found each time we tried it: *The launcher is spatial, the alt-tab is logical.* The alt-tab works best when it is a

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Let's see what people who try it have to say. Don't worry if there is negative feedback, that's what exploring and testing are all about. Thanks for making the testable mockup. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/03/11 20:40, David wrote: Hello again, http://unity.exemo.net/ A great start for testing, thanks! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-08 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 08/03/11 14:14, Marc Lajoie wrote: If I had a say (which I don't), I'd have a two-sided dock: on one side, the application buttons, on the other, the function buttons. The Ubuntu button would flip the dock over (perhaps with a pretty revolving animation!). See the attached mockup. Of

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 07/03/11 11:06, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mark, On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 08:16, Mark Shuttleworth mark.shuttlewo...@canonical.com mailto:mark.shuttlewo...@canonical.com wrote: The dash / launcher can be revealed with a 4-drag from left to right on touch devices

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 06/03/11 22:02, Martín A. Casco wrote: Click on Ubuntu's Icon for some shortcuts, lets see.. Apps (we an icon on Launcher for that); Files and Folders (same situation that Apps); then, Banshee (Sound Menu or Launcher if we want), Web Browser (include on Launcher out of the box), Shotwell

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

2011-02-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 22/02/11 13:28, John Lea wrote: I think there are two different interactions we can implement here, one that is mostly additional functionality and a second that needs further thought and visual design treatment. --- 1) Find all apps that can open a

Re: [Ayatana-dev] appmenu-gtk api for disabling aplication menus

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 22/01/11 17:05, Karel Karlitos Macha jr. wrote: I would like to ask if there is a possibility - for example with appmenu-gtk API - to let the application menus disappear without the need of starting indicator applet. I am developping a Linux based kiosk for older people and the

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/01/11 18:09, Conscious User wrote: They are very different things, and a design that works well for one will hardly ever work well for the other. I'm a little bit confused now because Mark's blog post about Unity clearly stated that some design decisions were motivated by touch

Re: [Ayatana] Better use of backlight in Unity launcher

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
We're experimenting with different uses of the backlight. For example, we'd like to experiment with using that to show focus in the keyboard navigation case (Alt-F1). I don't think running is useful, given we already have the symbolic pips, and I think there are risks to changing the look of the

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

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Great suggestions all! How about this: - if no app on the launcher can handle this type, and there is a default launcher, we put it at the bottom (where it would launch) and wiggle it to call attention to it - we also allow drag to the apps place, which would open (on hover) with the top

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
cwd.simp...@gmail.com mailto:cwd.simp...@gmail.com 2011/1/4 Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com When maximised, they go into the panel, on the right, left of any app-indicators. Can we can assume from this that per-application functions

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 20/02/11 18:39, Mitja Pagon wrote: Using the example of volume control mentioned below, am I the only one who thinks windicators make little sense and are in fact bad UX. No, of course you are not the only person, there's lots of dissent, which is fine and stimulates discussion to get a

Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher and minimized windows

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Minimize is really hide. It means keep this window alive, but get it out of my desktop view. The window is still in every sense part of the working set of windows, so it should show up in glorious technicolour during things like spread and alt-tab. Sam, would you make it so? It sounds like

Re: [Ayatana] Some ideas for the Software Center

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I agree, we don't need pre-emptive downloading of packages without an explicit user request for installation. On 13/12/10 11:52, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Like apt-get, USC installs recommended items by default, though you can uncheck them in the Add-ons section if you want to. No doubt it's

Re: [Ayatana] Graceful degradation of Unity

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 13/12/10 17:17, Spike Burch wrote: What I would do, although this is duplicating effort in the long run, is write a 2d version of unity using EFL, just like they did with the old netbook interface That's what I would do too :-) For 11.04, the focus is on getting Unity-with-GL as good as we

Re: [Ayatana] Why the launcher should be on the right

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 19/12/10 17:22, Mirek M. wrote: *The whole left side of the screen would be devoted to the current application* Right now, you get some system-related commands on the right of the top panel, application-related commands on the left, and some more system-related commands on the far left.

