Re: [Ayatana] Unity sidebar improvement.

2012-01-31 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 joy chalissery wrote on 25/01/12 19:21: Unity now has only a sidebar to the left and a bar above. Unity does not have a sidebar. I ask why not provide with with bars on all sides with a self hiding feature it would be great. What for? you

Re: [Ayatana] why compiz in place of mutter

2012-01-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 supernova wrote on 29/01/12 08:22: Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it works very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and more fat than the gnome-shell, as it happened for 11.10, 11.04, ... . I guess it is due to

Re: [Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Terry wrote on 09/01/12 16:56: ... I was about to implement a part of the new System Settings spec [1] when I saw that it referred to the unity panel as the top bar. That design looks like it would benefit from copyediting in general.

Re: [Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Terry wrote on 13/01/12 09:34: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 10:29:41 CET, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The menu bar, lower case, separate words. Hrm. I'm at a Rally with some other design folks, and talked to them yesterday about this question

Re: [Ayatana] Video effects when user install programs

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Enrico Enrico Carafa wrote on 10/01/12 20:58: My idea is about an effect that should be added when the user install software from the USC. I mean the effect that can be watched on this video:

Re: [Ayatana] Unity's Scope

2012-01-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Meek wrote on 05/01/12 04:29: In a recent discussion on Google+ Cassidy James (of elementary fame) was asking just what defines a scope or lense on Unity. There is no real set guideline for what they are or should do. To me, Unity is

Re: [Ayatana] new proposal for notifications / indicators

2011-12-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David wrote on 06/12/11 10:05: ... the basic idea is that when you turn the computer on it shows the minimum of indicators thats possible. http://unity.exemo.net/panel_beginning.png you can expand them by clicking on the arrow:

Re: [Ayatana] Will Modal-Dialog windows fix this problem with Unity?

2011-12-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 10/12/11 18:07: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 18:40, nick rundy nru...@hotmail.com ... How can I minimize a window when a modal-dialog has taken over the focus of the window? Right clicking the Update Manager icon

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Huus wrote on 03/12/11 15:43: ... Currently when an event occurs (for example, someone says something in a minimized empathy chat), a notification pops up and the messaging indicator turns blue. They happen at the same time, but the events

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 30/11/11 20:08: Which reminds me, shouldn't we stop pretending that synchronous and asynchronous notifications are similar enough to deserve being close? They are not, and the current approach causes more problems than

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chow Loong Jin wrote on 29/11/11 16:20: On 29/11/2011 23:08, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The first reason is that a chat window wouldn't be noticable unless it was frontmost; it's difficult (or little-known) to make a window frontmost without

Re: [Ayatana] new proposal for notifications / indicators

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David wrote on 29/11/11 21:56: ... actually we show per default: - messages (status/chat/twitter/mail/ubuntu_one) - battery - bluetooth - network - sound (volume/music) - clock - session switcher (switch user) - Power

Re: [Ayatana] Window controls to left or buttons to right?

2011-12-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Carafa wrote on 27/11/11 10:32: So, one of the most discussed topic is the position of the window controls. To the right or to the left? Many users says that the controls to the left is better because it's close with the menu. But others

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 29/11/11 17:54: Em 29-11-2011 12:54, Matthew Paul Thomas escreveu: ... Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: ... First of all I would move the bubble closer to the panel That looks much nicer. Which reminds me

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: Currently notifications in unity are what they called: notifications: they don't do anything else... I really like in GS to be able to answer immediately or a friend complained that he wants to click on

Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

2011-11-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 staticd wrote on 19/11/11 11:41: Another problem that is brought about by non resizable windows is dealing with error messages: they get truncated and cant be read.(e.g. software center error messages) ... And that isn't true either. The

Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

2011-11-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote on 20/10/11 16:34: ... For some people, it is useful to open particular applications or documents every time they log in. ... I'd appreciate your feedback on the design. https://live.gnome.org/Design

Re: [Ayatana] Dash More Apps and Find Files options are redundant

2011-11-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Strawbridge wrote on 21/10/11 17:32: yea with the lenses included in dash it finally makes all of those buttons redundant with the possible exception of shotwell. the whole initial dash view should be reworked. ... Apparently the Unity

