I had filed a bug report on this issue:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-applet/+bug/519553
I, too, have seen the negative effects of it at this point. It hasn't
been as pronounced as my original doomsday prediction, but it is
troubling.
To be honest I'm not
When I'm teaching people how to use computers - I tell them to think of the
right button as the 'menu button' (the word *context* is off-putting to
many).
This drastically improves their ability to interact with the desktop and
predict what behaviour is expected of them. It makes sense to them
2010/6/16 Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com
Plus, with this mockup, you need an inidicator icon/menu for each
class of application that might put things in the notification area?
No. Just for the corner cases that cannot use libappindicator and
never will, like Wine and Java. Are there
On 04/25/2010 04:04 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 19:28 -0300, Paulo J. S. Silva wrote:
I do believe that the best balance would be to prompt the user in
specific moments (log-out, before suspend/lock) with a dialog that has
as default option to apply the updates. The
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Tyler Brainerd wrote on 12/05/10 02:48:
Looking at the mockups for the new SoundMenu design
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu, which looks great, my one concern
is for consistency. Right now, with all the new applets, we have a
myriad of
On 16 June 2010 14:54, Omer Akram om2...@gmail.com wrote:
the 'about me' and 'users and groups' will be replaced by User accounts
diagloue in maverick.
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:39 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote:
Hi all,
This has been bugging me for a little while. Most of the dialogs
the 'about me' and 'users and groups' will be replaced by User
accounts
diagloue in maverick.
You mean the User Accounts dialog [1] that has been developed by Fedora?
This is going to be part of GNOME 3.0 (I think).
Allan
[1]
Platform team is reviewing unclutter for inclusion in the default
install and session.
MPT, you might want to provide guidance on the upgrade experience - this
should be added to sessions after update.
Mark
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On 14/06/10 18:59, nickwinl...@comcast.net wrote:
My message is to the passive group or those who lurk.. Please note
that ``duped'' isn't a word. That is what you all should work on
fixing technologically and socially in the future, and not creating
new branches or nodes from the same tree
2010/6/16 Jarlath Reidy jarlathre...@gmail.com
*(The only thing that catches them out is when to single-click and when to
double-click, but explaining the difference between the file-manager,
desktop, web-browser and toolbars etc comes later. )*
When I realized that the difference is totally
On 16 June 2010 09:51, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On 16/06/10 11:45, Jarlath Reidy wrote:
Having a different menu for each button seems to fall between two
lines of thinking and personally, I get caught out all the time by the
current setup - I can't remember which button to
Kristoffer, calm down.
This is a brainstorm phase. None of the ideas proposed so far were
proposed in the most polished form possible, and there are many other
possible ideas to consider.
It is a little bit premature to conclude that keeping the notification
area exactly as it is for Wine apps
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Dylan McCall wrote on 14/05/10 18:19:
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I was listening to the dx-m-indicator-sound session at UDS-M. I'm
really looking forward to the work on this now! (Although I couldn't
find the Gobby document). Kudos for using existing specifications (eg:
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Jarlath Reidy wrote on 11/05/10 23:37:
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I'm wondering if the current form of the file-transfer dialog is up for
discussion. I wanted to dismiss this dialog (see attachment). I was
fairly certain that the red X to the right would abort the copy
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote:
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Tyler Brainerd wrote on 12/05/10 02:48:
Looking at the mockups for the new SoundMenu design
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu, which looks great, my one concern
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:48, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote:
It's just a menu, it's not reinventing the audio system.
..yet it's close to reinventing the audio backend's interface to the
technically unaware user.
The menu should give easiest access to the volume of the primary
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 17:04, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote:
To avoid that kind of confusion, a progress window -- a window that
embodies a task the computer is completing, and closes itself when done
- -- should not have a close button in its title bar at all.
thank you.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 00:29, Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.comwrote:
In 2008 I wrote a specification for Nautilus's progress window.
http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus/ProgressWindow
nce!
you did that in '08 already?
the item's name shouldn't be in the title? why is that?
sorry
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:36, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
The panel is meant to be detached from the rest of the desktop. That
means it looks the same on all workspaces no matter what window is
currently focused.
Workspaces were not part of my point, not relevant to my
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:08, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On 15/06/10 07:37, Philipp Wendler wrote:
So I definitely would like to have an easy way to start a VPN
connection (directly in the indicator). It is like this even on my
cellphone, which has very limited screen space.
That picture makes me think of osx. I like what your sayiin tho.
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