Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: This may not be a good idea from a compatibility point of view. Many websites expect sans-serif to mean Arial, serif to mean Times New Roman and monospace Courier New. They expect sentences they write to be in that font, which has

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name wrote: Sorry, but if a website wants to use a specific font, then they should specify that font in the stylesheet. The terms sans-serif, serif

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Scott E. Armitage
users to select alternative choices for the generic fonts. -S On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 22:48, Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name

Re: [Ayatana] USB Device Removal Indicator

2010-08-26 Thread Scott E. Armitage
Places, IIRC, but with no facility to power them down. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, David Hamm davidth...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't plugged in but not mounted devices show in the places list? or computer folder? -- Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate Space Flight Laboratory

Re: [Ayatana] Secure Identity Design

2010-06-21 Thread Scott E. Armitage
Agreed. Users that build GPG networks without proper trust controls could actually /decrease/ their level of security. Having said that, the current implementation is someone complicated and poorly documented. I have but one trusted friend on my current network, and that took the better part of an

Re: [Ayatana] Progress dialogs minimising applications

2010-05-28 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: If we do it at the Unity level, then it's one-progress-per-app, and I agree with your 5, the App should decide which progress to show, or amalgamate them into a single one (you have n things downloading, overall you

Re: [Ayatana] replace status bar mockups

2010-05-28 Thread Scott E. Armitage
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Mark Shuttleworth m...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 27/05/10 21:51, Scott E. Armitage wrote: Could we see some mockups with the status bar displaying outside the window border? I have run into this situation in Chrome on OS X and Windows before under certain

Re: [Ayatana] replace status bar mockups

2010-05-27 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I like them in general, but I have some reservations. 1. They still seem pretty big (i.e. not very tight, as Mark put it). I already find many of the controls on those screenshots to be quite large, and everything starts adding up to eat up our screen space. 2. Do we need them to be

Re: [Ayatana] Intuitive

2010-05-14 Thread Scott E. Armitage
Very well-worded point, Thorsten. This expresses in clean, concise words (and with references!) my general feelings on the subject. Thanks, -Scott On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 11:37 +0200, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: That is

Re: [Ayatana] Redesigning the Ubuntu mouse cursor for simple notification of app attention

2010-05-04 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I think that relying on mouse cursors as notifications is a scary idea. With the advent of new input methods (and old ones becoming more popular) such as touch-screens, the role of the mouse cursor does not have a 100% rock-solid future. Why put the effort into something that may not be there five

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Scott E. Armitage
2010/5/4 Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com These were certainly helpful. I think you've nailed a lot of the sound related use cases. I think the take home message of this is that there are two distinct types of sound streams. I'm going to use the analogy we've been using in notifications-

Re: [Ayatana] [Less is More] Nautilus Context menu

2010-03-26 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I think a better solution would be for the Search button in the upper menu to default to searching within your current location. Isn't that already the default behaviour? I see no value in adding a Search option to the context menu -- the context menu should be offering quick access to file

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
One comment off the bat: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Akshay Gupta kital...@gmail.com wrote: 2.) A close button on the corner of the bubble as soon as a mouseover occurs (like Growl, instead of disappearing away) This interferes with the idea of notifications being ethereal -- as it

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I couldn't agree more; the notification system introduced with NotifyOSD is, on the whole, awesome, and I couldn't imagine going back to stupid little balloon tips tat pop up with a distracting noise and demand to be shooed away. -S On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Mike Rooney mroo...@ubuntu.com

Re: [Ayatana] Lucid theme - window controls location

2010-03-13 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I can sit here and say I don't like the changes, but it's irrelevant. It's an opinion. What is needed are facts and a cost/benefit analysis. I think the cost is pretty clear at this point. Precisely.. and yet for all the people in this thread and others that have been requesting it, the is

Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager

2009-12-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I don't think that mac_v is proposing /automated/ updates, so much as he is proposing that the current update scheme should not require the administrator's password. The administrator would still be notified of new updates as they are now, and they would have to decide when to download and install

Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager

2009-12-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
. -S On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.comwrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:31:37 -0500 Scott E. Armitage launch...@scott.armitage.name wrote: I don't think that mac_v is proposing /automated/ updates, so much as he is proposing that the current update scheme should

Re: [Ayatana] Shutdown dialog countdown

2009-12-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I think the description of what shutting down does (e.g. all applications will be closed) belongs in the tooltip for the shut down command. The dialog itself is not the place for that information -- it should show only what you need to know, that is 1) you have an option to cancel the shut down,

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-11-11 Thread Scott E. Armitage
It sounds like this is putting the horse before the bit -- there is still a lot of turmoil out there regarding NotifyOSD's positioning. The Work for Lucid section *should* say something more like Positioning: Determine the driving requirements for notification bubble positioning and separate