Re: [Ayatana] Shut Down in Dash and with Key-Combination

2011-11-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sony-qs wrote on 23/10/11 00:27: There are two more things in oneiric to change! Before it was possible to open the Shut Down-Dialog with Ctrl+Alt+Del, now there's is Logout! Thats not bad, ... Yes it is. :-) By itself, Ctrl Alt Del is a

Re: [Ayatana] Easy to use menus for touch and non touch devices

2011-11-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Richardson wrote on 03/11/11 09:01: It strikes me that the idea behind hiding the menus has been that for people with touch devices these menus are not useful and future applications should avoid the use of menus where possible. That is

Re: [Ayatana] semi-transparent indicator menus

2011-10-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omar B. wrote on 28/10/11 14:48: ... From: frederik.nn...@gmail.com ... Unity introduces a new look, but Indicators Menus, which were there before the Dash, are not yet up to date in that respect. Obviously, there is no alpha for indicator

[Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login

2011-10-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks For some people, it is useful to open particular applications or documents every time they log in. (For example, every day when I log in at work, I launch XChat, Firefox, and a time sheet text document.) Every version of Ubuntu has had a

Re: [Ayatana] stop quick hide application top menu on top task bar

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charles charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 20:02: ... could you make the active application top menu appears all the time on the task bar just like mac osx? it annoys me i have to hover my mouse to the top task bar each time i want

Re: [Ayatana] Ayatana dev list - attitude

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 16/10/11 10:50: ... I do still believe there's something has to change regarding the up to date software installation, just like in windows xp, though it's old from year 2001, but we still able to install most of

Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefanos A. wrote on 16/10/11 15:24: *Some* windows are ok to resize, because for those windows, the probability that people would resize them deliberately multiplied by the benefit from doing so is greater than the probability that people

Re: [Ayatana] reduce the font and ui size!

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlesa...@gmail.com wrote on 15/10/11 19:58: dear unity developer team, could you please reduce the default font and ui size of unity and ubuntu overall, they really taking much screen real estate, or at least give us option to reduce the

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jjardon/indicator-datetime/fix-833337 into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-10-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
I think that would be better than trying to invent understandable rules for when locations will be hidden, definitely. I've just forwarded you part of a discussion I had with Ted about this. Thanks! -- https://code.launchpad.net/~jjardon/indicator-datetime/fix-87/+merge/79332 Your team

Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

2011-10-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefanos A. wrote on 13/10/11 22:22: 2011/10/13 Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... Stefanos A. wrote on 13/10/11 15:09: ... Off-hand, I recall the official installer, which cannot be resized when the show details area does not fit

Re: [Ayatana] Unity panel

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michal Strba wrote on 12/10/11 19:38: ... This suggestion is only about design nothing more. I think that unity panel in ubuntu looks bit boring. It looks (of course it isn't functionally identical) as panel in 10.04+. I think that it should

Re: [Ayatana] What's up with all the non-resizable windows?

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefanos A. wrote on 13/10/11 15:09: I just installed 11.10, just to be assaulted by ugly non-resizable windows. Why, oh why? Off-hand, I recall the official installer, which cannot be resized when the show details area does not fit inside

Re: [Ayatana] Session management in the dash

2011-10-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Ansell wrote on 10/10/11 17:12: A recent update placed logout, shut down and restart controls into the dash. I think it would be useful to have these located in the bottom right corner of the dash rather than in the lens results, as

Re: [Ayatana] something wrong ??

2011-10-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote on 03/10/11 14:16: On 10/03/2011 03:06 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: On 10/03/2011 01:26 PM, Anup Verma wrote: ... Let us search for MultiGet. When I write Mult in the search MultiGet appears at the 6th position. As soon as I add 'i', I see that

[Ayatana] Search algorithm in Ubuntu Software Center

2011-10-03 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Anup Verma wrote on 03/10/11 12:26: Friends, don't you find any problem with the algorithm used to search in the software center. Giving you an example: Let us search for MultiGet. When I write Mult in the search MultiGet appears at the 6th position. As soon as I add 'i', I see that

Re: [Ayatana-dev] Unified inputmethod/keyboarlayout

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesper Lundgren wrote on 24/09/11 20:27: ... Now if I want to add korean It becomes a bit more complicated and confusing. If I add korean in keyboard layout I can only type in english using that layout. To get Korean I need to go into language

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman wrote on 06/09/11 11:05: S. Christian Collins s.chriscoll...@gmail.com wrote: ... What would be ideal, IMO, would be a check box in the software center for each application that would say something like: Always update to the

Re: [Ayatana] Software center icon needs designers minds, and new humanity desktop methafor.

