Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 11:12, Mitja Pagon wrote: Good stuff - the menu (M) button should be implemented by ages .. finally some necessary order regarding usability No it should not, it's a bad idea and a degradation of usablity and if you would have even the basic understanding of the subject of

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
On 21/03/11 11:41, SorinN wrote: Using Close-Minimize-Maximize buttons on the left side on the window top is a breach for example (if you would have even the basic understanding of the subject of usability you would know why...) +1 :-) Regards, Lee. -- It is characteristic of theistic

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
into a single, compact panel item (a single /locus/ where the end-user can both identify which application is active, and access its menus). Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. -- There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? -- Dr. Jonas Stalk, on being asked who owned the patent for his polio vaccine

Re: [Ayatana] New idea of usability for Unity

2011-03-21 Thread Lee Hyde
?). :-) Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. -- There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? -- Dr. Jonas Stalk, on being asked who owned the patent for his polio vaccine signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list: https

Re: [Ayatana] Me Menu, and single user irritation.

2011-03-17 Thread Lee Hyde
On 17/03/11 12:51, Saleel Velankar wrote: I think on single user scenarios, the gconf key to show the name should be toggled to 0 by default. That's a good idea. Though some thought needs to be given as to whether the existence of a guest account should toggle the gconf key back to 1/2 or not.

Re: [Ayatana] Design problems in general

2011-03-16 Thread Lee Hyde
On 16/03/11 13:01, Thorsten Wilms wrote: If you are not under too tight constraints, the questionshouldn't be how something is being done, not even how users would like to do it, but rather: how should they do it? I thoroughly disagree with this assessment of UI/X design for the following

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

2011-03-11 Thread Lee Hyde
abandoned. That decision never made much sense to me, and I do hope it's reversed at some point. I can't count the number of times (actually I can, it's 4) that I've accidentally put my computer into standby/hibernation via Docky's session docklet. Regards, Lee Hyde. -- It is characteristic

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

2011-03-11 Thread Lee Hyde
On 11/03/11 15:51, M. Adnan Quaium wrote: May be it can be renamed as Desktop Preferences or any suitable name (if it is possible) rather than Control Centre... Changing the name won't change it's unsuitability for the Me Menu. It just doesn't fit there at all. If it must be placed in any

Re: [Ayatana] Me Messaging Indicator Menu

2011-01-01 Thread Lee Hyde
. That would however require protocol updates to WLM/Yahoo/GTalk which are not likely forthcoming. :( Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. On 01/01/11 01:45, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Dani, Conscious ;) On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 19:56, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com mailto:consciousu