On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 12:07 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote:
Well this goes a bit off-topic the window control issue but the concept[1]
of finding and reminding is simply not yet implemented in 3.0. Should be
in 3.2 hopefully though.
You can see this work-in-progress here:
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 16:34 -0500, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
While the close operation is common, it's not frequent, and therefore
might not require visual representation on-screen all the time.
Huh, I use the Close button pretty frequently. I guess I'm still
scarred from when Esc didn't
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:52 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
- I have noticed there is an Apps menu which you can use to browse all
installed apps, but there isn't a similar Places menu where you can
browse your favourited folders, external volumes and recently used
files. Wouldn't such a menu make
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:49 +0200, Pierre Benz wrote:
I know that some work is going into the use of Zeitgeist wrt
searching, but I was thinking there must be a nice way of using the
idea behind the Activity Journal and incorporating it directly into
the shell.
This is actually happening!
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 08:04 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
I still think the Calendar should be a separate tab on the overview
that does all that and more, and that clicking on the date/time would
bring you into the overview and take you to that tab.
But I'm not a designer.
You don't need
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:17 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Thanks for that, I feel uncomfortable when people on this mailing
lists think there is some cabal of designers on an ivory tower
drinking ambrosia and sniffing glue.
Even though there isn't an iron-fisted cabal of designers, we *do*
Hi, all,
As many of you know, there is a project called Zeitgeist that is somehow
being integrated into Gnome-shell. In this mail I intend to paint a
picture of what we want to do.
* What is Zeitgeist?
Zeitgeist is ~/.recently-used on steroids. It is a service that keeps a
time-ordered log of
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 17:28 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
I have suggested this in the past, but not because of left handed people
(or anything of that sort) but for sake of proximity to the categories
and, more so, the new workspace panel(pane). It will also minimize mouse
movements across the
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:08 +0200, Elia Cogodi wrote:
Very interesting mail, Elia. You have some very good points.
- Instead of the application grid being triggered by a tab-like
button, it could be a special dash item. Always last, named something
like all applications or more applications,
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:45 +0300, John Stowers wrote:
How does your patch handle the case when the user clicks overview with
no open windows?
Same as before - you get a blank overview. It would be good to show no
windows are open or something.
Federico
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:45 +0300, John Stowers wrote:
In my use of the shell thus far I have *never* used the application
menu. Has anyone?
once, when I wanted to test gnome-games and couldn't remember the name
of anything in
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 12:30 +0200, David Prieto wrote:
I've noticed that the Activities overlay opens automatically whenever
you close all windows from a workspace - which actually makes a lot of
sense, because in order to do anything you need to open it anyway. My
doubt is, why doesn't it
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 16:24 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
What about privacy? Maybe certain activities you don't want showing
up.. for instance, if you're at a conference you don't want people
behind you knowing what you were looking at. That kind of thing?
Respecting private browsing
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 01:46 +0200, Korbé wrote:
- An entry in the Application Menu (in the top panel of GS) nammed Forget
thisvactivity or a button in the title bar of the window. When you choose
it, the system don't record what you do.
See my mail to Sri; I put in a similar example
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:08 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
I'm not convinced that a journal view is beneficial. Why do I need to
know which day or week I touched something? Most of the time, I just
want to see what I handled recently (trip and slip) and what I've marked
to come back to (the grip).
It's Monday, your first school day after a short vacation from the
Easter holiday. Before vacation, you had been working on writing
several reports about your recent field research on the coiling habits
of the boa constrictor.
After blowing away a thin layer of dust from your computer (what's
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 02:29 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
Wall of text incoming.
Thanks for the detailed comments, Jasper. This is very useful.
OK, it seems you have two different concepts lumped under Reminders.
In something like this, it seems like it's an automatic aggregation
that
Hi, everyone,
I finally got off my ass and finished the paper prototypes for Finding
and Reminder. This is the journal and reminders that I posted about the
other day in the Narrative for Finding and Reminding thread.
Since posting pictures to this list is awkward, I've put the narrative
and
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 03:50 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
[Incoming email doesn't go into the reminders]
OK. Is there some place unread email *can* go?
Your mail program's Inbox, as always.
I want the Reminders area to be a) completely under your control; b) not
a constant firehose. It's
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:47 +1200, John Stowers wrote:
This happens 10s of times per day for me when reading/managing papers.
Yeah. Don't you hate Citeseer for its stupid filenames? :)
Fortunately addressing this particular annoyance seems to be the goal of
the 'Document Centric GNOME'
Yesterday on IRC, Allan Day kindly gave me some feedback about the
Finding and Reminding prototypes that I posted a while ago [1].
With his permission, I'll reply here in the list, to keep it referenced.
(03:21:48 PM) aday: federico: so about your finding and reminding
thingamy
(03:22:21
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:25 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
I agree with Allan's concern that the overview might not be the right
place for managing things. It's meant to find, click and close. Dragging
a file to the reminders in the overview would really be painful if you
need to click and
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 22:08 +0100, Maximilian Eberl wrote:
If one has it, one wants to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Here, have some medicine.
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On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 10:07 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
The fact that extension authors are itching to dump their preferences
into the control center is actually a good argument for keeping that
door locked.
That's why they are *extensions*; the user is responsible for what he
needs and for
On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 23:26 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
what I personally don't understand is why are you complaining on the
shell list instead of filing bugs against the apps that have windows
too high to fit. how is the shell, or Gnome 3 for that matter,
responsible for apps behaving
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 22:07 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:47:26PM +0200, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
It already works, there is no dark magic behind having a visible Power Off
button. The Gnome Shell UI however seems to wish it could communicate that
the user has to press
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 13:44 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true
Ooooh. This is saving me so many clicks a day! Thanks!
Federico
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On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 10:44 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
On vie, 2011-10-07 at 10:29 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote:
I think most of the underlying tech is here already: unity use a
protocol through which the applications describes its menu. Then it is
up to the shell to decide how to
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 12:47 -0700, Gavin Engel wrote:
Federico, that is a very interesting read. One thing I wanted to
point out is that there is a pseudo-Global-menu extension for
GNOME: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/get-global-menu-in-gnome-shell.html
What do you think?
Wow, that's
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