2011-09-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David wrote on 07/09/11 18:00: I see many criticisms yet a lack of proposals for a suitable replacement. Without an explaination, people could dismiss that icon thinking I don't want to buy applications, I'll go to the internet and see where

Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Applications

2011-09-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Meek wrote on 07/09/11 19:33: Actually, I intended something more in depth than that. I asked one of the designers and am going to attempt to begin work on a comprehensive HIG. Everything about the design needs to be thought out, not just

Re: [Ayatana] Balsamiq

2011-09-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 a.gra...@gmail.com wrote on 04/09/11 14:22: ... thanks to a kind reply from Jono to a comment I did on one of his posts, I discovered Balsamiq. I installed it and tested a bit and later I discovered this:

Re: [Ayatana] Thunderbird needs tighter panel integration

2011-09-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Ansell wrote on 03/09/11 22:37: At present, the only use for the mail icon in the panel is to set up thunderbird (for email anyway). Once an account has been set up, it would be useful for thunderbird to check emails in the background, and

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kévin PEIGNOT wrote on 04/09/11 13:04: I don't agree. PPA should be used only to install unstable / unsupported features. I think the problem is that a lot of very good programs aren't in the default repository and need to be installed via PPA.

Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 a.gra...@gmail.com wrote on 05/09/11 12:42: ... On 5 September 2011 13:01, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... So now is a good time to think about how we can make Ubuntu safer by making adding PPAs harder. don't you think it's already

Re: [Ayatana] White text in lenses doesn't work well with light background images.

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 27/08/11 04:35: It's fantastically cool how the lenses background color changes with the desktop wallpaper. But when the wallpaper is a light one, then the text in the lenses become difficult to read. For example,

Re: [Ayatana] Hybrid (panel/launcher) top left corner button

2011-08-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eylem Koca wrote on 27/08/11 03:49: The current design is justified by the motivation to move the window control buttons to the top left. Apparently, the usability tests for 11.04 design showed that the window controls are better on the top left,

Re: [Ayatana-dev] The return of the ellipsis

2011-08-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Gould wrote on 20/08/11 05:10: ... So it seems regularly about this time in the cycle we start getting bugs about ... in our code instead of …. Seems that they always creep back in, and that's very annoying. How do we keep bugs out? Through

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-session/add-account-settings into lp:indicator-session

2011-08-21 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Review: Approve design Good idea. I've updated the specification to match. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeviceMenuAndUserMenu?action=diffrev2=9rev1=8 -- https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-session/add-account-settings/+merge/70619 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-datetime/spell-out-and into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-08-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Review: Needs Fixing design +1 to using real ellipses! Thanks. For vs. and, I think it's better for menus, buttons, and window titles to use , because it makes the other words in the label easier to scan. (The same reason that those labels have most words capitalized, but not short

Re: [Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~jbicha/indicator-datetime/spell-out-and into lp:indicator-datetime

2011-08-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
I don't know if anyone intends to, but I think it would be an improvement. -- https://code.launchpad.net/~jbicha/indicator-datetime/spell-out-and/+merge/70604 Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:indicator-datetime. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] What about the Dash on Oneiric Ocelot ?

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 02/08/11 11:07: Hi, I've earlier suggested removing the lenses from the launcher and integrating into the dash main page instead. I made a mockup but without lens titles which obviously would be required:

Re: [Ayatana] Comments on the Device User Menu specs

2011-08-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Shuttleworth wrote on 02/08/11 09:17: Hi Jeremy, thanks for your mail. On 02/08/11 00:35, Jeremy Bicha wrote: Since I help out on the Documentation Team, I value clear user interface terminology so that users, powerusers, and maybe even

Re: [Ayatana] Oneiric Dark Toolbars waste vertical space - what was the point of Unity?

