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

2011-11-22 Thread Omar B .
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:27:08 + From: m...@canonical.com To: Ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote on 20/10/11 16:34

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

2011-11-20 Thread Carl Ansell
I actually wrote about this in another ayatana topic, and it seemed to get positive responses. You could have separate launcher tiles on each of the 4 workspaces. That way you could have one for work applications, one for multimedia, one for games etc. For new users to set this up, this is

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

2011-11-20 Thread Christian Giordano
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote: Hi Matthew, in your design, is the checkbox close to the application useful for having the application minimized (as Apple do)? I don't understand how you came to that conclusion. Maybe the design is unclear.

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

2011-11-19 Thread Christian Giordano
Hi Matthew, in your design, is the checkbox close to the application useful for having the application minimized (as Apple do)? Said that, I have to agree with the comment from AllanDay, I am not sure why you would want a file selector considering that some applications (including browsers)

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.

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

2011-11-19 Thread Evan Huus
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: Evan Huus wrote on 20/10/11 17:50: ... One thing that I would like it to support is mounting partitions. I have my music on a separate internal NTFS partition so that it can be accessed by Windows. At the moment,

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

2011-10-25 Thread Ian Santopietro
I know ideas like this have been discussed before, but what about implementing a stack based system (like Android) that would keep running and recently used apps in RAM, or making more aggressive use of the Linux disk cache? Possibly an option to load an app into the cache upon logging in (or

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

2011-10-25 Thread anthropornis
I tend to give every app its own workspace (I generally use a 3x3 or 4x4 matrix). The top row for example may only be one genre of apps. It would interesting to see if these startup apps could launch, and stick themselves into a predefined workspace, saving me the manual positioning. On

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

2011-10-24 Thread Evan Huus
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -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

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

2011-10-24 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 24. okt. 2011 23:49, skrev Evan Huus: Something else just occurred to me that can maybe be put in the 'nice to have' bucket for future consideration: delayed opening. For non-critical applications like Gwibber, it would be nice if they could be set to load 10ish seconds after the rest of the

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

2011-10-22 Thread Sense Egbert Hofstede
On 20 October 2011 17:34, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -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,

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

2011-10-21 Thread Paulo J. S. Silva
, but very easy to manage, add , delete, stop ,etc. From: eapa...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:50:57 -0400 To: m...@canonical.com CC: Ayatana@lists.launchpad.net; seb...@ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications

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

2011-10-20 Thread tommy
It would be nice if this panel could have option to start the application minimized - for example Empathy, Skype or Pidgin. And a feature, which I think some users will find useful - startup applications added by system administrator (that cannot be deleted by ordinary user) - for example

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

2011-10-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 20 October 2011 11:34, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: I'd appreciate your feedback on the design. https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/LoginItems I like porting Nautilus's Open with Other Application chooser to the Login Items screen. The current Add button in Startup

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

2011-10-20 Thread Evan Huus
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -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

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

2011-10-20 Thread Omar B .
, stop ,etc. From: eapa...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:50:57 -0400 To: m...@canonical.com CC: Ayatana@lists.launchpad.net; seb...@ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [Ayatana] New design: Opening applications and documents automatically at login On Thu