Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/12/8 David Wolfe davidw+launch...@wolfeden.org All to save what? 24 pixels of vertical space? Ludicrous. Actually the global menu per se is not the issue here. Almost every commenter likes it; just not the way it behaves _exclusively_ (not by default, since there are barely any options).

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Will this patch resist updates? 2013/12/4 Ryan Koesters rmkoest...@gmail.com @Mateusz Stachowski: I am currently working on a patch to do that for unity-control-center. -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report.

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-12-04 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/12/4 Ryan Koesters rmkoest...@gmail.com @Aleve Sicofante: Can you explain what you mean by resist updates? I mean, will we have to apply the patch after each update? Sometimes updates overwrite patched versions of Unity. I'm asking if this patch suffers from the same or is it independent

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-07-24 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I'm confused. This bug can only be solved in future versions of Unity. Since current is Unity 7 and the design hasn't been changed, our first hopes go to Unity 8, where Compiz won't be used at all. So unless Unity 7 introduces the desired behavior in 13.10, which seems unlikely (since nobody has

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-07-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Sorry for my ignorance. What exact changes have happened to Compiz regarding this bug that you're informing us about here? 2013/7/22 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com ** Changed in: compiz Milestone: 0.9.10.0 = 0.9.10.2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-06-08 Thread Aleve Sicofante
This bug isn't fixed in 13.04 yet. Maybe the developers John Lea and Marco Trevisan (Treviño) could chime in and let everybody know if we can expect it to be fixed in 13.10? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-05-16 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@Leonardo Donelli: Have you actually read this bug report at all? People here is not against the global menu per se. Gosh, even the title says it very clear!!! All we want is IMPROVEMENT, which in this case means some pretty well argued options (compared to the total lack of rationale for the

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-05-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
LIM has been announced for Saucy. I understand it's not a proper announcement, but just an idea in the ongoing UDS. Whoever is attending the UDS, please remind the team of this hugely followed bug. If they're planning an overhaul of the menu system, they should pay attention to everything that

Re: [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6 YEARS AGO!!!) Hi. 1. It is fixed in Unity-3D, which has been the default since 12.10 No it's not. I'm using Unity-3D,

Re: [Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-31 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On 31/01/2013 8:51 AM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/31 Sam Spilsbury smspil...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:08 AM, OpenLaptop i...@openlaptop.nl wrote: Funny to see this bug is still not fixed sinds 2007 (6

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-01-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/28 Chad Germann cgerm...@gmail.com in other words: show the title of the window whenever the mouse is on the top bar but outside the menu area And we don't see the problem with this whole thing by how many words it took to type that? Actually, my other words are pretty few. You bet

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-01-24 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/24 Chad Germann cgerm...@gmail.com And just remove the vanishing functionality completely. its not like that panel area is being used for anything else. It's used for the window's buttons and title when in maximized mode, and the application name when non-maximized. The solution is to

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2013-01-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/1/23 Brad Jensen bradwjen...@gmail.com WHY are we auto-hiding menu options? Because the owner of the playground believes it's more aesthetically pleasing and that the menus are disturbing, ugly and awkward. He also believes this pack of peculiar opinions form a rationale. Basic logic is

[Bug 124440] Re: Ubuntu needs a way to set mouse scrolling speed

2013-01-07 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Some people wonder why I sometimes say Ubuntu is half-finished. This and the sorry state of gpointing-device-settings is the best proof. If there's no way to properly set/use mice and touchpads on many desktops/laptops, there's no way Ubuntu can gain more users. No amount of Unity improvements

[Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2013-01-03 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Hey, five years and a half and grabbing handlers (not just windows resizers) is still buggy in Ubuntu. What puzzles me is, why is it easy to grab the left, right and bottom edges of the screen and it's almost imposible to grab the top edge, pane borders in some apps and many other handlers? Isn't

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-11-23 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Guys: stop discussing the implementation. The design team and the Ayatana team have all the briefing and are working on this. There's only one question remaining: WHEN? This bug was to be solved for 12.04, then 12.10... Mark Shuttleworth promised well before 12.04 that the default menu behaviour

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-11-23 Thread Aleve Sicofante
There you go guys: we're just a bunch of petulants. That's PR at it's best Mr. Shuttlerworth. Good job, as usual. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title:

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-10-19 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2012/10/20 Kamran Mackey kamranm1...@gmail.com Fixed the issue, You can check for updates using the Software Updater to update your software.To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/682788/+subscriptions Thanks for your effort but I just

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-10-12 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@Pedro: no offense but I'd say new designs are not the issue here. It was pretty much established months ago. We're just waiting for implementation and some voice from the devs camp to explain what's going on. What's stopping them from implementing and publishing the fix. I think your proposals