Re: [Ayatana] Compatibility goals for Natty appmenu

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 31/12/10 11:02, Conscious User wrote: I'm curious with respect to the appmenu compatibility goals targeted for Natty. So far there are some important apps non-compatible with it: XUL apps [Open,Libre]Office Swing apps SWT apps MonoDevelop I know that XUL is being worked on, but I

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator-Network

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Apoorva posted the correct item, which is the desired design for the network indicator. We're currently implementing that, with Connection Manager as a backend. It's not ready for prime time, but chat to Kalle Valo if you're interested in helping out. Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 10/12/10 06:52, Shane Fagan wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:04 +0530, Owais Lone wrote: Just wanted to check. Are Windicators targeted for Natty? How much work has been done? What if I wanted to play with it a little? No there was no talk about anything unless canonical have it going on

Re: [Ayatana] Compiz close-buttons on expose

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
For completeness on this thread, I'd like to say: - yes, we should show a close button on window previews in our spreads - it should only be the close button, none of the other window controls are relevant - it should only appear on mouse proximity (fallback - mouseover, prefer - fade-in with

Re: [Ayatana] Unity and tooltips

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 17/10/10 11:39, Vishnoo wrote: Is there a reason Unity's Launcher has tooltips for applications and places? [While Application icons could be considered as unrecognizable, Places icons are our custom icons so they should atleast be a bit recognizable.Still not sure how these tooltips are

Re: [Ayatana] Contributions?

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 17/11/10 20:30, Carsten Agger wrote: That may be inconvenient, as people here mostly speak Danish, a tiny language not understood outside our borders ... which means such videos will be less useful for people in most of the world. Well, multi-cultural testing is really valuable, as

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/01/11 02:44, Shane Fagan wrote: On the design of the windicators, how exactly do they fit? Im not really getting a good image in my head about how they will be fitting in since the area that they were supposed to be put into is going to be removed for maximized windows. When maximised,

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 692921] Re: Allow for the panel to be disabled (wishlist)

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 22/12/10 04:53, Frederik Nnaji wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 17:10 +0100, zekopeko wrote: I think that a decent solution for 11.04 would be to create a temporary workspace for the fullscreen app so that it shows in the Expo (Workspace switcher) mode but once the app is un-fullscreen-ed it

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Fwd: Super Compiz Unity Mockup Idea!!!!

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/12/10 22:47, Carl Simpson wrote: Isn't it still confusing that you have disabled window controls near the menus for, and the name of, the active window? That tells me that I can't maximise, minimise or close the active window. This is a message that conflicts with that given by the

Re: [Ayatana] [Bug 692921] Re: Allow for the panel to be disabled (wishlist)

2010-12-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
We definitely need a natural way to move between full screen (no panel) and panelled mode, across multiple apps. And perhaps we need a good way for things like indicators to show up at appropriate times, when the panel is not being displayed. So kudos to the Elementary team for their

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

2010-12-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 16/12/10 12:56, Martín A. Casco wrote: There is an interesting mail here about unifying Messaging Menu and Me Menu... for example, launch empathy (or Pidgin if installed) from Messaging Menu, see contacts chats from messaging menu, but if we want to set quickly our chat status we have tu

Re: [Ayatana] Presence via Me Menu

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/09/10 11:00, Frederik Nnaji wrote: I was hoping Mission Control 5 in Telepathy would make it possible to change back to online, away or busy, even when Empathy says my accounts are offline. Another thing is, that i'm being logged out, not sent offline. My computer is still online, it's

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 16/09/10 16:25, Conscious User wrote: Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 13:29 +0100, Luke Benstead a écrit : On 15 September 2010 17:25, Greg K Nicholson g...@gkn.me.uk wrote: On 15 September 2010 16:54, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com wrote: I know it's the space

Re: [Ayatana] Desktop Silent Mode

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 16/12/10 18:42, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi SABDFL, Yikes, that's much better in lowercase. In upper, it's more D than :-D This has probably been lying around for so long, because of design conflicts with how the Ayatana subsystem is currently wired. * Presence has no local effect

Re: [Ayatana] Allowing windows to move past launchers

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/12/10 10:59, Didier Roche wrote: Le jeudi 09 décembre 2010 à 18:55 +0800, Sam Spilsbury a écrit : Hi, I was doing some work on the snap windows plugin for compiz and I was wondering if it is the correct behaviour design wise to allow windows to move underneath the launcher and the

Re: [Ayatana] Allowing windows to move past launchers

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/12/10 17:43, Sam Spilsbury wrote: My idea was this: 1) On the intellihide case: [...] - When resizing a window, if the resize border touches the launcher, it goes away, easy I'd like to see a proximity push in this case. When the window is brought close to the launcher, we start to

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

2010-11-11 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 11/11/10 12:21, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: and yeah.. the speaker icons to the left and to the right of the volume slider should receive visual focus on hover, according to how i understand consistency in the careful treatment of threefold horizontal control elements in Sound Menu..

