In an instant messaging / chat interface, is there a
term for the bit where the user types text?
Answers on a postcard.
Or http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373761
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On 11/11/06, Jason Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When having to resort many directories of
files... I would like
the
feature to open all directories in a Flat
view... in other
words, I
want to see all file in all the selected
directories as if
--- Sebastian Heinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 09.11.2006, 12:38 -0800 schrieb
Matthew Paul Thomas:
* Find is a more positive name than Search.
Find is used for a search that only covers the
currently opened data
set, e.g. a search in a web page or abiword
--- Baptiste Mille-Mathias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did some work on the bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369053 to
improve the
search/replace dialog; I just wanted to ear your
comments and thoughts
about that change.
I posted screenshots of the search original dialog
at
--- Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
...
--- Baptiste Mille-Mathias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did some work on the bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369053
to improve the
search/replace dialog; I just
--- Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
wrote:
...
What's the current stance on things like
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143592
and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143594?
...
Explaining
--- Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/30/06, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
A bug was filed over a year ago (
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654
). The author of
gnome-screensaver responded with:
I don't have any plans to support this.
My
--- Reed Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One problem is using the word eject as a synonym
for unmount
snip
This is a general problem with the words eject and
unmount, not with
this mock-up-- if the terminology were to be changed
it would have to be
done throughout Gnome.
Agreed.
I've
--- Reed Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:35:42AM +0100, Joachim
Noreiko wrote:
As the Mac-style menubar is likely to take some
time,
it might be a good idea to look at renaming the
Menu
Bar in the interim (or in fact, just *naming*
it).
It's regularly
--- Maurizio Colucci [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Never mind, I found the problem: in keyboard
preferences - layout options
- group/shift-lock behavior, I had to disable both
alt keys together
change group.
Urg.
Why do we even have this ugly little tab section?
I understand these options are
--- Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have sticky keys enabled, you should be able
to make alt be
pressed and held (not sure if this has a technical
term) by hitting
alt twice.
If this wasn't properly explained in the GNOME
accessibility guide, please file a bug :)
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again I do not uses workspaces and anyone who does
has gone past being
what I consider an ordinary user.
I used to think this too.
However, Apple's inclusion of Spaces in the next
version of OS X makes a rethink in order perhaps.
From the demo
--- Ritesh Khadgaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:34 +0200, Steve Frécinaux
wrote:
Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
Perhaps the following features would define a
spatial
app:
1. moving the file in the file manager doesn't
disturb
the app it's open in
why
--- Mystilleef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, Scribes is another spatial text editor
for GNOME, and yes,
I am a developer. :-)
http://scribes.sourceforge.net/
It may have changed, but last time I looked Scribes
didn't respect the HIG.
Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
Hey,
Out of curiosity, Why is nautilus spatial and the
rest of desktop
not ?
(Sorry, lost the original post...)
Perhaps the following features would define a spatial
app:
1. moving the file in the file manager doesn't disturb
the app it's open in
2.
Should buttons in a search dialog be labelled Find
(like in gedit), Next (like the Character Map), or
Find Next (yelp's find bar)?
Could we add Find dialogs to our list of GUI recipes
for the HIG?
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I've just noticed this dialog in Evolution:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=68780action=view
It's a search interface that allows the user to add
and remove criteria.
It looks sort of similar to the new search in
Nautilus, except... it's not. For starters the 'Add'
button seems to be
Bug 301690 requests a line of description text in
Nautilus's Select pattern dialog.
I'd appreciate suggestions from the usability list, as
I am having trouble thinking of something suitable.
Enter a pattern to select files with.
With? or 'by'? Seems all backwards.
Enter a pattern and Nautilus
--- Simon Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/26/06, Francesco Stablum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The problem is that there are two clipboard
buffers and it can be very
annoying and conterintuitive to new unix/gnome
users. Why not making a
single buffer?
Most users new to Unix are
--- Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:26:49 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:
Try to open an MP3 file in Nautilus, and you get a
'application could not
be found' message, which is unhelpful and untrue.
Replace that with something that says why the MP3
--- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All,
I am not sure if you have seen this article
(apparently it appeared on SlashDot).
http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/
The reason I am mentioning it on the usability list
is that he has many ideas for the utilisation of
pop-up dialogues that
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another part of it is education, to try and make
sure users understand we
cannot play formats such as MP3 out of the box due
to legal hazards.