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity Global Menu

2012-10-11 Thread Aleve Sicofante
What I find appaling here is that we're a few days away from 12.10's release and not a single developer has had the courtesy of explaning to the 614 people affected by this bug what's being done (or not done) about it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-15 Thread Aleve Sicofante
@Rachel Greenham: I couldn't agree more with you. We need to solve one single issue first: show the global menu all the time, then proceed with caution for any other options. Just a few comments/suggestion on the main and secondary issues: - Showing global menu permanently will hide the title

Re: [Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2012/9/13 Pedro Bessa 682...@bugs.launchpad.net Development stopped, because there are lots of ***disagreements*** between us all. There were three alternatives. [] global menu on [] global menu off [] global menu only on maximized windows We came up with new alternatives. [] mockup 1

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-13 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I'm really confused. LIM and those two mockups have NOTHING to do with how the global menu behaves or the original description of the Enhanced Menu project (described in the Desired change section of the description). How is it a solution to the VERY SERIOUS ISSUE that the global menu hides,

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-09-01 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Thanks, but I'm expecting global menu options, not the LIM. you know: [x] Global Menu on [x] Global Menu off [x] Global Menu only for maximized windows We had been promised some of this would land on Precise. I understand it couldn't make it, but hoped it would be in Quantal. Can any Ubuntu

[Bug 682788] Re: Improve Unity menus

2012-08-19 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Just tested Quantal's daily build and there doesn't seem to be any changes from Precise. Will this be ready for feature freeze? I checked at Settings-Appearance-Behavior, maybe the configuration is somewhere else? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 68924] Re: provide support for changing volume labels

2009-08-25 Thread Aleve Sicofante
This functionality will not be implemented in HAL Changed in hal (Ubuntu): status: Confirmed → Won't Fix May I ask what does this mean exactly? That this is not HAL related or that someone with enough power to say so decided this bug will not be fixed ever? Thanks for any explanation.

[Bug 68924] Re: provide support for changing volume labels

2009-07-16 Thread Aleve Sicofante
coulson: why? End users don't give a damn about the implementation details. I can't see the advantage of not creating a solution that works in a couple of days instead of waiting endlessly for someone to do it properly. Nothing stops you from doing the proper solution later. My proposal is

[Bug 68924] Re: provide support for changing volume labels

2009-07-15 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I said it before, but let's go again: Write a script that does this: 1- Ask for administrative permissions. 2- Unmount the volume if it is mounted. 3- Check for the file system in place. 4- Use the appropriate command to change the volume label. 5- Mount the file system back if it was mounted

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
This is not a duplicate of bug #68924, please fully read both beyond the title before marking it as a duplicate. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 68924 provide support for changing volume labels -- Make right-click rename work for disk labels

[Bug 68924] Re: provide support for changing volume labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- provide support for changing volume labels https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/68924 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. --

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I disagree, (the other bug has issue with an MP3 player, I'm talking broader here) but as usual with Ubuntu, you're the powerful man and I'm just a user, so it really doesn't matter what I think or what I reason with you, right? :-( The problem is as easy to fix as explained. As a matter of fact,

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Although the case in question deals with mp3 players, the proposed solution to Bug #68924 is to allow renaming volumes on right click: Effectively in windows you right click on the player icon and hit rename and the player retains that name when you plug into any machine Is this not what you

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
The feature has been there for ages. It just doesn't work. So: it's a fix and belongs to One Hundred Paper Cuts, since it's as simple as a Nautilus script (someone knowing Nautilus better might even attach that script to the Rename menu entry and voila!) -- Make right-click rename work for disk

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
We basically need to expose DeviceKit-Disks (FilesystemSetLabel() specifically) throughout the whole gvfs-gio-nautilus stack. Would you please explain why the simple solution I have provided wouldn't work? I may understand your wish to make things more elegantly, but perfect is usually the enemy

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
is the volume naming something standard or something which needs to understand the filesystem in use? Non-standar. That's why there's step #3 in my proposed solution. is there any system api to do that or only command line tools? There's probably both. My solution relies on command lines only,

[Bug 388207] Re: Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-18 Thread Aleve Sicofante
wrapping around command lines doesn't seem an elegant and reliable way and we will not build workaround in softwares installed by default that would not deserver our users I will not, by any means, dictate what you have to build or not, but I hope at least you agree that serving the users with an

[Bug 388207] [NEW] Make right-click rename work for disk labels

2009-06-16 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus Go to Computer to see list of available volumes. Right click on any of them. Choose Rename. The system will allow you to edit the name of the volume but when you push the enter key you'll always get an Operation not supported by backend message.

[Bug 221118] Re: Connected servers forgotten in next session (Hardy)

2008-04-28 Thread Aleve Sicofante
Just what exactly would be the drawback of making these connections permanent until the user decides to disconnect them? (Exactly the same for mounting volumes, BTW.) -- Connected servers forgotten in next session (Hardy) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221118 You received this bug notification