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

2010-11-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/11/10 20:05, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 20:21, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 09/11/10 01:36, frederik.nn...@gmail.com mailto:frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:54, Mark

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu

2010-11-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/11/10 20:39, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 13:31, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com mailto: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 mailto:m...@ubuntu.com wrote

[Ayatana] Workspace representations in the Launcher

2010-10-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I'm replying both to the bug, and to the Ayatana list, about the suggestion exemplified in the mockup at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/58399971/Launcher%20d.png First, thanks David for a very interesting idea, and for expressing it in a series of mockups that let people get a visual handle on

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~cimi/indicator-messages/fixes-to-right-label-and-icon-dimension into lp:indicator-messages

2010-10-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Icon guidelines for these should specify that they use the left middle pixel, and go right from there. THat way, the triangle always touches. Mark -- https://code.launchpad.net/~cimi/indicator-messages/fixes-to-right-label-and-icon-dimension/+merge/37272 Your team ayatana-commits is

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~cimi/indicator-messages/fixes-to-right-label-and-icon-dimension into lp:indicator-messages

2010-10-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 07/10/10 22:46, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 21:51 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Icon guidelines for these should specify that they use the left middle pixel, and go right from there. THat way, the triangle always touches. Should we shift them if not? We don't replace all

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/09/10 13:20, Vishnoo wrote: I dont think there is a bug regarding that color change either.. Someone should first file the bug. :) Done at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/634003 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] SVG default wallpaper was: OMG!

2010-09-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 05/09/10 06:07, Martin Owens wrote: Well you know how gullible I am for making things for free ;-), here you go your feature request has been granted: http://doctormo.org/2010/09/04/whoa-wheres-it-going/ That rocks very hard indeed! Can you send me some sample SVG's so I can get a feel

Re: [Ayatana] SVG default wallpaper was: OMG!

2010-09-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 03/09/10 21:44, Diego Moya wrote: One word of warning - if this feature finally gets included in Ubuntu, please make sure that the orange highlights are always kept subtle and never run out of control. In Owens' demo the generated wallpaper looks great mainly because it contains very

Re: [Ayatana] OMG!Ubuntu a bane or a boon? [was]Re: The new default wallpaper

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Thanks Vish for reminding folks of the importance of respect when providing feedback. As Ubuntu grows, it's necessary for calm heads to constantly remind newer folks of the core values of the project, otherwise we'll lose the gravity that holds our galaxy together, so to speak. The Code of

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 03/09/10 05:12, David Hamm wrote: It may have taken years to make the first Elvis Sandwich, but no one can deny its tastiness.* * * * If however we are trying to achieve an orgasm then, well, you guys are on your own. And back to the topic, please ;) signature.asc

Re: [Ayatana] SVG default wallpaper was: OMG!

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD, what works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather wide. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 20/08/10 15:17, Christian Giordano wrote: Shouldn't we promote our style guides? Sure they probably don't include video editing/transitions etc, but the typography of some of those videos is just too inconsistent. Yes, we should. The wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMovies says

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 20/08/10 17:55, Shane Fagan wrote: Well I think it would be fun to put some of the high quality ones on the front page of ubuntu.com http://ubuntu.com using HTM5 video embedding. We can do that for release if we get something stunning. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/08/10 07:49, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote: We can also make a youtube site and gather all the videos and put the winner on the main page. I have been thinking on it for some time. We could also have something like the best video of the month and have it always on the main page and keep it

Re: [Ayatana] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 20/08/10 18:54, Jake Tolbert wrote: This is an interesting question that I'd like some perspective on (as a bit of an outsider to Canonical, but part of the FLOSS community): where does Canonical a/o Ubuntu's responsibility to maintain the Ubuntu brand end? As a marketer in a rather

