On 7/15/07, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Jul 2007, at 15:45, Jesse Ross wrote: > > > Does OuterSpace need an icon? Right now, it's using the default > > Application icon, but I don't know if that's because it's going to > > eventually use the flower icon (that triggers the terminal) or what > > the idea is. If we do need one, let me know and I'll mock it up for > > the LiveCD.
I am open-mind on this issue, but OuterSpace may be repleaced by another one later. So you can make the icon more generic. > > > > Alternately, if it is going to eventually use the flower icon, we > > may want to just swap it so that it uses that now, and change the > > flower icon that is there to the Terminal icon, so that it's a bit > > more obvious what that will do. I've attached a mockup of what I > > was thinking. > > I'd vote for option 2. I don't find having the flower launch a > terminal at all intuitive. I'd rather see OuterSpace or something > similar launched from it. Maybe make a terminal another thing that > stays in the dock. > > While I'm moaning about usability, is it possible to have the AZDock > anchor itself to a corner, rather than the middle of the screen? At > the moment, adding a new app to it moves every other icon in the > dock, which is terribly bad for motor memory. Let's not copy Apple's > bad decisions[1]. I agree. It is the UI issue, which we need to discuss a overall picture. Actually I draft an email for this topic and plan to send it out after 0.2 release. Maybe I can do that sooner. So I will classify this bug as "later". Yen-Ju > > David > > [1] On OS X, you can fix this behaviour by setting the com.apple.dock > pinning default to start. Apple's dock has a couple of undocumented > features. I also like setting 'hidden' to 1, which makes the icons > for apps you have hidden translucent. > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