Much as we might like to ignore the issue and give
users what they want we
cannot afford to as it will
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, is the find tool made redundant by the
new
Nautilus searching? And if not, how are the two
meant
to work together?
I doubt it. I'd expect the find tool to include
more advanced options and
for the built in tool to keep it simple.
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is good to try and find ways to reduce the
learning curve of the
command line but I'm not sure this idea would really
work well as part of
the graphical user interface. I do think it would
be great to have a page
in the documentation of the
--- Toni Milovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suggested concept is simple. For instance if user
can divide desktop
into six zones and specify for example:
- all folders go to zone 1
- all links to zone 2
- all sxw or odt to zone 3
- all files that contains *customer* in the filename
to zone
--- Dan Winship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, it's a question with no answer, since
we refuse to define
who Gnome's users are. :-/
This business of needing to know who our users are --
or rather who our targetted users are -- keeps coming
up.
But why?
We have in front of us an OS
--- Gabriel Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In nautilus and f-spot, if you select an item and
then hold shift+ctrl
and click on another item, it will select the second
item, but not
select the items in between. On Windows it would
select the range.
The HIG doesn't seem to address this
--- Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Also, a
special type for splash screens makes a _lot_ of
sense -- they need
special handling too such as no window decorations,
don't give them
focus, place them centered onscreen, don't allow
them to be
closed/shaded/resized/moved, don't put
--- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Diego González [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Clicking on the Address book card would show a
dialog very simmilar to
the current evolution new contact dialog.
What do you think about this new UI? how can it be
improved?
If the GNOME standard
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I were on slashdot I might use 'insensative clod'
cliche since not
everyone has a job (or cares enough about it to fill
in that information)
The texts of the two labels don't really match.
Either
'Home' 'Work'
or
'Personal' 'Professional'
I'd
--- Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a few bug reports I'm not sure how to
resolve:
Bug 331835 [1] - Missing maximize button (in Theme
Preferences)
I think what the reporter really wants is a 'smart
resize' button like Mac OS has had for years. But we
don't have that...
I
--- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'Automatic Save Every Five Minutes' makes me feel
like
I'm being shouted out, or at best, e-nun-cia-ted
to
like I'm a bit slow.
It does, however, allow you to use it in a sentence
without quoting
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:51 +0100, Thomas Wood
wrote:
So definitely should be fixed? I could never see
any use case for having
the capplet open multiple times, so if it gets the
approval of the
usability team, then I will make sure it is
--- Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could anyone give me some advice on bug 149323 (HIG
issues with Theme
Preferences). The issue is that the theme manager
often takes longer
than one second to apply a theme, so therefore it
should not be instant
apply. Would it be acceptable to
--- Travis Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The current alacarte UI [1] mixes application and
dialog interfaces.
I'd like to make it a dialog but that seems to make
adding features
like undo/redo and cut/copy/paste impossible.
CTRL Z, CTRL SHIFT Z, CTRL X,C,V.
You can expect your
--- Sarah Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could this be applied in a release in the near
future? Making the applications ego-less, as the
author calls it, would be a further step towards
making developers think fo the end goals of the
software and the tasks we users perform:
--- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/8/06, Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I find it infuriating to close a document and
still
have some useless
shell I never asked for to remain hanging
around.
But you
--- Sarah Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whilst hardware detection is beyond the scope of
this forum, cnetralising all hardware in a
infomration program like KInfoCenter is extremely
convenient nad provides a wealth of knowledge in a
central location. A dial-up tool that automatically
can
--- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/7/06, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It's certainly infuriating to close the last tab
in a window in
preparation for starting a new document, only to
realise that you then
need to go and launch the application again first.
--- Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 2, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
...
The layouts selection dialog shows you the diagram
of the keyboard.
This has problems of its own: the dialog is as big
as it can be, but
the diagram is too small to be useful
--- Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
--- Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Absolutely. What is the list for? Windows has a
list labelled
Installed keyboard languages and layouts. I can
kind of understand
--- Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I guess this reality is unfortunate from a
documentation writer's
point of view, because it means you need to spend
more time crafting
helpful sentences and posting them in Bugzilla, and
less time crafting
helpful paragraphs and
--- Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, maybe a lightbulb tip could be shown that
users can drag pictures
to the icon field.