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Joern, that looks really interesting! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's desktop

2010-08-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 08/08/10 20:49, Apoorva Sharma wrote: I like all these ideas, but why not do what KDE4 did, and present a desktop of files, a zeitgeist timeline, etc. as widgets, so you could have access to files and useful information? I do think a gadget story is interesting. There's no really

Re: [Ayatana] Places People

2010-08-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 12/08/10 07:52, Frederik Nnaji wrote: for the advantages the new Places will bring it might be an attractive undertaking, yet the primary place for contacts IMO should be the human memory, where the most valuable and important contacts are permanently being kept alive through human social

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 19/08/10 10:48, Allan Caeg wrote: That could work for Unity (though I'm not very familiar with it), but we also have to think about other platforms. Got to think about something that will work upstream (GNOME). Ah, you touch on my sensitivities! From our perspective, Unity is upstream,

Re: [Ayatana] [Usability] The Future of Window Borders, Menu Bars, and More

2010-08-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 19/08/10 12:54, Allan Caeg wrote: Oops! That's not what I meant, good sir! I just wanted to make sure that we're not forgetting other platforms. I love what you and the rest of the Ubuntu team do. We sometimes just have miscommunications because of semantics and stuff. Perhaps, what I

Re: [Ayatana] Light Sound Theme

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi Chris Thanks for the pointer to the sound theme, here are some comments: In general, I think we want something lighter, more ethereal. Quite a number of the instruments seemed to be full-bodied, more like piano's than harpsichords, if you know what I mean. The -connect-3 and -disconnect-3

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 03/08/10 20:25, Matt Wheeler wrote: In reality (as ScottK has already mentioned) only Firefox *needs* a restart after an update, everything else will just continue to run the slightly out of date version until you get around to restarting it. Boy, I wish we could tell Firefox to save

Re: [Ayatana] Light Sound Theme

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 03/08/10 22:54, S. Christian Collins wrote: Thanks for the pointers, Mark! They will give me a much clearer idea of what you all are looking for in a sound theme. Well I'm just one opinion, there are others with better musical taste in the room I'm sure ;-) signature.asc Description:

Re: [Ayatana] Sound indicator position indicator and scope

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/08/10 02:44, Dylan McCall wrote: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/soundmenu.png That position indicator has stuff going on on both sides and the number of the left side is continually ticking. It contributes to that music player element looking big, bulky and

[Ayatana] Space in the sound menu

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I blogged about the layout of the track metadata in sound indicator at http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/446 With a mockup like: In comments on the post, Mike Rooney pointed me to a thread that included http://picasaweb.google.com/100804433705878937883/Mockups#5493946264489470306

Re: [Ayatana] Sound Menu and ellipsizing in the middle

2010-08-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 31/07/10 10:38, Mohammed Amine IL Idrissi wrote: (Sorry if this has been asked before) Hello, Currently, the Sound Menu ellipses the track name in the middle. Why's that? Ellipsizing in the middle creates confusion: for example, Casiokids - Min Siste Dag becomes Casioki...ste Dag, which

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/07/10 16:44, Luke Benstead wrote: The red indicator has been a bug bear of mine for a while, red is far to severe a colour for something that isn't an error condition. I'd again suggest blue for information, or at most an amber to indicate a warning (I guess it's possible a kernel

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/07/10 19:24, Vishnoo wrote: How about : Restart To Apply Updates... or Restart and Apply Updates... Could do, yes. By then the updates have been installed, so I was looking for language which indicated that the update process wasn't complete. Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/07/10 20:01, Martin Owens wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 19:31 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Could do, yes. By then the updates have been installed, so I was looking for language which indicated that the update process wasn't complete. Could the level of warning not be directly

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/07/10 20:01, Martin Owens wrote: Could the level of warning not be directly related to the severity of the security problems in the update? Also... we don't want to get too anorack about this. In theory, we could use blue for informational updates, orange for low priority updates and red

Re: [Ayatana] Restart Required

2010-07-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/07/10 20:57, Vishnoo wrote: Right , just wanted to mention that we dont need to use punctuations or brackets in menus: Restart To Complete Update... [ or s/complete/finish or any synonym ] Yes, that would fit nicely :-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] SoundMenu and hovering

