Re: Release Notes time!
We are now under a month from release - and we need your help! Thank you to those of you who have added content for the Release Notes, but I have a nagging suspicion we're missing some stuff. We have so far: Users: * GNOME Shell overview panel fall back * Apps: Control Center, Cheese, Evince and Nautilus Developers: * Anjuta, Cheese * Developer docs * GNOME Panel Are there more apps? What about GTK3 for developers? Accessibility? Thanks for your help! Paul On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Dear developers, I heard a rumor that GNOME 3.0 has some small changes to the GNOME desktop and GNOME development platform. Assuming that rumor is true, it's time for you to tell us what those changes are! Please update the release notes page on live.gnome.org[1] - please explain the changes in the UI, apps, a11y, development and more. Link to blog posts, wiki pages or mailing list posts if they have additional detail. Please be aware that the writers of the release notes will come to you with questions if additional detail is needed. Nothing is too small and we'll do our best to get everything in. For past examples, please review the 2.31 page on the wiki as well.[2] Thanks in advance for your help. Please let me or the marketing team know if you have any questions. Paul [1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/ReleaseNotes [2] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ReleaseNotes ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Interested in GNOME on touchscreens?
On 6 Mar 2011, at 16:12, Bastien Nocera wrote: I've recently installed Fedora 15 on a slate computer (in addition to trying to fix support for my desktop computer), and started testing out GNOME Shell and GNOME 3 on it. I came up with a number of problems we have with touch interfaces in GNOME as a whole: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/Touchscreen Very useful, thanks. The new HIG (yes, I know we still haven't really produced any of it so far) will certainly be written with at least one eye on future touchscreen usage, so it's good to know what kind of shape we're in right now. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Interested in GNOME on touchscreens?
Michael: On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 16:12 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: Feel free to add problems that you might find, or start discussing potential fixes for the various problems on this list. For the on-screen keyboard (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ScreenKeyboard), one could consider adapting the MeeGo keyboard (see http://wiki.meego.com/Meego_Input_Methods) It was designed with handhelds and slate devices in mind, so it would be only a matter of writing a clutter input context. It should be easy to adapt it to the GNOME Shell look, too. It would be nice if an on-screen keyboard were integrated directly into the shell. I think it would be good to discuss this opportunity on the gnome-accessibility-de...@gnome.org mailing list. I wonder if this code might be useful to the Caribou project. An on-screen keyboard GUI probably would not need to be coded in Clutter to look well integrated with GNOME Shell, unless there is some advantage to coding the GUI in JavaScript, I'd think. I know the GOK program had a nice feature that allowed you to navigate application menus via the GOK interface. This provided for a faster and more configurable way to navigate application menus for a11y users. Some of these sorts of techniques might also be useful to the general user, making it easier to navigate the desktop for users who cannot use keyboards or who are using touch screen devices. There are probably opportunities to integrate these sorts of features more deeply in the shell. For example, defining mouse gestures to do common things, providing features to quickly navigate application menus directly in the underlying code, or to make it possible for users to define mouse gestures like you can keybindings. Surely, good on-screen and touch-screen keyboard support is important for GNOME Shell to work well on certain devices. I would think the same program could support both features. Brian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Interested in GNOME on touchscreens?
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 14:51 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: An on-screen keyboard GUI probably would not need to be coded in Clutter to look well integrated with GNOME Shell, unless there is some advantage to coding the GUI in JavaScript, I'd think. The main selling point for an on-screen keyboard implemented in GNOME Shell itself is not the look, but rather that it would work in the overview without jumping through hoops. Florian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Interested in GNOME on touchscreens?
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:05 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 14:51 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: An on-screen keyboard GUI probably would not need to be coded in Clutter to look well integrated with GNOME Shell, unless there is some advantage to coding the GUI in JavaScript, I'd think. The main selling point for an on-screen keyboard implemented in GNOME Shell itself is not the look, but rather that it would work in the overview without jumping through hoops. Well, beyond that, it would interact properly with all the UI elements. E.g., if I'm responding to a chat from a notification that slides out at the bottom of my screen, that notification needs to be moved up above the onscreen keyboard when the onscreen keyboard is open. - Owen ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
