Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charles charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 20:02: ... could you make the active application top menu appears all the time on the task bar just like mac osx? it annoys me i have to hover my mouse to the top task bar each time i want

Re: [Ayatana] Ayatana dev list - attitude

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 16/10/11 10:50: ... I do still believe there's something has to change regarding the up to date software installation, just like in windows xp, though it's old from year 2001, but we still able to install most of

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

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefanos A. wrote on 16/10/11 15:24: *Some* windows are ok to resize, because for those windows, the probability that people would resize them deliberately multiplied by the benefit from doing so is greater than the probability that people

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

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 19:58: dear unity developer team, could you please reduce the default font and ui size of unity and ubuntu overall, they really taking much screen real estate, or at least give us option to reduce the

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

2011-10-18 Thread Angel Guzman Maeso
FYI: Changing the text-scaling-factor is easy with gsettings: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor FACTOR FACTOR is a float value with high precision For example: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 0.9 Also, you can get the current

Re: [Ayatana] Ayatana dev list - attitude

2011-10-18 Thread charlesa...@gmail.com
I like the option #1. :) /charles everytime i get ahead, i feel more dead. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 16/10/11 10:50: ... I do still believe there's

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tomasz Sałaciński
The text scaling factor setting is highly undesireable. Neighter Mozilla apps or QT apps are respecting it. So with this change you'll get smaller/bigger fonts on the desktop, but Skype, Guitar Pro and Firefox will remain intact. This will make user to search changing Firefox font size in

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

2011-10-18 Thread Angel Guzman Maeso
2011/10/18 Tomasz Sałaciński tsalacin...@gmail.com The text scaling factor setting is highly undesireable. Neighter Mozilla apps or QT apps are respecting it. So with this change you'll get smaller/bigger fonts on the desktop, but Skype, Guitar Pro and Firefox will remain intact. This will

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tomasz Sałaciński
Hello, Sorry, I am not a Ubuntu developer, I have no power over what is included and what patches are accepted. I'm in doubt that my application will get into Ubuntu, I just wanted to share it with people that like to have such an app. In order to get everything working with this setting

Re: [Ayatana] simple NLP in dash

2011-10-18 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 16:13, Christian Rupp christ...@r-k-r.de wrote: Am 17.10.2011 15:09, schrieb frederik.nn...@gmail.com: i'd like to type (and one day speak) natural language to achieve simple things, such as adding an appointment to my calendar or showing all pictures i copied,

Re: [Ayatana] simple NLP in dash

2011-10-18 Thread Stefanos A.
2011/10/18 frederik.nn...@gmail.com frederik.nn...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 16:13, Christian Rupp christ...@r-k-r.de wrote: But I still don't like the idea behind, melting dash and Commands. I think keep on using [alt]+[f2] is a better choice. Anything else would confuse the normal

Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 18. okt. 2011 12:50, skrev charlesa...@gmail.com: [snip] i guess, there's a lot to be done with this unity. if we're gonna copy mac osx/ios, at least we have to do it right this time! :D Learning and copying are two radically different things. I really don't want to have the menus

Re: [Ayatana] Proposes to change launcher's behaviour with multiple windows

2011-10-18 Thread David
In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at a time instead of the whole group. Something is not right with the unity launcher for sure, multiple windows of the same application is a massive pita at

Re: [Ayatana] Proposes to change launcher's behaviour with multiple windows

2011-10-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 18. okt. 2011 17:38, skrev David: In my opinion, every icon that has multiple windows should work as a stack, popping up the most recently used window from that group, one at a time instead of the whole group. Something is not right with the unity launcher for sure, multiple windows of the

[Ayatana] Fwd: stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Tadej Rosa
I'm sorry, I forgot to add ayatana list to the recipients. Message below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tadej Rosa tadej.r...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 18:27 Subject: Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar To: Jo-Erlend Schinstad

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Stefanos A.
For what it's worth, I've pretty much stopped using menus since I started using 11.04. There are times when I forget menus even exist and stand there wondering how to perform some action - especially in applications I am not familiar with. Other applications with complex menus, such as gimp, have

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread charlesa...@gmail.com
totally agree with the always visible on the global menu. don't want that top taskbar only displays empty bar most of the time, do we? :P /charles everytime i get ahead, i feel more dead. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Stefanos A. stapos...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, I've pretty

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jjardon/indicator-datetime/fix-833337 into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
I think that would be better than trying to invent understandable rules for when locations will be hidden, definitely. I've just forwarded you part of a discussion I had with Ted about this. Thanks! -- https://code.launchpad.net/~jjardon/indicator-datetime/fix-87/+merge/79332 Your team

[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jjardon/indicator-datetime/fix_833337 into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-10-18 Thread Javier Jardón
Javier Jardón has proposed merging lp:~jjardon/indicator-datetime/fix_87 into lp:indicator-datetime. Requested reviews: Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers) Related bugs: Bug #87 in Indicator Date and Time: Current timezone duplicates with saved locations