Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-11-06 Thread Calum Benson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 17:56, William Jon McCann wrote: Very much agree with you. However, one of the things that strongly influenced the discussions at the GNOME UX Hackfest was the data released on the Windows 7 Shell blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/tags/Shell/default.aspx Yep, I

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-31 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:43 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 18:30 +, Calum Benson wrote: On 28 Oct 2008, at 16:00, Vincent Untz wrote: Don't know if you read Owen's post, which talks about how this could be implemented:

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-31 Thread Calum Benson
On 28 Oct 2008, at 18:36, Karl Lattimer wrote: Gather up data from humble users, performing a specific set of tasks which are challenging enough and enough like real life to build up decent data sets so we can tell what's wrong with it before we write _real_ code. On a related note, saw

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-31 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey Calum, On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Oct 2008, at 18:36, Karl Lattimer wrote: Gather up data from humble users, performing a specific set of tasks which are challenging enough and enough like real life to build up decent data sets so we

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-31 Thread Rui Tiago Cação Matos
2008/10/31 Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On a related note, saw this article about Windows 7 today, which includes some info on their new taskbar: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html Also of note is the video on

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-30 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 18:30 +, Calum Benson wrote: On 28 Oct 2008, at 16:00, Vincent Untz wrote: Don't know if you read Owen's post, which talks about how this could be implemented: http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/ I guess we'll have stuff

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread John Stowers
2008/10/28 Johannes Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! So after I finally got to read http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore and vuntz blogpost I was wondering if there is already a place where the prototyping of the new panel is happening. I guess quite some people

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd John Stowers: Personally I would not be sad if AWN were to replace gnome-panel all together (in the default install), but thats a story for another day. I really like AWN. I'd love if we could use it or some of it. Bikeshed: are we calling this gnome-shell after all? Maybe we

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Karl Lattimer
Maybe we could call it nemo after the captain of the Nautilus. AWESOME NAME K, ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Sandy Armstrong
Thomas Thurman wrote: Ysgrifennodd John Stowers: Personally I would not be sad if AWN were to replace gnome-panel all together (in the default install), but thats a story for another day. I really like AWN. I'd love if we could use it or some of it. Bikeshed: are we calling this

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:45 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: Ysgrifennodd Sandy Armstrong: Thomas Thurman wrote: Bikeshed: are we calling this gnome-shell after all? Maybe we could call it nemo after the captain of

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:00 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:45 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: Ysgrifennodd Sandy Armstrong: Thomas Thurman wrote: Bikeshed: are we calling this gnome-shell

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 28 octobre 2008, à 15:20 +, Karl Lattimer a écrit : Columbiad - the cannon from the book From earth to the moon ? Interesting -- I had the same proposal :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Dan Winship
Patryk Zawadzki wrote: Red October seems appropriate as the project will eventually surrender itself for reimplementation ;) Red October GNOME? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-October/msg00020.html -- Dan ___

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 27 octobre 2008, à 16:58 -0700, Johannes Schmid a écrit : Hi! So after I finally got to read http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore and vuntz blogpost I was wondering if there is already a place where the prototyping of the new panel is happening. I

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if you read Owen's post, which talks about how this could be implemented: http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/ I guess we'll have stuff in a svn module as soon as there's

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Calum Benson
On 28 Oct 2008, at 16:00, Vincent Untz wrote: Don't know if you read Owen's post, which talks about how this could be implemented: http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/ I guess we'll have stuff in a svn module as soon as there's proper code to show :-)

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Colin Walters
Hi Calum, On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we start as we hopefully mean to go on, by usability testing mockups of some alternative shell/panel designs first, to figure out if we're heading off in roughly the right direction before we even think

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-28 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:25 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: Hi Calum, On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we start as we hopefully mean to go on, by usability testing mockups of some alternative shell/panel designs first, to figure out if we're

Re: Prototyping the next generation panel?

2008-10-27 Thread Christopher Bratusek
Johannes Schmid schrieb: Hi! So after I finally got to read http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore and vuntz blogpost I was wondering if there is already a place where the prototyping of the new panel is happening. I guess quite some people would be interested.