Hi, Haven't seen you a week now. Where have you been ?
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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