On 05/23/2011 06:47 PM, Allan E. Registos(x-mail) wrote:
On Monday, 23 May, 2011 10:13 PM, Ryan Peters wrote:
Before I say anything, let me state that I am not a developer or
designer of this project. From what I've read *from* the designers,
though, the decision was made for consistency's
Hi Martin,
On 05/23/2011 06:05 AM, Martin Häsler wrote:
Hi ,
After having followed this list for quite some time, I now feel
compelled to weigh in.
...
The insane:
Suspend/Shutdown:
I think this is the first design decision ever made in any desktop
which made me angry.
Leaving aside,
On 05/23/2011 09:52 AM, Martin Häsler wrote:
On 05/23/11 15:13, Ryan Peters wrote:
Hi Martin,
On 05/23/2011 06:05 AM, Martin Häsler wrote:
Hi ,
After having followed this list for quite some time, I now feel
compelled to weigh in.
...
The insane:
Suspend/Shutdown:
I think
On 05/21/2011 12:42 PM, Tim Murphy wrote:
On 19 May 2011 05:01, Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
mailto:slosh...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I'm sure that the development and design team would love to hear
some specific examples of how GNOME 3 is a regression. I've heard
a few before
On 05/18/2011 08:00 PM, Allan E. Registos(x-mail) wrote:
On Thursday, 19 May, 2011 03:54 AM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
Also, the critics saying that GNOME Shell is one size fits all must
have never looked at the extensions or third-party programs yet. There
are already places menus, drive menus,
On 05/18/2011 02:54 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:40:09 -0500, you wrote:
Because your blog won't let me directly comment for some reason (maybe
it's an add-on), I'm responding here:
I'm very glad that you gave GNOME 3 a chance! It's a well-known fact
around here that
On 05/18/2011 09:47 PM, Tim Murphy wrote:
On 17 May 2011 20:55, Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
mailto:slosh...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I've had to acclimatise to all sorts of horrible interfaces
after using better ones e.g. to Windows after Linux and you
can get
. It's possible for this to happen eventually, though.
I apologize if this response is rather long-winded. I'm very glad you've
given GNOME 3 a chance instead of reviving this annoying thread (and I'm
very thankful for that :P).
- Ryan Peters
First of all, I'd like to ask you to respond to the mailing list please.
Add gnome-shell-list@gnome.org to the list of recipients of your
emails so all of us, not just me, can get them. This is the second time
you've done this so far, so I thought I'd let you know.
On 05/17/2011 10:46 AM, Tim
On 05/12/2011 09:19 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
Also, I read a post on Planet GNOME a while ago that said how GNOME 2
solved some problems that the GNOME 2 applications menu had on
low-precision input devices, which can be read here:
Ah! Forgive me for not including the link, my mistake! I cannot
On 05/12/2011 09:28 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
On 05/12/2011 09:19 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
Also, I read a post on Planet GNOME a while ago that said how GNOME 2
solved some problems that the GNOME 2 applications menu had on
low-precision input devices, which can be read here:
Ah! Forgive me
On 05/12/2011 09:19 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
Also, I read a post on Planet GNOME a while ago that said how GNOME 2
solved some problems that the GNOME 2 applications menu had on
low-precision input devices, which can be read here:
And I found another error. I meant how GNOME 3 solved, not GNOME 2
still improving functionality, is a step in the right
direction.
Regards,
Tim
On 12 May 2011 15:35, Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
mailto:slosh...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On 05/12/2011 09:28 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
On 05/12/2011 09:19 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
Also, I
applications and it is not against
design concept of gnome-shell, what I think and hope.
Thank you very much!
Best regards Milan.
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On 05/11/2011 08:08 AM, Milan Oravec wrote:
On 05/11/2011 02:42 PM, Ryan Peters wrote:
You could try Alt+Tab and using the mouse to navigate. You can navigate
the Alt+Tab pop-up with Alt+[Shift+]Tab, Alt+[Shift+][above tab], the
arrow keys, and the mouse itself, which is a nice touch. Granted
On 05/09/2011 04:25 AM, kaddy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All
I am using Gnome 3 / Gnome-shell on ArchLinux...
