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

2011-03-16 Thread Marc Lajoie
. Peace, man. Marc Lajoie On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mitja Pagon mitja.pa...@inueni.com wrote: And what may those advantages be? Not every application is a web browser and not all applications are the same, so this trend Chrome supposedly started does not automatically apply to all and every

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

2011-03-16 Thread Marc Lajoie
as an indicator. Marc Lajoie On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Lajoie wrote on 16/03/11 09:23: ... Advantages to current setup: Increases free vertical space; removes visual clutter; creates

Re: [Ayatana] Design problems in general

2011-03-16 Thread Marc Lajoie
And you intend to understand your target audience's needs without including it in the discussion? Marc Lajoie ps. Where's your science that says that users resist changing their work-flow based more [on] ... fear of change and the unknown? Isn't it possible their preferences are not completely

Re: [Ayatana] Consolidated Keyboard Indicator (or: Polyglots need love, too)

2011-03-15 Thread Marc Lajoie
Hey, wow, I see you guys are already way ahead of me on this one. So how can I help? Is there already some code on this that I can hack on? Marc Lajoie On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Lajoie

Re: [Ayatana] Double side springboard! The video.

2011-03-15 Thread Marc Lajoie
side would be a time-saver in the long-run. That's my vote anyways! Marc Lajoie On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Peterson Silva peterson@gmail.comwrote: Yeah I think this is best; the user would find things the way he left them =D *Peterson* *http://petercast.net* On 15 March 2011

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

2011-03-15 Thread Marc Lajoie
overlap occurring only for maximized windows. Marc Lajoie On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, appi2...@gmail.com appi2...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: I see four major problems with hiding the menus and covering them

[Ayatana] Consolidated Keyboard Indicator (or: Polyglots need love, too)

2011-03-13 Thread Marc Lajoie
in my panel. If they were combined into one super-indicator(!) I would be very happy. Multi-lingual users are always left behind in interface design. Usually, things work very well in one language, but if you need to use two or three simultaneously, that's when things go wonky! Marc Lajoie attachment

Re: [Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-09 Thread Marc Lajoie
It should also be mentioned that my proposal for the Ubuntu button (clck to recall, click to flip dock) would also be ideal for tablet/handheld devices as it would allow the user to recall and interact with the dock using only the thumb at the edge of the screen. Another thing worth mentioning is

[Ayatana] No one will ever use the upper-left Ubuntu button

2011-03-06 Thread Marc Lajoie
I love where Unity is going, but there is one part of the interface that makes no sense to me: the upper-left ubuntu button. I cannot imagine ever wanting to click it. Try as I might I cannot find a usage scenario where the dash screen with the big shortcut buttons would be useful. If I want