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
David, I see only one state in the .gif, the rest seem blank. T-bird 3.1.1. Mark ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :

Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 08/07/10 00:10, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Why exactly do we want the WM to be handling tabs here? Trying to do tabbed applications within the window manager for the sake of having tabs is a huge waste of memory, especially when the application itself can already do tabs. ... the result is a

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 30/06/10 14:15, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: I agree that the F-Spot example isn't status; I couldn't think of anything appropriate for that. :-) Does F-Spot not have an online / offline mode yet? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about unclutter

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I would add that my first annoyance with this behavior is that I often use the mouse pointer to point out something in a screenshot. Now I must stay physically active to do so rather than just setting the screenshot delay time properly, positioning the pointer, and waiting. That's easy to

[Ayatana] Me menu broadcast message feedback

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi MPT If you're in the thick of things and don't have a chance to respond that's fine, please just copy this into the Me-Menu-Nifty spec as a placeholder for later discussion. == Broadcast Message Feedback == In order to provide feedback on the success or failure of broadcast messages and

Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 06/07/10 02:02, Frederik Nnaji wrote: I thought it didn't depend on window decoration anymore!? Doesn't Global Menu read its items idenpendently already? Our Global Menu requires the application to publish it's menu using a protocol we have designed and implemented, over d-bus. For Gtk and

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 06/07/10 08:49, Philipp Wendler wrote: Hi, Am 06.07.2010 08:41, schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: Interesting questions. My gut feel would be: - incoming IM notifications would be suppressed - incoming calls would be displayed Why the latter? When I put my cellphone in DND

Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 07/07/10 09:29, Diego Moya wrote: On 7 July 2010 07:32, Philipp Wendler wrote: How would you handle the advanced application-specific features related to tabs? In Firefox for example, there are quite a few actions when you right-click on the tab bar: - reload

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 06/07/10 02:09, Frederik Nnaji wrote: Or will it have effect for social communication also? How about incoming voice and video calls? Do Not Disturb should be a system-exlusive mode? Interesting questions. My gut feel would be: - incoming IM notifications would be suppressed - incoming

Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/07/10 11:54, Sense Hofstede wrote: The mock-ups for Firefox 4 seem also to be using CSD. That's the only way I can think of to get that menu up there in the title bar. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Linux_Theme_Mockups Indeed. Again, if we have a consistent solution for the

Re: [Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 04/07/10 19:29, David Hamm wrote: In 10.10, we'll take a big step forward in the netbook edition, by moving the menu into the top panel and combining it with the titlebar for maximised windows. This will be very nice! Thanks Dev's. Defiantly going on my laptop, even tho its 12, tabs

[Ayatana] CSD and the pressure to innovate

2010-07-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 29/06/10 07:19, Conscious User wrote: I think that makes two of two implementations that nicely illustrate the concern that CSD is harmful for workspace consistency. I have to agree on this one. Visual inconsistency is one of the oldest complaints against Songbird. I think

Re: [Ayatana] Broadcasting from Me Menu: thoughts after some time using it

2010-07-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 28/06/10 21:40, Apoorva Sharma wrote: I really like the idea of having some sort of notification on a successful broadcast from the memenu. However, I think that too much color could be a problem. Thus, I propose the following: * After the user stops writing the message, a spinner

Re: [Ayatana] Lack of harmony between panel applets

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 28/06/10 03:34, Tyler Brainerd wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Allan Caeg allanc...@gmail.com mailto:allanc...@gmail.com wrote: Will indicator-network feel integrated with Indicator Applet and Indicator Session? If indicator-network is right beside Indicator Applet,

Re: [Ayatana] Lack of harmony between panel applets

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 28/06/10 08:33, Martin Owens wrote: Although I hear it'll unravel all the functionality for the evolution calendar and task list as well as the handy locations and ability to change locations from that menu. In due course, similar capabilities will be added. But for the moment it's

Re: [Ayatana] Design discussion proposals for Christmas

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 31/12/09 17:20, Conscious User wrote: But *can* the current specification fix this for closed-source apps like Skype? The reason I ask (and forgive me if I'm wrong) is that Application Indicators seem to solve the problem of notification area consistency but not the problem of notification