As am I, and I love it :)
Feature Request:
A new Category introduced in the list called Recently Installed
Which obviously shows your last few applications you installed so you
can
On 05/07/2011 01:13 AM, Allan E. Registos wrote:
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:26 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
This is a perfect example of why people should feel comfortable using
suspend-to-RAM on Linux. And that's why we made it the default if the
kernel tells us that your laptop hardware is
On 05/07/2011 10:08 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
2. super fast application access
Ok, there is top-left corner and dash, but it requires a lot of mouse
movements and screen redrawing, to reach an app, that you want, and it
is totally not superfast.
You can type the first letters of the app's
On 05/07/2011 10:43 AM, Ryan Peters wrote:
On 05/07/2011 10:08 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
2. super fast application access
Ok, there is top-left corner and dash, but it requires a lot of mouse
movements and screen redrawing, to reach an app, that you want, and it
is totally not superfast.
You
On 05/06/2011 06:37 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 17:36 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
Somebody needs to take this thread out back behind the shed and put a
bullet through it's head for the good of humanity, so I volunteer to do so.
Denys, GNOME 3 is a radical change and you have
On 05/06/2011 08:46 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Since top bar still exists, and the place where icons used to be
now is not used for anything, what about making it possible
to have Favorites *there*
There are a lot of different screen sizes; some are big and some are
very small. GNOME 3 wants to
On 05/06/2011 11:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
On my previous installation - Fedora 13 - it was Gnome 2.
I just installed Fedora 15 and it uses Gnome 3. Oops.
Having suddenly to learn a new UI is not what I planned to do this
weekend. I have some other work to do.
If you don't want to learn a
On 05/06/2011 01:38 PM, G. Michael Carter wrote:
What about writing the dock extension so it's a button like the places
or drive menu. That way people can get their Menu sort of speak
with out interfering with the design.
While that sounds nice, it duplicates the features GNOME 3 already has.
On 05/06/2011 08:32 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
In Gnome 3, some popup windows don't have [x]
close button at the top right corner.
I need to find and click [Cancel] button instead.
See the attached screenshot.
Why?
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Somebody needs to take this thread out back behind the shed and put a
bullet through it's head for the good of humanity, so I volunteer to do so.
Denys, GNOME 3 is a radical change and you have a right to be upset, but
your responses have been rather rude. Asserting that the designers made
On 04/29/2011 05:43 AM, Marc Fouquet wrote:
If Ubuntu sticks with Unity, do you think that there is a chance we
might see a Gubuntu distribution, similar to Kubuntu and Xubuntu in
the long run?
I got used to Ubuntu, so I don't like to switch to another distro. But
I tried Natty/Unity
On 04/09/2011 11:28 AM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 10:44 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote:
I looked at the 'new' interface and have only 1 suggestion and I am not
sure how to convey this.
Right-handed people would seem to look to the right and moving the mouse
to the right is easier.
use that as a dock replacement and it's just as fast
and stays out of my way without the annoying auto-hide feature some
docks use to stay out of my way.
Link: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions
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I helped!
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On 03/01/2011 03:52 PM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
2011/3/1 John Stowersjohn.stowers.li...@gmail.com:
Admittedly it is usually windows users who I observe doing this, but I
think it is wrong to assume that users;
a) know that double click exists
b) can actually distinguish that it is different from
! :)
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release when GNOME 3 is released.
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On 08/22/2010 10:24 PM, Ryan Peters wrote:
On 08/22/2010 02:14 PM, Kyle Baker wrote:
For the past week or two, every time I click the shuffle button,
Rhythmbox freezes for second and crashes. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10
x86_64 with apport installed and its not auto-generating a crash
report
bless!