2011-08-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nick rundy wrote on 22/07/11 18:08: The newly implemented Dark Toolbars to Oneiric have left me wondering if the Developers have forgotten one of the driving principles for Unity--to reclaim vertical space? Look at the following comparison

Re: [Ayatana] Fwd: Place Shut Down as the last entry in the Sessions-Menu for Oneiric and beyond

2011-07-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 27/07/11 16:05: ... On 27 July 2011 13:39, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: We have no evidence that a non-trivial proportion of people notice differently colored icons in the menu bar. You might say

Re: [Ayatana] Place Shut Down as the last entry in the Sessions-Menu for Oneiric and beyond

2011-07-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Huus wrote on 27/07/11 17:21: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas ... This is what Havoc Pennington called the misguided 'hmm, maybe I can autogenerate my GUI' stage. http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html

Re: [Ayatana] Place Shut Down as the last entry in the Sessions-Menu for Oneiric and beyond

2011-07-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 06/07/11 17:45: On 6 July 2011 13:04, Omer Akram om26er.l...@gmail.com wrote: ... Good news, in Oneiric system settings will be removed from the SessionMenu and an icon for it will be placed in the launcher by

Re: [Ayatana] indicators vs launchers

2011-07-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 16/06/11 11:54: in Unity, shouldn't the Messaging menu indicator appear only once a messaging application is up and running? i have neither a mail app nor an instant messaging app running at the moment, still the

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Nickurak wrote on 14/06/11 19:33: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:27, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... That isn't correct. I specified how it could work with focus follows mouse in May 2010, months before Natty even had a name. https

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

2011-06-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 18/05/11 09:02: ... There are also more situations where the global menu works like a crippled narwhal. E.g. when working with programs as GIMP. GIMP has one main application window and several smaller windows with tools

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Lin wrote on 10/06/11 23:57: ... On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: I don't understand why you think a single OS for multiple form factors counts as getting something right. The success of iOS, Mac

Re: [Ayatana] Windows 8 and OS X Lion observations

2011-06-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GonzO wrote on 08/06/11 21:59: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Ed Lin edlin...@gmail.com wrote: ... Dock: I haven't seen an HD version but it looks like even the subtle hints of running apps are gone, together with auto save their desktop behaves

Re: [Ayatana] 11.04 Comboboxes

2011-05-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Meek wrote on 06/05/11 19:18: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... The Check for updates menu is a combo box, and should not be. Someone has just reported this bug. http://launchpad.net/bugs/750507

Re: [Ayatana] Indicator Emulation for Systray applications

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chow Loong Jin wrote on 02/05/11 19:07: In Ubuntu 11.04, Unity has effectively removed notification area support for almost everything but a few exceptions, which are maintained in a whitelist specified in dconf. I'm not exactly sure why this

Re: [Ayatana] 11.04 Comboboxes

2011-04-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Meek wrote on 07/04/11 03:22: ... An example: Go to Power Management preferences and click the combobox for action to take on laptop lid closing, a menu will appear and you can choose an item at your leisure. Now, go run CCSM and go to the

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GonzO Rodrigue wrote on 23/04/11 18:43: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Mitja Pagon mitja.pa...@inueni.com ... http://design.canonical.com/2011/04/unity-benchmark-usability-april-2011/ Is this the testing you were referring to? If so, how come

Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

2011-04-19 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Liao wrote on 12/04/11 14:48: Hi all, I've been wondering, the Global Menu debate has been very furious for a while now. Proponents argue that Fitts Law is efficient. However, Unity's implementation of the Global Menu is that it becomes a

Re: [Ayatana] Awesome critical review of Unity

2011-04-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Benstead wrote on 13/04/11 12:11: ... If you guys haven't watched this (well, listened mainly) you really should. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaLDMz_e2jQfeature=player_embedded I have to say though, I agree with him on pretty much

Re: [Ayatana] why global menubar/application menu isn't such a great idea

2011-04-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kévin PEIGNOT wrote on 05/04/11 14:04: ... I still don't see why using a global menu on non-maximised windows. Even for consistency it's useless : if the menu bar is in the panel *just for maximised* windows, every windows will have it's menu

Re: [Ayatana] why global menubar/application menu isn't such a great idea

2011-04-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 giff gill wrote on 05/04/11 18:32: ... But I have to say, that's interesting. Unity was initially designed with netbook formfactor and user case in mind and later extended to the desktop. Still the fundamental design was kept 1:1, the same design

Re: [Ayatana] Merging libindicate into libnotify

2011-04-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 01/04/11 18:57: The idea that all non-immediate notifications should be grouped together in a single place, regardless of topic, is very much like the idea that progress for all long-running tasks should be grouped

