On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:42 +0200, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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That's all that's needed. We shouldn't use generic titles like Power
information and then put the detail in the body - we should put the
key information in the title
2009/6/16 Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it
Please, let's keep the this is something that only power user
like/dislike old argument out of this discussion. I see this is not
your intention, but as we are all power users this is an effective
dialectic technique to lower the value of our
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Praveen tgpravee...@gmail.com wrote:
You are right and hence the only sane way of solving the problem seems to
be to give user the control to seta global do-not-disturb mode when he
needs it and logging the messages that he misses.This has several
advantages
2009/7/7 Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org
2009/7/7 Martín Soto dons...@gmail.com:
Take a look at my last message to this thread: I think it addresses your
point much better. In summary, I think we should not pay so much
attention
to the data source, but to the data destination. If you're
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:22 PM, mac_v drkv...@yahoo.com wrote:
The users cant/shouldnt expect everything to be spoon fed! The Option is
there! just because the user forgets ,it isnt a design flaw.
I wonder what sort of design philosophy you're advocating here. One where we
refrain from
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Paulo J. S. Silva pjssi...@ime.usp.brwrote:
Em Ter, 2009-07-07 às 13:49 +0200, Martín Soto escreveu:
Also, future versions of X/Gnome wil automatically offer a
configuration box as soon as you plug in a monitor. We can consider
asking the user once
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 08:44 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:15 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
There is no need for a Preferences for the Messaging Menu, and this
use case does not justify the creation of one.
We have specified a preference dialog for the messaging menu.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] The first thing I've noticed from this experimental opinionated
stance is a tendency to alienate and frustrate people who want to
collaborate. There are people who will give up their personal visions
for yours
2009/10/21 Paulo J. S. Silva pjssi...@ime.usp.br
In my humble opinion this is one of best ways to end a conversation:
takes your opponent point of view and turn it into a caricature that
make it sound unreasonable.
Well, I thing exposing the weaknesses in other people's argumentation is at
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Luke Benstead kaz...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] I think the reason that notify-osd's positioning is a particular
sticking point with many people is that it is something where no
default location will suit the majority of people. Users with visual
problems,
2010/4/30 Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com
2010/4/30 Martín Soto :
The fact that human brains posses such a high plasticity, however, is no
excuse for us not getting our act together. Whenever you change a UI, you
will break someone's habituation to that UI.
Not if you support both
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I think listening to music while chatting is not rare at all. I do it, and
many
other people I know do the same. And considering how much noise was made
over
the one-application-rules-the-sound-card bug that existed
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Think of all those flashy annoying myspace pages that play music and don't
provide any controls. Do you honestly believe that all the video and audio
players out there embedded into web pages have volume controls?
And
2010/5/3 Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com
There's a difference between not so common, and non-existent. I
understand
your concern that my use cases may be uncommon, but what you appeared to be
doing earlier was saying something like well most people would do X, so
let's
assume that
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Sense Hofstede qe...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Many people have said that adding all sound using applications is not
useful because they wouldn't use it. A few points:
* There is nothing that prevents you from ignoring the applications
in the list. In fact, I think we
2010/5/3 Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com
Norman's direct mapping would be the best model if each application
had volume completely independent of each other. This isn't true
though, as there is a system-wide volume control that changes all
applications at once, thus making individual application
2010/5/4 Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.com
a) how about listing mute toggle and play/pause for relevant apps?
This may be useful, maybe more so than controlling volume.
a buttoned interface with columns or rows for the respective
apps..with little 3 Bit digital volume meters (2 for
Hello everyone:
I just tried to collect some use cases (user stories) based on our recent
discussion about volume control. Here they are:
* Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while
she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs
a quick way to set the
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com wrote:
Before this discussion continues, it's essential that we define the problem
we are trying to solve..--
I agree with you. I just sent a message to the list, containing a set of use
cases for volume control. IMO, the
2010/5/5 Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com
2010/5/4 Martín Soto dons...@gmail.com
[...]
* Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while
she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs
a quick way to set the volume to adapt it to her mood
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Ralph Green sira...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/5/4 Martín Soto dons...@gmail.com:
* Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while
she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs
a quick way to set the volume to adapt it to her
2010/5/6 Tommaso R. Donnarumma tawmas.f...@tawmas.net
* Johann Sebastian wants to listen to music without interruptions. He
needs a quick way to mute all sound sources except his music player.
There seems to be a general need for a way to say the system please do not
disturb. This also
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote:
[...]
It is awkward that we have separate system and application-specific
volume settings, but I don't see how getting rid of the system volume
setting would work.
PulseAudio has a solution for precisely this
2010/5/12 Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Ensuring the alert sounds are loud enough to be heard over other sounds
- -- whether by making them temporarily louder, or making the other
sounds
temporarily softer -- is an interesting idea, but it seems out of scope
for the sound menu
2010/5/12 Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com
The problem with automatic controls is, you still need a simple
interface to override their behavior when the programmed automation
provides a wrong result. Maybe you can hide them a bit, but the same
options must be available.
Or you implement the
2010/5/13 Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com
If you can tell me how to do that, for all situations and usages, I
think there's a Loebner prize awaiting for you. Contextual adaptation
is a strong Artificial Intelligence problem.
And that's precisely the reason why you don't design for all
2010/5/13 Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com
2010/5/13 Martín Soto:
Or you implement the automation properly so that it reliably delivers the
right result.
The right result as defined by who? The designer or the user?
By the designer, of course. It is his task to determine how the product
2010/5/13 Walter Wittel witt...@gmail.com
Wouldn't reducing the volume of the other streams in x db below the
notification be much easier to implement and achieve the goal of hearinf the
notification? X could be different based on the urgency of the notification.
The problem is that if those
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote:
This strikes me as being too much of a nanny. If music is already
playing, and someone starts playing something else, that's their choice,
isn't it?
I guess it depends a lot on the situation. Suppose you´re listening to
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Brett Cornwall brettcornw...@gmail.comwrote:
Well, all that is written in the spec is:
*A compliant player should also keep playing if you close its window
while it is playing; exit if you close its window while it is not playing;
and remember exact state
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Mitja Pagon mitja.pa...@inueni.comwrote:
I see this scrollbars as another solution in search of a problem to solve
and in the process introducing more problems than it solves. When will
people realize that this is not the right approach to do things.
The
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