- Ryan Peters, Shell tester
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on GNOME
Live! has some interesting roadmaps,
design pages,
and an excellent tour.
You might want to look at these considering GNOME Shell has 8 months
until it is mature enough for GNOME 3.0 (hopefully).
God bless and sincerely,
- Ryan Peters, GNOME Shell tester
it works.
P.s. sorry 4 my english (I used google translate!)
You're fine! Google did a very good job at translating :)
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nity and is more
"upstream".
- Ryan Peters
PS: Just thought I should say that I am in no way affiliated with
the GNOME Shell development or design team, and I can't speak for
them. My emails are my own observations and opinions from what I
know so far
On 06/20/2010 04:28 PM, Florian Müllner wrote:
El dom, 20-06-2010 a las 16:16 -0500, Ryan Peters escribió:
On 06/20/2010 01:44 PM, Florian Müllner wrote:
[...] It might be enough to
force a rebuild of gir-repository (jhbuild buildone -f -a -c
gir-repository
and an extra six months would be a
perfect amount of time to get everything integrated and functional as
it is planned.
-Ryan Peters, GNOME Shell tester.
PS: Remember this is just a proposal by a community member and that
what I say has no effect on what could happen with the projec
as
Pidgin, but Rhythmbox is actually pretty okay for my needs. The
integration isn't extreme; it's just a re-implementation of the current
notification standard (whatever it was).
-Ryan Peters
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on the desktop are
redundant and we should get rid of it entirely (and hopefully replace it
with an idea like this? please?).
-Ryan Peters
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or at least available as an option?
On a related note, is it planned/allowed to be able to record audio as
well as video?
-Ryan Peters
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On 06/03/2010 11:29 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:38 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
I have recently tried out the fantastic GNOME Shell built-in screencast
recorder, and while looking through the gconf settings for it, I was
reminded that it saves videos in Theora format. Since
On 04/27/2010 11:45 AM, Alessandro Crismani wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm using Arch Linux and I would like to build a bleeding edge
snapshot of gnome-shell, however jhbuild fail at step 3 with the
following error:
./json-parser.c:916:38: error: comparison between ‘GTokenType’ and
‘enum
Just tried that now. Results:
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ryan/gnome-shell/source/json-glib/json-glib'
CC json-array.lo
CC json-debug.lo
CC json-gboxed.lo
CC json-generator.lo
CC json-gobject.lo
CC json-node.lo
CC json-object.lo
CC
:\)
From: Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
To: Florian Müllner florian.muell...@gmail.com
Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 9:37:56 PM
Subject: Re: Gnome-Shell building fails on Arch Linux
Tried that and it compiled perfectly! Thank you so much! However, when I run
the Shell, I get this after
Nevermind. I just re-started it and it runs perfectly now. Props to the GNOME
Shell team for working so hard :D!
From: Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
To: Florian Müllner florian.muell...@gmail.com
Cc: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org
Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 9:39
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example, the CSS customization of GNOME Shell, or the panel applets in
GNOME 2.
Iapologiseif this email was interpreted as aggressive towards
you Ryan Peters, it was notmeantas such.
'Tis fine, none taken. I just hope I don't seem like I'm mad at you :).
Sorry for sounding rather... "noob-ish
On 04/14/2010 08:57 AM, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
Dnia 2010-04-14, śro o godzinie 08:35 -0500, Ryan Peters pisze:
GNOME Shell doesn't need a dock, never will, and if you want a
different way to access your applications, just use a dock yourself or
wait until someone develops an add
On 04/15/2010 07:40 AM, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
Good day, I have an idea to present that I would like to
call the PieThrower.
The idea resolvs around providing the user with an easy and fast
interface to "throw" application windows to
different workspaces.
The inspiration came
On 04/13/2010 04:44 PM, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
Dnia 2010-04-13, wto o godzinie 09:52 -0500, Ryan Peters pisze:
I simply mean to suggest an alternate, somewhat more organized way to
handle minimization. I like that "docking" concept you mentioned, but
why wou
On 04/14/2010 07:44 AM, Mark Curtis wrote:
Except
it's arguably disorientating.