Re: [Ayatana] Integrate Alt-tab with Unity Launcher

2011-04-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gorski wrote on 04/04/11 19:55: I recently installed Natty on my machine and I was really impressed by how far Unity has come. Everything is smooth and I have almost no crashes. The interface is also very clean. The only item that stands out

Re: [Ayatana] why global menubar/application menu isn't such a great idea

2011-04-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 giff g wrote on 04/04/11 16:24: Here are some reasons why I think the application menu in unity as it is now is a failed attempt at improving the user experience in Ubuntu. 1) Primary target of Ubuntu Unity are _net_books, accordingly the most

Re: [Ayatana] Merging libindicate into libnotify

2011-04-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 31/03/11 18:57: ... In Natty, the Ubuntu One item was moved from the Me Menu from the Messaging Menu. Was this agreed on by the design team? Not as far as I know. I reported a bug about it that was marked Invalid.

Re: [Ayatana] What to do with the menubar on non-full screened windows.

2011-03-31 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SorinN wrote on 30/03/11 22:33: Matthew If it's an obscene amount, your pointer acceleration settings are wrong: you'll have just as much trouble getting to the Ubuntu button, the Trash, or the session menu. The obscene amount is still

Re: [Ayatana] What to do with the menubar on non-full screened windows.

2011-03-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saleel Velankar wrote on 29/03/11 15:16: In a nonmaximized window on a. a large screen b. with other nonmaximized windows present The global-menubar fails for these reasons. 1. Confusion on which application the menu is for. This is a bug in

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

2011-03-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spike Burch wrote on 28/03/11 12:38: ... Users are more than welcome to choose to use something else, you know. ... Yeah, but if you keep saying that often enough, they will. - -- mpt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10

Re: [Ayatana] Side-by-side placement of Messaging menu and Me menu

2011-03-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Adnan Quaium wrote on 23/03/11 12:08: ... I think it would be better if the 'messaging menu' (the envelop icon) and the 'me menu' (the speech-bubble icon with user name) are placed side-by-side. Right now they are placed at the two opposite ends

Re: [Ayatana] Unity feedback suggestions

2011-03-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry I can't reply to all your suggestions, just the ones I know anything about. Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes wrote on 23/03/11 14:48: ... * The first thing that hit me was why is the ubuntu button so small compared with launcher buttons?

Re: [Ayatana] We need a short-term solution for mail applications and the messaging menu

2011-03-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 17/03/11 10:16: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 14:27, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com ... The subject is already receiving less attention than I wanted without being derailed, [...] unfortunately so. perhaps we

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

2011-03-17 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Benstead wrote on 15/03/11 21:53: ... Erm, I hate to point out the obvious, but why don't we just put the menu back in the windows and abandon appmenu as a failed experiment? Keep the title and window controls in the panel for maximized

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

2011-03-17 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman wrote on 16/03/11 12:42: ... A bug is a bug no matter who files it. If we're down to it's only a real bug if certain people file the bug, then that's a real problem. ... I totally agree. I don't think my bug reports should get

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

2011-03-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Lajoie wrote on 15/03/11 15:22: 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? ... The existing menu is part of gnome-settings-daemon.

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

2011-03-16 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sladen wrote on 16/03/11 11:29: On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Do you know of any Ubuntu application that was trying to use its menu titles as an indicator in the first place? The Gimp and various other MDI applications

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

2011-03-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Lajoie wrote on 13/03/11 09:27: Ubuntu needs a consolidated keyboard indicator, one that allows users to change keyboard layouts and keyboard input methods all in one place. Check out the attached image to see what a disaster the current

Re: [Ayatana] Global menu really frustrating in virtual machines

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Ritchie wrote on 08/03/11 10:57: The global menu is based on the assumption that it's easier to hit the corner of the screen than it is to hit the edge of the active window. This breaks down, however, when the mouse doesn't actually stop

Re: [Ayatana] Minimize a window in Unity by clicking it's icon

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kostas Sytske wrote on 11/03/11 16:04: ... At the moment it is only possible to maximize a window but it's not possible to minimize a window in Unity by clicking it's icon. The minimize button in the top panel is a option but it would be nice if

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding the Sound Menu Spec's closing of inactive audio applications

2011-03-08 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chow Loong Jin wrote on 15/02/11 17:05: On Tuesday 08,February,2011 09:36 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: A window's close button should close the window. Anything else the program does should aim for the least overall distraction. Please

Re: [Ayatana] What is idle ?