Re: [Ayatana] Lack of harmony between panel applets

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 28/06/10 08:53, Conscious User wrote: In due course, similar capabilities will be added. But for the moment it's minimalist. Here's me hoping that those similar capabilities will be implemented in a neat d-bus service way which follows an app-independent protocol, thus closing

Re: [Ayatana] Lack of harmony between panel applets

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 25/06/10 08:49, Tyler Brainerd wrote: From what I understand, a lot of these changes (for instance, the new network manager) are and will continue to show up in the Unity interface, before eventually making their way over to Desktop. You'll be able to use our replacement for Network Manager

Re: [Ayatana] Me Menu - Review

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 24/06/10 13:08, James Putt wrote: So we need to think carefully about whether being offline is an alert condition or not. I don't really think it is. Neither do I :) I think an error-based-offline is an alert condition. In other words, if you set yourself to be Available, and

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

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/06/10 15:04, Frederik Nnaji wrote: What GlobalMenu does, is to detect what the user is currently looking at, then afford the respective controls for its manipulation. The Sound Menu can also behave like this: * Probe for focused media apps * assign the most accessible volume fader to

Re: [Ayatana] Me Menu - Review

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 21/06/10 10:42, James Putt wrote: I agree colour is significant. I was considering that the top menu by convention is monochromatic with certain colours having a particular meaning, and how having different icons in the drop down menu to the icons representing the menu would play out. In

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/06/10 19:42, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Do you need to interact with them during alt-tab? Remember that your screen is grabbed and you are busy finding windows, not tweaking them. I think, if we're going to expose them, we should enable them to be interactive in order to keep them faithful to

Re: [Ayatana] mail indicator not consistency

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/06/10 13:18, Frederik Nnaji wrote: On 2010-06-18, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 23:34 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: On 31/03/10 18:51, Jim Rorie wrote: From a bigger picture frame of reference, I was mulling a global do no disturb state

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-06-18 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 18/06/10 15:00, Sam Spilsbury wrote: Yes, perhaps show them at 1:1 scale as emblems on the window previews, whatever the underlying window scale is for the reveal / alt-tab. Mark I would imagine with 24x24 icons you're going to have enough room for about 4 of them on each window

Re: [Ayatana] Redesigning the Ubuntu mouse cursor for simple notification of app attention

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Platform team is reviewing unclutter for inclusion in the default install and session. MPT, you might want to provide guidance on the upgrade experience - this should be added to sessions after update. Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] Application Menu bug consolidation and plans

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 14/06/10 18:59, nickwinl...@comcast.net wrote: My message is to the passive group or those who lurk.. Please note that ``duped'' isn't a word. That is what you all should work on fixing technologically and socially in the future, and not creating new branches or nodes from the same tree

Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 15/06/10 10:35, Luke Benstead wrote: I thought about that, but AFAIK you can't have right clicking (perhaps also double clicking) inside an indicator menu. We could do a special-case for this. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] Redesigning the Ubuntu mouse cursor for simple notification of app attention

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 14/06/10 08:55, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Frederik Nnaji wrote on 05/05/10 16:14: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 02:24, Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com mailto:alex.la...@gmail.com wrote: I usually move my cursor completely out of view when I'm not using it. I've definitely seen my

Re: [Ayatana] How do I know when I'm connected to the network successfully?

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Just so folks are clear on direction: - we would like to move to Connection Manager (connman) in due course, for its cleaner, more pluggable, testable and maintainable architecture - we have a detailed, signed-off design for the indicator associated with that at

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/06/10 19:23, Conscious User wrote: Now, I'd feel a lot more confortable if someone steps in and says a hung window can still be easily closed when using CSD because of technical reasons X, Y and Z. A hung window can still be easily closed when using CSD because the position of the

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Open Letter: The issues with client-side-window-decorations

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 09/06/10 18:02, Martin Gräßlin wrote: Please tell me you are joking. After all the arguments I presented you still think CSD is the road to go? You completely ignore my arguments, you actually have not even read my arguments or you would know that some things like closing hung windows or

Re: [Ayatana] Putting some brakes on the enthusiasm

2010-06-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 10/06/10 04:20, Sam Spilsbury wrote: That is a bad idea. You cannot just say we're going to use [insert technology X], but that does not matter since what we care about is design without ignoring the many upstreams who will ultimately be incredibly upset by that technical change for the

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