Requires more mouse movement (to corner for overlay, then down to icon)
Loses the "infinite height" advantage the window list had so the icons
are a much smaller target
Subject: RE: Scroll to zoom in/out.
On 04/13/2010 05:00 AM, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
Dnia 2010-04-12, pon o godzinie 20:19 -0500, Ryan Peters pisze:
Problem 1: How do we handle minimized windows?
All minimized windows are accessible in Activities overview.
Either with application button on the sidebar, or by clicking
On 04/13/2010 04:53 AM, David Mulder wrote:
May I point out that with my current understanding of the
Gnome Shell, a Rythmbox implementation you describe should be
relatively easy to be created using an extension.
David Mulder
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Ryan Peters
slosh
On 04/12/2010 09:19 AM, Shane Fagan wrote:
Nope it was the design teams work Matt Asay doesnt make
those kind of choices in his job.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Rovanion
Luckey rovanion.luc...@gmail.com
wrote:
My
personal, totally ungrounded and should not be trusted in any way,
On 04/08/2010 07:05 PM, Shane Fagan wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 18:56 -0500, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Rovanion Luckey
rovanion.luc...@gmail.com wrote:
@OP Apoorva If I'm not mistaken these designs are already
covered partially in the top
.
That being said, there is no reason why the well though out
positioning could be set as default.
Just my 2 cents.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Ryan Peters
slosh...@sbcglobal.net
wrote:
Hello Apoorva,
On 04/04/2010 06:24 PM, Apoorva Sharma wrote
On 04/06/2010 10:46 AM, clive wagenaar wrote:
On Tuesday 06 April 2010 16:23:55 Ryan Peters wrote:
P.S. Maybe KDE is your thing more than GNOME is; they seem to care quite a
lot more about customization.
Ouch :)
Well, it is rather true considering how each DE has their own goals
On 04/06/2010 05:51 PM, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 10:23 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
On 04/05/2010 03:44 PM, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
Would it be possible to make the panel system modular, like it is
right now. I understand that there have been discussions that have
ciate your proposal (regardless of the fact that I'm not on the
development team), but doing this is rather unnecessary at this point.
- Ryan Peters, GNOME Shell Tester
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On 04/05/2010 01:46 PM, Richard Silver wrote:
On the same note when will we get any sort of settings?
--
Sent from my Palm Pre
On Apr 5, 2010 11:30 AM, Tanner
Doshier doshi...@gmail.com wrote:
Are
there any plans to allow the vertical size of the panel to be
On 03/31/2010 09:10 AM, David Mulder wrote:
First of all, the last time I used gnome-shell there was
still a dock-style taskbar available inside the gnome-shell in the
top-left corner. Alt-tab is easy to switch between recent applications
and the gnome-shell allows you to easily switch between
On 03/31/2010 11:11 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:39 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
The last time I checked, most people didn't care about workspaces, and
restricting the shell to only show one desktop at a time in the
overlay makes sense because it's easier to see all
On 03/23/2010 11:22 AM, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
Right now, gnome-panel is an extremely customizable and
useful application. Thanks to the many applets that have been written,
it is getting better every month. Furthermore, many of the improvements
that are being made to linux distributions are
On 03/22/2010 11:55 AM, Glen Patras wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 19:01 +0100, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
--
Yeah, that makes sense. The left side of the window could have left
and right buttons for workspace switching (makes the feature more
obvious to new users). It'd make it look a little
On 03/20/2010 12:12 PM, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
I agree; there isn't much of a point to minimizing. Replacing it with
something that sends it to another workspace/icon-ifies it or something
would be a better idea.
Hey that may not be such a bad idea. Why not place buttons, that
depending on
On 02/06/2010 02:04 PM, William Jon McCann wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst
kaj-i...@vanderwijst.com wrote:
Hi everyone!
