Re: [Ayatana] Anti-aliased window borders?

2011-10-15 Thread zekopeko
It wasn't ready for 11.10. It should be in 12.04. On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: I thought we were supposed to have this for 11.10? I saw multiple screenshots of ambiance with smooth borders during the testing phase, what happened, is it still on

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-05 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kévin PEIGNOT wrote on 04/09/11 13:04: I don't agree. PPA should be used only to install unstable / unsupported features. I think the problem is that a lot of very

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-05 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kévin PEIGNOT wrote on 04/09/11 13:04: I don't agree

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-04 Thread zekopeko
I would really like it if people would stop using freedom of choice as a club to bash any design decision that has to be made. It is a balancing act instead. Too little choice and you get GNOME 3.0, too much choice and you get the mess that is KDE. Forcing users to make a choice for which they

Re: [Ayatana] Thunderbird needs tighter panel integration

2011-09-04 Thread zekopeko
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Carl Ansell afccarl1...@hotmail.com wrote: On 04/09/11 17:39, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 4 September 2011 18:12, Kévin PEIGNOTwinniemie...@gmail.com  wrote: I totally agree. But this have been discussed times ago (with evolution) and it seems not

Re: [Ayatana] gnome-control-center in oneiric

2011-06-14 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Owas Lone he...@owaislone.org wrote: Hi everyone, I was just searching for an gnome-control-center API and found this,    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00096.html It suggest that 3rd party devs can't push their settings UI to

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-28 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:25 PM, David Stevenson da...@avoncliff.com wrote: On 28/03/11 11:44, Vishnoo wrote: We really need to collect mass user data as to how people are using their application windows, at what sizes they use the app and how often they are resizing. While I absolutely

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu really frustrating in virtual machines

2011-03-08 Thread zekopeko
Perhaps a better way would be for the VM software to have edge resistance within the VM area. That way you can still move the mouse out of the VM without pressing key combos. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote: The global menu is based on the assumption that

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

2011-01-18 Thread zekopeko
This all look fine and dandy until you realise that a the icons colors could clash with the icon background. I can imagine it could look quite ugly. Windows 7 has this solved rather nicely so why not simply copy how they did it? On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:50 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com

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

2011-01-18 Thread zekopeko
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Mark Curtis merkin...@hotmail.com wrote: Because it doesn't add anything to usability. I don't agree. Windows 7 makes it very clear what applications are running and which ones are not. It also makes it clear which ones have multiple windows, which ones have

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

2011-01-17 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Mark Curtis merkin...@hotmail.com wrote: Upon experimenting with Unity I've noticed the backlight for running applications. Is there a particular usability reason that the color of the backlight is exactly like that of Windows 7 where it is the predominate

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

2011-01-17 Thread zekopeko
It's not exactly like Windows 7 does it. If they did it like Windows 7 there would probably be no need for complaints. Currently every icon has a colored background. Before every icon had a border and would get colored when the app is running. Contrast that with Windows 7 where icon have no

Re: [Ayatana] nm-applet indicator patch improvements

2011-01-07 Thread zekopeko
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre mathieu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just posted some details about the latest stuff I had been working on for the nm-applet indicator patch: http://ur1.ca/2r6p9. I will however spare you most the reading; re-adding the animations,

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

2010-12-28 Thread zekopeko
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Zekopeko, On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 17:52, zekopeko zekop...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:18 +0100

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

2010-12-27 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:36 AM, frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: forgive me for sending 4 in a row on this thread.. here's a mockup of what i think, attached. it's actually a screenshot, just imagine the possibilities! the resize grab handle would have to be

Re: [Ayatana] Tiling and Floating window management in compiz (was: Put a resize widget in the title bar)

2010-12-27 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com wrote: This should probably be in a new thread, so reposting -- Forwarded message -- From: frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Put a

Re: [Ayatana] Me Messaging Indicator Menu

2010-12-27 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Spike Burch spi...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the mockup and it looks pretty good. The one problem I see right away that stands out, is how to notify the user of incoming messages via changing the icon color, like the message envelope currently does - if we

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

2010-12-21 Thread zekopeko
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@canonical.com wrote: 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

Re: [Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources

2010-10-19 Thread zekopeko
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:21 +0200, zekopeko wrote: One thing I noticed is that the various design specification (Software Center, Networking, DateTime, Notify-OSD etc.) are very scattered on the Ubuntu Wiki. I would like

Re: [Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources

2010-10-15 Thread zekopeko
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Christian Giordano christian.giord...@canonical.com wrote: 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

Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

2010-10-14 Thread zekopeko
Let me make a suggestion on how to fix this usability problem. Simply use font colors. There was already talk in Unity discussions of using blue (or green?) for informational elements so I think that would fit nicely. Long term it would probably best to allow theme developers to define their own

[Ayatana] Consolidating design specifications and resources

2010-10-14 Thread zekopeko
One thing I noticed is that the various design specification (Software Center, Networking, DateTime, Notify-OSD etc.) are very scattered on the Ubuntu Wiki. I would like for there to be a (single) page of currently active specifications so we can avoid things like this:

Re: [Ayatana] Unity interface - my Beta review and proposals

2010-09-11 Thread zekopeko
I think you are using the wrong terminology here. The left dock with the application icons is called the Launcher. Global Menu would be the actually File Edit ... menu that is right of the Ubuntu/window buttons. I agree that the launcher is taking space and it adversely affecting my user