2011-03-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 25/02/11 12:22: I noticed a degree of redundancy in the usage of the metaphor idle, which might be something we can eliminate. In the attached screenshot i marked all instances and synonyms of idle. ... Well

Re: [Ayatana] Redundancy : Preference's Menu and Indicator's options

2011-02-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 15/02/11 13:39: ... On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:36, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... The items in the status menus are shortcuts. Sometimes someone will go into the clock menu to change something about

Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

2011-02-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Curtis wrote on 28/02/11 19:14: Chrome's tab behavior for quickly closing tabs is for quickly closing the current tab and the ones after (to the right) of it. Once there are no more tabs to the right, it works for tabs to the left as well, up

Re: [Ayatana] Redundancy : Preference's Menu and Indicator's options

2011-02-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cyrildz wrote on 04/02/11 17:24: ... in the Preferences' Menu (System-- Preferences) we have: -Instant Messaging and VoIP - Microbloging -Network Connexion -Sound -About Me -Ubuntu One But those Entries are already present on the

Re: [Ayatana] Implementation of a built-in screencaster in Unity like there is in GNOME Shell

2011-02-14 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ks64 wrote on 01/02/11 18:27: Despite all the hype about Unity, there is one thing that is making me miss GNOME Shell: built-in screencasting. Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R and you can start and stop screencast recording in GNOME Shell. If a similar

Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

2011-02-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sladen wrote on 27/01/11 12:24: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Chromium and Chrome have close buttons on the right of their tabs because it's faster to use than having them on the left. http://www.theinvisibl.com/2009/12/08

Re: [Ayatana] Ideas for scrollbar's light themes

2011-01-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martín A. Casco wrote on 16/01/11 13:22: ... With the last release of Elementary theme, authors include a modd for Scrollbars.. No Steppers. The argument: Users normally don't use them, just use mouse scroll or handle scrollbars. well I think

Re: [Ayatana] Left close buttons on tabs

2011-01-27 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valeryan_24 wrote on 17/01/11 09:41: ... As Ubuntu now has Close - Minimize - Maximize buttons on right side of the window, as Unity panel will be on the left side of screen, I wonder if it would be possible also to get the X close buttons on tabs

Re: [Ayatana] App Name as a Menu

2011-01-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owais Lone wrote on 15/01/11 14:03: I was just wondering if we could replace the window title in the panel with an application menu like firefox. Since we are also trying to move away from a menu bars, I think this could be a nice addition to the

Re: [Ayatana] I don't think global menu and the panel is good for a touch OS

2011-01-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote on 13/01/11 21:40: ... I have seen the 10.10 netbook and 11.04 Alpha, Unity dock is a big improvement but I think global menu is not a good idea with the following reasons. (At first I though it was a modified gnome

[Ayatana] Ambiance/Radiance theme annoyances

2011-01-13 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Cimi and Otto Since you are having a theme sprint next week, I've taken a couple of hours to write up a Top Ten list of my least favorite theme problems in Natty. (This also prompted me to report some as bugs that weren't reported already.) Some

Re: [Ayatana] Me Messaging Indicator Menu

2011-01-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 28/12/10 20:40: MPT, here's shot at it, i took my time to do it in Inkscape now ;) it portrays a new Me/Messaging Menu layout. That's intriguing. I don't understand what the gap is for, though, or how the bottom

Re: [Ayatana] Messaging Menu and the MeMenu

2011-01-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 20/12/10 11:57: ... I think the Messaging Menu *should* be purely an inbox, because one of the most common complaints against the notifications redesign is how reacting to IM/mail notifications is now less efficient

Re: [Ayatana] Me Messaging Indicator Menu

2011-01-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dani wrote on 31/12/10 14:24: i made some mockups that i think are a good and simple solution for this problem, i hope you like: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/redesign_memenu%26mesagemenu ... I do like. That's the best

Re: [Ayatana] Do Not Disturb

2011-01-07 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 02/01/11 05:13: ... today, i was working on some UML, trying myself with a complex diagram. I'm so so bad with UML, so i was forced to focus and concentrate, i wanted to be undisturbed. The music i put on in

Re: [Ayatana] Desktop Silent Mode

2011-01-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 17/12/10 15:18: ... On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 14:58, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com ... frederik.nn...@gmail.com mailto:frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote on 16/12/10 18:42: ... * Presence has no local effect

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