I've been using lately the new way of navigating through the desktops, with
the horizontal scrollbar instead of an overview of all the
On 01/14/2010 04:09 AM, Gianluca Inverso wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Gianluca Inverso zapp...@gmail.com
wrote:
2010/1/5 Florian Mllner florian.muell...@gmail.com wrote:
In
the overview, right clicking a running app's icon in the app well
will pop up a
I have just installed the latest version of gnome-shell from ricotz's
PPA, and I found a few rather pleasant surprises along with it:
1) When changing the volume with my volume keys on my keyboard, instead
of Notify-OSD popping up telling me what it was changed to, I got a
transparent
On 01/14/2010 01:23 PM, Florian Müllner wrote:
El jue, 14-01-2010 a las 13:12 -0500, Dan Winship escribió:
On 01/14/2010 12:41 PM, Ryan Peters wrote:
1) When changing the volume with my volume keys on my keyboard, [...] I got a
transparent round-ish square in the slightly-below
On 01/09/2010 01:56 PM, Bob Hazard wrote:
Yes. In fact, to a large extend it already is theme-able. If you have a
look at ${install_dir}/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css. Right
now, there is neither a way to have parallel themes installed nor a way
to switch themes, but expect these to
On 01/09/2010 01:56 PM, Bob Hazard wrote:
Yes. In fact, to a large extend it already is theme-able. If you have a
look at ${install_dir}/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css. Right
now, there is neither a way to have parallel themes installed nor a way
to switch themes, but expect these to
On 01/06/2010 01:06 PM, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
Why is C# trough mono considered a slower language in
comparison to any other JIT-compiled or interpreted language?
2010/1/6 Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
On 01/06/2010 04:05 AM, David Hamm wrote
On 01/06/2010 04:34 PM, William Jon McCann wrote:
Hey Ryan,
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Ryan Petersslosh...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On 01/06/2010 01:06 PM, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
Why is C# trough mono considered a slower language in comparison to any other
JIT-compiled or interpreted
On 01/06/2010 05:08 PM, David Hamm wrote:
"It also would be nice to see alot of the work already
done on gnome-do moved into the shell."
Just imagine a world were we all worked together on the same search
box. We could form a search box so powerful it could shake the mighty
*company that
On 12/22/2009 07:34 PM, David Hamm wrote:
"Isn't the plan to add a global menubar?"
oh gawd, please don't. If its anything like the global menubar in osx,
then its a nightmare. Please keep the applications settings within the
application.
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On 12/18/2009 04:56 PM, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth wrote:
Reducing the number of key clicks isn't a gain if it means
you have a much bigger list to look through. You can't measure
usability purely in number of clicks, or having the categorized menu
would never have been an improvement
complicated in shell than it is with a panel/dock. The
question is, how can that be improved?
2009/12/18 Ryan Peters slosh...@sbcglobal.net
On 12/18/2009 04:56 PM, Samuel Arthur Wright
Illingworth wrote:
Reducing the number of key clicks isn't a
gain if it means
you have a much
On 12/18/2009 05:46 PM, Thomas Wood wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 17:35 -0600, Ryan Peters wrote:
Hmm... how about the left side be an applications menu like before,
but the top/bottom could maybe contain Recent Documents/Places? In all
honesty I wouldn't mind the new application menu so
On 12/15/2009 11:55 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote:
Non actually u can run Docky under Shell :P
2009/12/15 Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth ma...@mazz0.com
Isn't
Docky kinda anti-Shell? Or Shell is anti-docky?
2009/12/15 seb...@free.fr
Hi
all,
Zeitgeist is a very
On 12/14/2009 02:51 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 01:18 -0500, Mark Curtis wrote:
The car could be the whole GNOME Shell, the stations the applications.
If you're driving a quick flick of the dial/push of button and you can
easy change applications
In GNOME Shell you have
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