Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-02-01 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 22:07, Georgi Karavasilev motors...@gmail.comwrote: Hmm, you kinda missed my point at A) - if the launcher is at the bottom the Dash button will go the the bottom left. When on clicks on the Dash the control buttons will be on the panel in the top left which requires

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-02-01 Thread Georgi Karavasilev
LOL, not sure Thunderbird send my previous email correctly, so sending it again :P _ Well, if you do some mockups for A) and C) it would rock! :) ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-02-01 Thread supernova
Unity's personality, design, imposes that it's on the left... Il giorno martedì 29 novembre 2011, Christian Rupp christ...@r-k-r.de ha scritto: I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it working: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-01-30 Thread Georgi Karavasilev
Hmm, there are two major cons with bottom launcher: A) The dash control buttons are on the top left (maximaze and close), what happens when the Ubuntu buttom is at the bottom left and those buttons on the top left? B) Due to the fact that launcher is set to Dodge windows out of the box users may

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-01-30 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 16:17, Georgi Karavasilev motors...@gmail.comwrote: Hmm, there are two major cons with bottom launcher: A) The dash control buttons are on the top left (maximaze and close), what happens when the Ubuntu buttom is at the bottom left and those buttons on the top left?

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-01-30 Thread Georgi Karavasilev
Hmm, you kinda missed my point at A) - if the launcher is at the bottom the Dash button will go the the bottom left. When on clicks on the Dash the control buttons will be on the panel in the top left which requires mouse movement to change Dash size or close it (assuming if you cick the close

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-01-26 Thread Carl Ansell
...@gmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom Dear friends, Discussion on the bottom unity seem to have stuck.Here in this mail I present my experience with the users who used ubuntu first time. Be it that I installed it on their computer

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2012-01-26 Thread Petko
On 01/26/2012 07:13 PM, Sunil Singh Rana wrote: Dear friends, Discussion on the bottom unity seem to have stuck. Here in this mail I present my experience with the users who used ubuntu first time. Be it that I installed it on their computer or they uses it on my computer,

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-12-01 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 05:18, Ian Santopietro isan...@gmail.com wrote: Many Apps also use the bottom and right edges too. Totem, for example. Agree. Specially the right side is always used by scroll bar of the application. Totems still have one bar, which mention time, in between. But the

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-12-01 Thread Gino Vincenzini
I understand what people are saying but I agree that it makes little sense to try desperately to preserve the vertical space by sticking the launcher on the left side in an app ecosystem designed for the launcher or dock to be at the bottom. If that be the case then the reasons that integrate the

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-12-01 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 15:21, Gino Vincenzini openmysourcec...@gmail.comwrote: I understand what people are saying but I agree that it makes little sense to try desperately to preserve the vertical space by sticking the launcher on the left side in an app ecosystem designed for the launcher or

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-12-01 Thread Omar B .
we are discussing the menu on unmaximized windows on this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/682788 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:43:55 +0100 Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom From: sunil.r...@gmail.com To: isan...@gmail.com CC: estela...@hotmail.com; ayatana@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-12-01 Thread Ryan Gauger
It does give more customization to users. I understood what Shuttleworth said about why Unity wasn't more customizable in Natty: because it was a 1.0. But now that it's not a total 1.0 anymore, why not add some more customization like being able to choose the position of the launcher? I also like

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-12-01 Thread Davor
Dana Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:15:12 +0100, Ryan Gauger rtg...@gmail.com napisao/napisala je: It does give more customization to users. I understood what Shuttleworth said about why Unity wasn't more customizable in Natty: because it was a 1.0. But now that it's not a total 1.0 anymore, why not add some

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Omar B .
...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:03 -0700 To: sunil.r...@gmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom What happens to the top panel with the launcher at the bottom? What about the Dash window controls? Without sticking the top panel on the left, I

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Ian Santopietro
://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/how-to-move-unity-launcher-to-bottom-of.html but its still in dev of course. From: isan...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:03 -0700 To: sunil.r...@gmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom What happens to the top

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Omar B .
* if it wants to succeed in all these areas and for some many different type of users / devices. Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:05:42 -0700 Subject: RE: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom From: isan...@gmail.com To: estela...@hotmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net; sunil.r...@gmail.com I mean that the panel

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
?topic=171694.0 http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/how-to-move-unity-launcher-to-bottom-of.html but its still in dev of course. From: isan...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:03 -0700 To: sunil.r...@gmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Ian Santopietro
@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom What happens to the top panel with the launcher at the bottom? What about the Dash window controls? Without sticking the top panel on the left, I don't see how this design works. On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:01, Sunil Singh Rana

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/how-to-move-unity-launcher-to-bottom-of.html but its still in dev of course. From: isan...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:03 -0700 To: sunil.r...@gmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom What happens

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Ian Santopietro
: isan...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:04:03 -0700 To: sunil.r...@gmail.com CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom What happens to the top panel with the launcher at the bottom? What about the Dash window controls? Without sticking

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-30 Thread Roland Taylor
On 11/29/2011 02:54 PM, Chad M/ Germann wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:31 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 11/29/2011 05:55 PM, Christian Rupp wrote: I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it working:

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 11/29/2011 05:55 PM, Christian Rupp wrote: I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it working: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html That's not a very good design. The whole point of unity was to save vertical space and use

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 11/29/2011 05:55 PM, Christian Rupp wrote: I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it working: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html Should we include it in one of ubuntu next releases as a easy to activate option On second

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Marco Biscaro
Em 29-11-2011 15:45, Swapnil Bhartiya escreveu: On 11/29/2011 05:55 PM, Christian Rupp wrote: I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it working: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html Should we include it in one of ubuntu next

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 19:01, Sunil Singh Rana sunil.r...@gmail.comwrote: I think its a great idea. Design can be modified so that it remain consistent if some user chooses it to be on bottom. I don't really see much philosophy behind the current design; for example: I don't know why the top

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Chad M/ Germann
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:31 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 11/29/2011 05:55 PM, Christian Rupp wrote: I know it was discussed several times, but a plug-in finally got it working: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/install-ubuntu-unity-bottom-launcher.html That's not a very good design. The

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Ian Santopietro
What happens to the top panel with the launcher at the bottom? What about the Dash window controls? Without sticking the top panel on the left, I don't see how this design works. On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:01, Sunil Singh Rana sunil.r...@gmail.com wrote: I think its a great idea. Design can be

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Christian Rupp
Let's sum the things up: It may break the current idea of unity, but not for every device we need this horizontal space. We give the user the choice. the plugin shows that unity is far more customizable than many think. In my opinion it also shows that Mint could use unity as well... but used GS

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Sunil Singh Rana
Hello Friends, I hope all of you are having fun. :) Saving the vertical space could be a founding block, but a foundation should be consistent with all the foundations. we can't ignore the fact that most application uses the space close to left edge for navigation within itself; for example: back

Re: [Ayatana] unity at the bottom

2011-11-29 Thread Ian Santopietro
Many Apps also use the bottom and right edges too. Totem, for example. On Nov 29, 2011 6:02 PM, Sunil Singh Rana sunil.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Friends, I hope all of you are having fun. :) Saving the vertical space could be a founding block, but a foundation should be consistent with all