Re: [Ayatana] The top right thing

2011-04-18 Thread Carl Simpson
Google fu confirms the name Session Menu. https://wiki.edubuntu.org/SessionMenu 2011/4/18 Jim Campbell jwcampb...@gmail.com The documentation team is wondering what to call the power-looking icon in the top right of the screen. Someone started a thread to discuss the matter using the

Re: [Ayatana] Dynamic menu items

2011-04-16 Thread Carl Simpson
Just because you don't think its a problem and its fine the way it is That's not what he means. :) He means that you should start a design by clearly identifying what you are improving- a so-called problem statement. Problem statements might be things like: Bob frequently uses the save, print

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Simpson
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/disable-appmenu-global-menu-in-ubuntu.html You can also use the classic gnome session if you want to use the old panel applets. Offering a new shell by default, with certain default options, is hardly limiting you, or offering you the proverbial highway. 2011/4/15

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-15 Thread Carl Simpson
21:47, Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/disable-appmenu-global-menu-in-ubuntu.html You can also use the classic gnome session if you want to use the old panel applets. Offering a new shell by default, with certain default options, is hardly

[Ayatana] Grid snapping and corresponding animations are sloppy in function and appearance.

2011-04-11 Thread Carl Simpson
The grid animations look ever so slightly rubbish, for a number of reasons. One which is more of a “design decision” is this: because of the way snap animations start to appear when you're sorta-maybe-nearby to the screen edge, I seem to get a number of abortive animations, usually popping in and

Re: [Ayatana] Compiz default animations are too fast

2011-04-07 Thread Carl Simpson
There is. They fade out. 2011/4/6 Ian Santopietro isan...@gmail.com Ah, I see that now. There isn't a default close animation though, at least not for normal windows. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 07:22, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen mikkel.kamst...@canonical.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-06 at

Re: [Ayatana] Compiz default animations are too fast

2011-04-07 Thread Carl Simpson
I can only agree. Some of the animations in the recent GNOME 3.0 release are spectacular, particularly those of their various panel menus. That sort of speed is more like it. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to :

Re: [Ayatana] New style of Minimize button for Natty

2011-04-04 Thread Carl Simpson
This is something that gets said again and again, but… Unity is essentially an option just like AWN is an option, GNOME Panel is an option, Docky is an option, etc. Unity doesn't make any of those go away. If you want to customise the default experience to use a single GNOME Panel, instead of

Re: [Ayatana] New style of Minimize button for Natty

2011-04-04 Thread Carl Simpson
Canonical has *never* maintained GNOME Panel, so the fact that it even works *now* is entirely due to the miracle of collaboration, rather than Ubuntu's or Canonical's specific efforts. That'll continue to be how it all works in the future; don't panic. There are enough people out there looking

Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-15 Thread Carl Simpson
The change that you propose might make it harder to see which application a particular menu belongs to. I think it's that (and the desire to hide a bit of messy interface) that led to the current situation, although I've no citation on it. I think in having it always-menu, care would need to be

Re: [Ayatana] 'Control Center' should be in 'Launcher' not in 'Session Menu'

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Simpson
Given that Windows puts it's Control Panel link in the same “space” as its session management options¹ this is at the very least consistent and pretty familiar behaviour. ¹ A sample image I pulled off Google: http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sshot20091028222007.png 2011/3/11

Re: [Ayatana] Better use of backlight in Unity launcher

2011-02-20 Thread Carl Simpson
Ah, dammit, how did this end up in… Sorry about this. :/ I'll move it to the right thread. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help :

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-02-20 Thread Carl Simpson
Annoyingly, this somehow ended up in a completely different thread due to the horrors of human error. I'm reposting here. Sticking with the examples of Banshee and volume, for the sake of argument, we also recognise two sorts of window indicator: a) A window indicator that stands alone as

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator keyboard shortcuts missing in Unity

2011-02-19 Thread Carl Simpson
I think it's just F10, now, isn't it? Either way its there and you can check what it is in the Unity plugin options in CCSM 2011/2/19 Owais Lone he...@owaislone.org On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a.star...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Owais

[Ayatana] Fwd: App Name as a Menu

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Simpson
Oops. Didn't send this the list. (Sorry Mr. Lone, you're gonna get this twice. :/) -- Forwarded message -- From: Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com Date: 2011/1/19 Subject: Re: [Ayatana] App Name as a Menu To: he...@owaislone.org “Remove or Upgrade” You've got update-manager

Re: [Ayatana] A more suitable space for notify-osd's position in Natty?

2011-01-14 Thread Carl Simpson
It bears note- I don't think Firefox's searchbar will be at that location for very long, since FF4 has tabs-on-top. 2011/1/15 Brett Cornwall brettcornw...@gmail.com Greetings, Ayatana. With unity coming up there will be quite a lot of space saved with the nifty global menu and the housing of

Re: [Ayatana] Desktop Silent Mode

2011-01-14 Thread Carl Simpson
2011/1/15 Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com It's a fair point that using Offline as an IM status might be confused with Internet connectivity. However, it's been used that way in most IM clients for a long time. So any replacement would have to be *so* much less confusing (and/or

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-04 Thread Carl Simpson
2011/1/4 Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com When maximised, they go into the panel, on the right, left of any app-indicators. Can we can assume from this that per-application functions, such as volume control and network status, wont be tenable uses of the windicator idea, since this would

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2011-01-04 Thread Carl Simpson
To clarify, I mean people tend to want that somewhere in the front-and-centre interface; I'm aware that it's there in gnome-volume-control. 2011/1/4 Carl Simpson cwd.simp...@gmail.com 2011/1/4 Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com When maximised, they go into the panel, on the right, left of any