It's best to avoid putting documentation in the
interface. (There's a note in the HIG about this.)
When this dialog is implemented, I'm sure Vincent
--- Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you prefer the dialog we have in nautilus?
(right-click on .desktop
file in nautilus) We could work to use this one
everywhere, but I find
the dialog really bloated for editing a launcher on
the panel.
I agree that it's bloated, but I wish
--- Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And why does it say wallpaper anyway? Is the
style
guide not clear enough?
wallpaper: Do not use this term. Use the term
desktop
background.
There were dissenting voices at the time, but at the
end of the day,
the maintainer gets the
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Point-in-case. Microsoft doesn't use the term
Wallpaper in their config
dialog either. The tab in the Display Properties is
titled Desktop,
and the label for the list is titled Background:.
So, no, it isn't
just following Microsoft.
Egad!
I
I'm working on updating the user guide for this
preference tool, and there's a few things I'd like
your opinion on.
Is 'Selected Layouts' a good choice of label? I'm
about to write'To remove a layout, select it and press
Remove'. But hang on... they're *all* selected,
they're called Selected
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The standard GTK+ colour picker dialog supports
taking colours from
anywhere on the screen
The colour picker dialog is on the list of system-wide
things to document in the User Guide, as it has a few
hidden features like this.
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Through we now have Scribus under QT, there is
still a notable lack of
applications in this area.
It would be a lot of work to develop and maintain
any fully featured
Desktop Publishing software. I'm impressed how
Scribus has been sucessful
in
--- Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I strongly
feel that close sucks for that dialog and that
finish is much
better. (Which is why I gave one approval to the UI
change despite
the inconsistency we knew it would introduce; others
objected strongly
on the consistency
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firstly though, a negative. I wish to lobby
strongly against the Windows
XP-style start menu proposed by Novell:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13589comment_id=93581
This appears to be a definite step backwards for
us. The
--- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:32 +, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:
Whoever put 'Finish' there,
knowing full well it would stick out like a sore
thumb, needs a good slap.
This tone is not acceptable. Please be nice.
Fair enough. I apologize.
But we
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consistency is good.
Consistency is good. But what is consistent is
arguable, and usability
should take precedence.
No, the two must go hand in hand.
Users are quite capable of getting in a tizzy about
inconsistencies: why does that pref tool
How do I describe a button that only says '...' ?
Eg, in the Keyboard prefs, Layouts tab.
Ccing to the usability list -- does the HIG say
anything about this? Should it?
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--- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These are largely what I was referring to, as well
as
some of the icons in iTunes:
http://kwc.org/blog/archives/desktop.itunes.jpg
You know, I'm so used to those I didn't think of them.
(What is that a shot of, by the way? It's not OS X but
--- Yevgen Muntyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shaun McCance wrote:
Honestly, this behavior is viciously annoying. I
do use
PRIMARY a lot, and I usually smack people whenever
they
advocate dropping it.
Well, folks on gtk-devel-list seem to have different
opinion
about this ;) This
--- Yevgen Muntyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand very well that this mode is just wrong
for those who
like/believes current GTK behavior is correct, and
what I really would love
to hear is what people think about ability to have
multiple selections.
I've just tried this with Gedit
I saw Callum's edits to the wiki page on the HIG and
it's reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask
for a while:
How do we update the HIG?
In the months I've been on this list there have been
several topics where there was a consensus that
something should be added to the HIG. (The matter
Shortly before the 2.14 release I took part in a few
usability reviews on IRC. In the last couple of weeks,
I've seen a few screenshots of work in progress on new
applications or tools.
In all occasions, fairly basic mistakes in GUI design
have leapt out at me within seconds: why is that label
I've always been aware of the ellipsis on menus.
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The definition is quite clear and is in the HIG:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-design.html
* Label the menu item with a trailing ellipsis
(...) only if the
command
--- Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If there aren't any other people who feel like me
that there should be a
0 icon to represent, I'm happy to go with your
suggested improvement
that the 0% volume is shown as low instead of
muted as it is now.
