[Fwd: Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted]

2013-10-01 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 12:34 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: So, we also look at the memory consumption in my 1 gig notebook, and see that 1/3 of it is to support icon presentation. On my box it is 1563MiB or RAM (`free --mega`), albeit with Evolution, Epiphany, and gnome-terminal open.

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-30 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-09-24 19:27, Ray Morris a écrit : Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: You're making a lot of assumptions here. When this story broke it was on the basis of two commits, and had no other background information. I've read some of the discussion. The news stories did pick up on

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-30 Thread Allan Day
Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: There's a pdf document somewhere about gnome design foundations (I can't find it now, but probably I found it on [2], You're probably thinking of Jon's old GNOME Shell design doc [1]. where you can read a quote which states something like

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-30 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-09-30 10:56, Allan Day a écrit : Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: There's a pdf document somewhere about gnome design foundations (I can't find it now, but probably I found it on [2], You're probably thinking of Jon's old GNOME Shell design doc [1]. Yes, that's

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-30 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-09-25 00:31, Allan Day a écrit : Sticking to the topic of text selections specifically (since general discussions on mailing lists are the road to hell) - we won't make changes in this area unless there are clear benefits to users. I think there is a compelling case to be made for

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Allan Day
Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com wrote: Not be be a jerk, but can you seriously post that with a straight face? ... didn't turn up anything about the middle mouse button until last week and that bugzilla has several people begging that the behavior not be changed. I don't see how

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Ionut Biru
On 09/26/2013 11:21 AM, Allan Day wrote: Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com wrote: Not be be a jerk, but can you seriously post that with a straight face? ... didn't turn up anything about the middle mouse button until last week and that bugzilla has several people begging that the

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Luis Menina
Le 26/09/2013 11:34, Ionut Biru a écrit : The proposed designed is broken from start. Middle click should never change its behavior. Please stop the noise and let this thread die. It has already been said that there is no proposed design at the moment. Once there's one, the discussion will take

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:34:49PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: How often do you use this functionality in your daily use of gnome? please answer honestly and I want a straight answer, don't give me a marketing answer. I do regularly mix middle click copy / paste with ctrl+c/v copy / paste.

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
-list@gnome.org desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:18 AM Subject: Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:34:49PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: How often do you use this functionality in your daily use of gnome? please answer honestly and I

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:44:17AM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: As Gnome is emulating the Android interface, you should know that if I wanted a Android interface to Linux, I would certainly go the Android route.    This is going highly offtopic. Android?!? People really care about the

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ionut Biru io...@archlinux.ro wrote: Hello Allan, I'm asking you from the position of being a linux user that had used middle click for years, 10 or more. How often do you use this functionality in your daily use of gnome? please answer honestly and I want

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 04:44 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: Gnome is emulating the Android interface citation needed? -- Marco Scannadinari ma...@scannadinari.co.uk ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-25 Thread Dave Johansen
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.comwrote: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: I have read discussion of making things easier for new users, the key word discoverable is used more than once on the page about the proposal, etc. Which page? Which

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-25 Thread Dave Johansen
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to middle-click have neither been finalised nor publicised. I

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-25 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 12:53 -0700, Dave Johansen wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-25 Thread Ray Morris
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com wrote: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: I have read discussion of making things easier for new users, the key word

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 25 September 2013 20:50, Dave Johansen davejohan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com wrote: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: I have read discussion of making things easier for new users, the key word discoverable

Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Ray Morris
Middle click got Slashdotted. Some of the comments on Slashdot may be of interest: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/1252243/middle-click-paste-not-for-long It seems to me that one should be careful of any change that may, in a few cases, make things simpler for users while they are

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Allan Day
Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com wrote: Middle click got Slashdotted. Some of the comments on Slashdot may be of interest: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/1252243/middle-click-paste-not-for-long Must be a slow news day. That story is almost a month old. It seems to me that

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Hashem Nasarat
On 09/24/2013 11:59 AM, tglman wrote: Really?? are you removing the middle-click-paste?? please don't do it!! tell me what I've to patch for keep it!! I'm ready to rewrite all Wayland !! tnks for all the job you are doing, it's really appreciate, I can say GNOME 3 is so easy to use that

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:15 -0400, Hashem Nasarat wrote: tnks for all the job you are doing, it's really appreciate, I can say GNOME 3 is so easy to use that also my grandmother can use it!! Please don't be disparaging to grandmothers who use GNOME.

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Luis Menina
Le 24/09/2013 18:15, Hashem Nasarat a écrit : Please don't be disparaging to grandmothers who use GNOME. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_could_do_it Do you know his grandmother? How do you know she doesn't use GNOME ? Please people, add real content to the topic, or

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread tglman
Really?? are you removing the middle-click-paste?? please don't do it!! tell me what I've to patch for keep it!! I'm ready to rewrite all Wayland !! tnks for all the job you are doing, it's really appreciate, I can say GNOME 3 is so easy to use that also my grandmother can use it!! but is

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Ray Morris
Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: You're making a lot of assumptions here. When this story broke it was on the basis of two commits, and had no other background information. I've read some of the discussion. The news stories did pick up on context menu, making it a non-default setting,

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Allan Day
Ray Morris webmastersguide2...@yahoo.com wrote: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: You're making a lot of assumptions here. When this story broke it was on the basis of two commits, and had no other background information. I've read some of the discussion. The news stories did pick up on

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 07:30:58PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to middle-click have neither been finalised nor publicised. I think it would be better to wait until the text

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 24 September 2013 19:49, Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 07:30:58PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to middle-click have neither been finalised

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Ray Morris
Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com said: I have read discussion of making things easier for new users, the key word discoverable is used more than once on the page about the proposal, etc. Which page? Which proposal? The wiki, for example:

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 20:00 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I think ”have not been publicised” is the exact pain point of design process. Wider community has no insight into design until it's finished. And it's too late for a meaningful input at that point. you need a design first, if

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Emmanuele Bassi (eba...@gmail.com) said: you need a design first, if you want to comment on it. also, to dispel a myth: no design is finished. ever. there is always time to fix things. there's also a certain amount of time between design and implementation, and then there's a certain

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Allan Day
Tomasz Torcz to...@pipebreaker.pl wrote: You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to middle-click have neither been finalised nor publicised. I think it would be better to wait until the text selection designs have

Re: Middle click, dumbing down Slashdotted

2013-09-24 Thread Allan Day
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Large changes in terms of the interaction paradigm, such as the switch from GNOME 2 and GNOME 3, can be problematic for users, but by presenting them with a very different interface, it can essentially 'force' a retraining, that can be assisted by