Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-16 Thread Greg K Nicholson
between a window and its title and menus. It avoids showing one window's title in two places. The downside is that menus for non-maximised windows are no longer at the screen edge, so take longer to acquire and click. This is *not* a regression versus Ubuntu 10.10's Gnome 2 desktop. -- ☮♥☯ Greg K

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-16 Thread Greg K Nicholson
* consistent, and that's confusing. -- ☮♥☯ Greg K Nicholson http://gkn.me.uk ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-16 Thread Greg K Nicholson
are slightly faded out and fades in on mouse over would look good on top of being functional. Once again, I'll take the opportunity to reiterate this solution to that problem: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04555.html -- ☮♥☯ Greg K Nicholson http://gkn.me.uk

Re: [Ayatana] window and workspace management in unity

2011-03-30 Thread Greg K Nicholson
This is already implemented in Compiz's Scale Addons plugin. Another, complementary approach would be to have a lower limit for the zoom factor when scaling—say, around 2/3—and clip windows if necessary to only show the top-left corner (top-right in RTL locales).

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

2011-03-17 Thread Greg K Nicholson
On this subject I'd like to reiterate and support a suggestion previously made on this list: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04555.html ☮♥☯ Greg K Nicholson http://gkn.me.uk ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana

Re: [Ayatana] Menu bar integrated in title bar in Unity

2011-02-17 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Why not integrate (and hide) the menu bar in the title bar instead for ummaximized windows? This makes sense logically. For maximised windows, the panel takes over the function of a title bar. So it seems sensible that if the active window is unmaximised, the title bar should behave in the

Re: [Ayatana] On Vincent Moulin's idea of partial global menu in unity

2010-10-29 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Gnome Shell currently uses the grave as shorthand for whichever key appears above Tab on your keyboard layout. So presumably this would be localised for each keyboard layout. On 29 Oct 2010 12:39, Barry Warsaw ba...@canonical.com wrote: On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Philipp Wendler wrote: Using

Re: [Ayatana] What do app authors do for Account Dialogs?

2010-10-11 Thread Greg K Nicholson
I don't think it's useful to enforce one account per service. It has to be a common use case to have, for example, a personal Twitter account and a business one. This should even make the UI design simpler: rather than having a fixed, finite, unscalable list of empty accounts - one per service -

Re: [Ayatana] unity and notifications

2010-09-17 Thread Greg K Nicholson
not a goal), this design would enable users who really care to deliberately queue notices while they're away. -- Greg K Nicholson On 17 Sep 2010 09:12, Diego Moya turi...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 September 2010 09:03, Conscious User wrote: To be more clear, I think this goal is *alread... Maybe

Re: [Ayatana] How Mozilla does community-driven open source design

2010-06-29 Thread Greg K Nicholson
Mozilla's approach to community-driven design is exactly the same as Ubuntu's: solicit ideas and implementations from all and sundry, then take an opinionated decision on which to include by default. Where Mozilla succeed better is that: 1. They solicit ideas more actively using their

Re: [Ayatana] Papercut or not? Bug #495403 in One Hundr ed Paper Cuts: “Do not raise windows or dialog s without user input”

2010-06-21 Thread Greg K Nicholson
OK, I didn't express myself clearly here: So when should the window manager switch from assuming you want a new window focused, to assuming you don't? When you deliberately focus another window. That's assuming the question. Whether you deliberately focus another window is what the window

Re: [Ayatana] Papercut or not? Bug #495403 in One Hundr ed Paper Cuts: “Do not raise windows or dialog s without user input”

2010-05-28 Thread Greg K Nicholson
This doesn't work very well if an application in one workspace opens a modal dialog under a long living application in another workspace. Yes. If an application wants to open a dialogue, it really ought to throw focus to that dialogue. If it's opening a modal dialogue, surely it *must* throw

Re: [Ayatana] Papercut or not? Bug #495403 in One Hundr ed Paper Cuts: “Do not raise windows or dialog s without user input”

2010-05-28 Thread Greg K Nicholson
That is precisely what it does, and has done for years. But it will always be guessing. If you're watching a video and it mentions an unfamiliar word, and you launch the Dictionary to look it up, and it takes two seconds to launch, you want it to take focus. But if you launch OpenOffice.org

Re: [Ayatana] Windicators

2010-05-04 Thread Greg K Nicholson
On 4 May 2010 05:48, Tyler Brainerd tylerbrain...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I believe Mark gave some pretty clear reasons why. They want the upper right to have a particular analogy, just like they want the upper left. Right is for notifications, volume, brightness, and similar controls, the