I agree with you entirely.
0 is a
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The icon makes absolutely no sense. There's no
reason to have a single
icon for 1/101 values, and 3 others for 33.33../100
values each. And by
your argument that a single ) is not representative
of the 0% level, the
same can be said for no ), as
Another vocab question:
The User Guide section 'Basic Skills' lists things it
calls 'Mouse actions': click, double-click, drag, etc.
But then it says:
You can perform the following actions with the mouse:
Left mouse button
* Select text.
* Select items.
* Drag items.
--- William Jon McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Joachim and Matthew,
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
...
I have been giving this some more thought.
For the idle time label, how about one of:
Treat the computer as idle after
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As ideally Epiphany doesn't get started every day so
it's not unusual
for me to open a tab in Ephy on Monday and not get
around to closing it
until Friday
I worry how much global warming GNOME developers are
responsible for...
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Epiphany with 15 tabs open. Press the window
manager close button and
*poof* all gone.
File a bug. ;)
I *hate* accidentally hitting Ctrl-W when typing into
a web form.
This is why I don't have the window icon button but
have Close on the
left
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dont know the answer to your question but perhaps
someone else on this
list will know.
I have seen this issue mentioned on the Ubuntu wiki,
but I don't know if there's been any discussion of it
on Gnome.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsabilityWishlist
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would suggest we strip the old and unused Main
Menu of its name, and use it for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331459
Some of us don't use the double panel setup, so I'd
be reluctant to reuse
that bit of terminology just yet.
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:12:27 + (GMT)
From: Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Gnome usability usability@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Usability] What
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
current Gnome defaults. IIRC there is a main
menu
applet which is
different from and more extensive than the
foot+Applications menu, which
might still need the term you want to use.
Yes
Is there anything in the HIG about describing actions
in general rather than specific terms?
Eg, for label text, having
Run executable text files when they are opened
instead of
Run executable text files when they are
double-clicked
-- because a user might open a file with the menu
command, or
--- Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(BTW, the actual label says Run executable text
files
when they are clicked. I've filed a bug.)
...this is valid in my case (I don't use
double-click anywhere where I
can avoid it).
But not in the default gnome setup. Say 'open' and it
works
--- Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 17:46 +, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:
* can the user do anything with the mouse while
the
busy pointer is shown?
Depends which one. GDK_WATCH no,
that's the one I meant. thanks.
the one with the
pointer still showing
--- Christian Neumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear usability list,
I'd appreciate if some of you could comment on the
permissions user
interface proposed under [1].
Thanks in advance!
[1]
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/cneumair/2006/03/06/0
Looks good.
But I wonder: could this be
--- William Jon McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Joachim,
Joachim Noreiko wrote:
[snip]
This caused us a number of headaches in the UI
review,
and the more I think about it, the more illogical
it
seems, for a number of reasons.
My recollection was that the difficulty
This is something that cropped up in the recent UI
reviews we did.
The gnome-screensaver has a control Set session as
idle after..., which sets the session idle time.
It doesn't necessarily start the screensaver after
this time, you need to also check a box:
Set session as idle after:
This is a problem I had with my ADSL modem, and I've
just spoken to someone on IRC with a similar problem
with a modem.
There doesn't seem to be a way to get GNOME to
automatically connect to the internet when required,
eg when requesting a url in a browser.
You have to go via the network
--- Simon Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think these are before and after the patch was
applied. i.e. the
before pictures are how the Epiphany menus
previously appeared, and
the after pictures are how they appear now.
Yes, that's what I understood too.
But whether pre- or post-patch,
--- Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi guys,
A new way of showing/hiding individual toolbars was
introduced in this
release cycle of Epiphany. We've found that the UI
for this still has some
rough edges that we would like to polish, but
because we're in UI and
string
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't submit in iTunes,
I see a menu item in iTunes 'submit CD track names'.
Currently greyed out, but I don't have a CD in...
and they use the
commercial Gracenote CDDB
service. I refuse to support FreeDB as it's data is
utter pants.
