--- Christian Neumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In general, we have two ways of dealing with
conflicts
a) collect all conflicts and - after copying the
rest of the files -
provide an UI for resolving them [1]
b) stop at the first conflict, but offer an UI for
setting how to deal
with this
--- Christian Neumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 09.08.2005, 20:57 +0100 schrieb
Joachim Noreiko:
--- Christian Neumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
new ways of dealing with conflicts, like:
* prefix all moved files with: [ bla-2005 ]
I think my second mockup [1] fits very
--- Todd Chambery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joachim,
Looking at your mockup
(http://www.geocities.com/philbull_tk/gnome_dlg_mockup.png),
it
Sorry, I wasn't clear in my previous message.
That mockup isn't mine, it's from a previous message
in the list.
My mockup was submitted to bugzilla
Hi all.
I've just filed a bug [1] that involves a dialog box
that belongs to the desktop.
Something about the way it behaves doesn't seem right.
It's listed as a window in the panel's window list for
one thing.
I was wondering if there's a standard way for desktop
dialog boxes to behave.
If
--- Christian Gentle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The idea behind Dissolving Folders is to allow the
user to
concurrently acknowledge (or at least be aware of)
the contents of a
folder and the contents of its sub-directories,
without the need for
using a Search Command
This is a useful
--- Julien Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I also believe that the desktop shortcut
should be removed from
the places menu in spatial Nautilus (as the desktop
shouldn't be
viewable twice in spatial Nautilus).
Or perhaps the command could reveal the desktop by
minimizing all windows?
--- Christian Neumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why should we replace
buttons by links? Buttons are way more obvious UI
elements. You have to
hover text to releveal that it is a link.
However, with the current buttons it's not immediately
clear that a hierarchy is involved.
When I started
--- Julien Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or perhaps the command could reveal the desktop by
minimizing all windows?
I'm pretty sure it's been discussed before, and the
problem was that
hiding all the windows could be a bit unexpected for
most users. They
might think that
--- Christian Neumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Freitag, den 26.08.2005, 09:59 +0100 schrieb
Joachim Noreiko:
What about curving the sides of the
buttons, or slanting them (to hint at the slash
separator)?
This was IMHO included in the file chooser UI
proposal. I'm can't find
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Command lines are very powerful interfaces, and
can be used to achieve
many tasks simply, quickly and efficiently. For
ordinary use, command
lines could offer a lot of benefits to a user.
How come Gnome terminal doesn't have that feature
--- Vidar Braut Haarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You didn't read the manual, I didn't read the
manual.
Noone reads the manual.
Actually, I do read the manual :)
Maybe not from cover to cover, but I do frequently
click on the Help button in dialogs.
But I'm currently working on my mac, which
--- michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If, in any
case, a Application
is frozen, I should always restart my computer
(although if the rest
of the system responds, I do this nicely) -- no
exceptions. Simple as
that.
I would rather not have to do that.
One of the great things about OS
--- Hynek Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No!
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is useful also when
* there is no graphic output on the display
* graphic output on the display is messed up
(bad resolution etc.)
* Gnome is in some wird state when it is not even
--- Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2005/9/19, Matthew Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd also put the recipient fields underneath the
message body, on the
grounds that sometimes you're not sure exactly who
a message is
appropriate for until you've finished it.
What I think are the
--- Sven Jaborek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
At the moment the login in gdm works exactly like
the one on tty, i like
this consistency! name, enter; password, enter -
thats not to difficult
for people.
Hitting enter in the username field should accept the
username switch focus to the
--- Eric Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's done this way so that the button you're most
likely to want to
select is at the bottom right corner of the
window. It seems a bit
odd if you've been using Windows for years (as
many buttons end up
backwards), but after a while of using it,
--- Matthew Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clickthrough is a mess in Mac OS X
I would agree with that assessment!
Finder:
- click in 'empty space' - focus immediately
- click on object - focus on release, and select
object
- click and drag to current app - don't focus
- click on widgets -
--- Manu Cornet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* The applet list is now two-dimensionnal (icons and
text are put on a
2D canvas).
* Applets are organized into categories.
very nice.
looks a little like OS X's system preferences.
I think I heard that there's a gnome preferences
application
--- Dominique Würtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
often you have a bunch
of checkboxes of
which some have affirming labels (make backup
when saving) and some
negating labels (don't show splash screen on
startup) (sorry, don't
know if these are the correct english terms).
This
leads to
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is general advice elsewhere about using
positive labels (Show rather
than Hide, other things like that). If I recall
correctly it is
relatively early in the guidelines.
I've searched through my local copy of the HIG with
grep, and the online
--- Estradin Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not crazy. Too many applets look awful. Look at
the tray of any
windows desktop... Full of useless applets nobody
ever uses. Mac OS X
tends to this too: when you have airport, fast user
switching,
bluetooth, time date, spotlight, adium,
While we're on the subject of shortcuts for finding...
A number of apps let the user go back as well as
forward in the document when searching. (eg Firefox,
Yelp)
The HIG has CTRL-G for 'Find Next'.
I noticed on Open Usability that there's a text
editor, Scribes, that provides a shortcut for
--- BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My problem with it is that it it consistently forces
me to click on
Browse for other folders each and every time I
want to Save as
I would suggest that the dialog remember whether it is
expanded or not, either across the whole system, or
--- 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
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However I am also unclear on the rationale behind
this. When I hit Esc I
want to escape, and to stop, cancel or close the
current dialog in the
safest most non destructive manner possible.
Yes, I think there's a good case for Esc being a
shortcut
--- Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, one reason to care is that Close and Cancel
buttons do the
complete opposite of each other (keep my changes vs.
discard my
changes),
But they don't do the opposite.
If there is a Close button, then the changes in the
dialog have already been
--- Reinout van Schouwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Op Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:41:57 +, schreef Joachim
Noreiko:
Yes, I think there's a good case for Esc being a
shortcut for the Close
button, as well as CTRL-W.
Just a nitpick, but you probably mean Alt+F4 instead
of Ctrl+W here
--- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From a documentation perspective, please don't. If
we want to
develop desktop-neutral guidelines with other
projects, great.
But people who are reading the HIG shouldn't have to
bounce
back and forth between two documents.
While we're on this
--- 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
--- 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
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
--- 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,
--- 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
--- 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
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]
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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.
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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,
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
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:
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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...
--- 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
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.
--- 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
--- 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
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?
___
Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!.
--- 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
--- 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
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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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:
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
--- 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.
--- 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
--- 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:
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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
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