How is it ? What do you think ? ^^ On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Paul, Sorry for reply late. > > I get it now. At first I though that I should make a specific topic for a > mail. ^^ Sorry that I did a mess, please let me re-compile it into one: > > 1. Remove the top bar and embed everything with the Unity dock on the > left. > > The reason to do so is that top bar take precious vertical space because > most of the screens are now wide screen. A netbook user face a hard time > that I cannot reach the 'close' button of some windows such as nautilus > configuration dialog. (The 1024x600 screen has less vertical space though) > So I hope the widgets on gnome panel can be ported to the dock. > > As the clip I attached, I hadn't use gnome-panel for a long time. By remove > it from /usr/bin/ and using docky or glx-dock, life is easier. > > Full-screen apps would have 100% of _height_ but less width << Yep, we > need a full width only when we were watching a widescreen movies so why not > using it. > > 2. Change how's windows being controlled. Now, I have came up with 2 ideas > > - 2.1 Make a window control plugin which generate an icon that always stay > at the top of Unity dock. Tap on the icon appears a special stack menu with > title of the active window, the stack contains icons for > Close/Minimize/Maximize Buttons, File, Edit, View ... etc. > > I haven't tried making this one yet. It just came up a moment ago. In fact, > I want to remake the window manager but I thought that that's impossible for > now. So this one may easier and less confuse than the 2.2 since there's a > title on the stack after being tapped on. > > - 2.2 Use a second panel at the right-handed of the screen as a windows > control dock. Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons, File, Edit, View ... etc. > also has it's own icon. > > As far as I tried, both only works if every windows assume to be a > fullscreen application. Otherwise, you will get a bit confuse. But you may > get used to it very soon. > > > From here on is another topic that I was planning to purpose : > > 3. Stack docklets for Unity dock > > This is a need. We don't want to scroll endlessly for an only item, do we > ? ^^ > > 4. Unity dock customizable, e.g. icon size should be adjustable and the > dock itself should be theme-able and may be able to add additional columns > if the user want to. > > Theming and customize at will is one of the best features for linux. Sadly, > GDM overlooked them and make changes without any solution for convert or > support old themes, so the GDM 2 had many complains. I think many theme > developer given up because of the change. Is there any plan for them ? > > PS. I'm just an armature in computer OS and programming but I has some > experience with C and Python. I love doing designs. Please let me know if > you had anything for me to help. I'm testing the Alpha from time to time and > will let you know my opinion. I hope I could be useful for the community. > I'm doing a mock up for what I think it would be look like. Hope you take it > into consideration. > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Paul Sladen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote: >> > > A panel is not a thing for touch. In fact, it's really hard to touch >> it >> > No one interesting in this topic? >> >> Hello Thamawij, >> >> I tried to cover and answer all the three original emails in a single >> reply. Eg. talking about the small size of targets, I pointed at the >> more gobal multi-touch gestures language. >> >> As noted in the other email it was quite hard to grasp the other all >> high-level context. It was not my intent and to have overlooked >> anything in particular. Could you highlight anything that was missed >> specifically? >> >> -Paul >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >
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