Is
--- Alexey Rusakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Alexey Rusakov wrote:
Thomas Winwood wrote:
GNOME has the image in the Linux community of
being simplistic or
featureless due to its preference not to add an
option for
--- Diego Moya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about a pen writing on a paper sheet? A pen
writing on a hardisk
makes no sense.
The problem I see with arrow-in-a-hard-disk is that
non-geek people
have no idea at all how a harddisk looks (or even
what it is - they
usually call it the
--- John Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, there does seem to be some sort
of weird logic to the
layout: My 512 MB flash drive is exactly one half
the view's width,
while my 120 GB hard drive is 100%. Another,
external hard drive is
about 90% the width of the view. The
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I skimmed trough it and a lot of 'reviewing' is
done based on outdated
screenshots.
As the author and maintainer of gparted i'm very
open to usability
advice, so maybe we can pick up this discussion
again?
The big problem with GParted is that
--- Sven Jaborek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You wrote you are not a programmer or developer,
well as the words
open source explain, its all about source that has
to be written by
someone. Therefore programmers start projects. But
good luck!
That would go a long way towards explaining why so
--- Daniel F Moisset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then why not an arrow going into a folder icon?
What concerns me about that is that the silhouette of
the icon might look very similar to the Open icon,
which is also a folder.
--- Tomasz Janowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GNOME has the utterly
stupid middle-click paste feature which means for
most users, that the
'select something, then paste to replace it' idiom
simply doesn't
work. So pasting URLs is likely not very common.
How would the middle-click
--- Sven Jaborek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i wonder if its possible to show sudo'ed
applications with different
gtk/metacity themes. The target is to get users
attention.
Anyone here who knows about metacity and can tell if
this mockup would
be possible?
--- Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:58 +, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:
There is actually a bug in gksudo currently: if
you
choose a theme that is installed in your home
folder,
sudo'd applications fallback to the default GTK
theme.
I believe
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So only a few people interested in heavily branding
their product actually
want splash screens,
Bluefish, gimp, OpenOffice that I can think of all use
them.
users dont want them and
startup notification covers
any technical excuse there might have
--- Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:54 +, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:
One criticism levelled at the current File save
dialog
is that it's not very useful in its collapsed
form.
The folders it suggests aren't necessarily the
ones
you want.
Another
--- David Tenser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again, this should be a discussion about merging two
small, mostly
empty panels into a single one. I'd like to hear
opinions primarily
about that, and secondarily about the specific
details in _my_
particular suggestion.
The fundamental problem I
Whether to right-align text labels was recently a
topic of discusssion here. [1]
Was a decision taken on this in the end?
I ask because the proposed changes to the Nautilus
file properties dialog switch the labels from
right-aligned to left-aligned. [2]
[1]
--- Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- use the 'open' command to launch an app or
document as if I double-clicked it
You can use gnome-open for that.
Ah, I didn't know that. Longer to type though.
- drag icons from the file manager to command line
input
That works with the GNOME
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It still violates the HIG though.
Hmm I've always seen the HIG as something
designed to make user
interfaces more intuitive. So, I find your claims
about a tool
designed almost completely for efficiency and
power over intuitiveness
--- Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:32:16PM +0100, Tomasz
Janowitz wrote:
I have a question regarding gnome-terminal
shortcuts, namely: what are the
'shift's standing for ? Wouldn't it be easier to
have them as in other apps
? 'ctrl+t' - new tab,
One criticism levelled at the current File save dialog
is that it's not very useful in its collapsed form.
The folders it suggests aren't necessarily the ones
you want.
Another idea that's been floating around is that there
should be an action that lets you save to an open
Nautilus window. The
--- Michael Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can download the source code and see an animated
image of the
dialog at:
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/ui/pddemo.html
I'm just going by the animated image, but it looks
good. A possible contender in the wider 'tabs are
evil' debate?
Some
--- Josue Farde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there is another BIG problem with gnome at the
moment that i have
experienced, after instalation and after being st up
gnome does not work
very well when it comes to pass the image into the
screen, i've been
experiencing lots of problems,like lines
--- Josue Farde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
to make it more
friendly and
aceptable to everybody there is a need to change the
graphics. They look
old and 'taky', for the user to have a better
feelling when using gnome,
gnome needs to to heve a more modern look.
To be usable, controls do
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