Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 20:51, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: My question to you would be, why didn't agreement ever get reached? Why, four years later, are we still arguing about desktop activity? I see a failure of cooperation; not of the design team's but rather of the whole

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 21:04 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:38 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Hi! I'd like to propose a new lock screen as a 3.6 feature. The new lock screen will - be styled to have a uniform look and feel as the rest of GNOME Shell - be

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 21:04 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:38 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Hi! I'd like to propose a new lock screen as a 3.6 feature. The new lock screen will - be styled to have a uniform look and feel as the rest of GNOME Shell - be

Re: Tentative feature: Custom activities

2012-04-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hello Phil, On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 21:54 +0100, Phil Housley wrote: Hello Gnome, (This is a bit long. Summary: Combine good bits of Gnome and Android application models.) I know there has already been a lot of discussion around the new style of Gnome applications, with the maximised by

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Florian Müllner
As I understand it, typing the password will switch to the password dialog, which is about as keyboard/non-touch friendly as it gets :-) Florian ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

2012-04-26 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 15:31 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: no way to find the audience that would be unbiased? Are you just implying that the current userbase of GNOME is so geekish that fair survey among

Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

2012-04-26 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
It isn't so much how people configure their keyboards as how they (a) switch between different languages/alphabets So, this means the option group grp:* is included. Which is obvious anyway... (b) insert special characters. Thus, misc:typo should be there, right? It was mentioned in your

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:38 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Hi! I'd like to propose a new lock screen as a 3.6 feature. The new lock screen will snip - allow user authentication with a password, pin, fingerprint, or smartcard Looking forward to that!

Re: Tentative feature: Custom activities

2012-04-26 Thread Phil Housley
On 26 April 2012 10:12, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: Hello Phil, On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 21:54 +0100, Phil Housley wrote: Hello Gnome, (This is a bit long. Summary: Combine good bits of Gnome and Android application models.) I know there has already been a lot of discussion

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Felipe Erias Morandeira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/04/12 03:04, Shaun McCance wrote: But I share Bhaavan's concern with having to physically drag the screen up. It's very cumbersome with a mouse. And aside from being inconvenient, without keyboard-only use it's not accessible. When a

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-26 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi Allan On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:27 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Apologies in advance for the long mail - there was no other way. There have been a few design-related threads on the list recently. I’m going to try and reboot those discussions in a slightly different and, I hope,

GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Last release we introduced the ability for applications to define a GMenu (or 'application menu'). This means that applications now have a place to locate global application (as opposed to per window) menu items. Some applications have already started to use a GMenu, and while this is

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Last release we introduced the ability for applications to define a GMenu (or 'application menu'). This means that applications now have a place to locate global application (as opposed to per window) menu items. Some applications

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Last release we introduced the ability for applications to define a GMenu (or 'application menu'). This means that applications now have a place to locate

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 26 April 2012 09:35, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Last release we introduced the ability for applications to define a GMenu (or 'application menu').

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 26 April 2012 09:35, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Last release we introduced

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:04 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 26 April 2012 09:35, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Last release we introduced the ability

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 26 April 2012 10:10, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 26 April 2012 09:35, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu,

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't know if Unity supports having both regular menus and a Gmenu at the same time. I don't know either, but I don't think it is relevant here - there is GMenu support for *both* app menu and window menu in

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 11:32 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: As I understand it, typing the password will switch to the password dialog, which is about as keyboard/non-touch friendly as it gets :-) If the implementation is just like the screenshots, I would never know that's the case without

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: ... I believe we were talking about keeping File/Edit/View while adding a GMenu. If so, the UI would be quite confusing if some things were taken out of the normal File/Edit/View menus. If all we're talking about is how

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Jakub Steiner
Hey Maciej, Why use PIN at all? (Apparently that is question for Windows 8 as well). Or is it for smartcards? PIN entry is an alternative authorization method for form factors where a typically long text entry (especially with numerals thrown in) is too much of a burden, like on a tablet

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Jakub Steiner
Hi Shaun, I *love* the idea of showing notifications and allowing control of media playback. It's something I've wanted for a very, very long time. But I share Bhaavan's concern with having to physically drag the screen up. It's very cumbersome with a mouse. And aside from being

OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

2012-04-26 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:23 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 26 April 2012 10:10, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: And I thought that desrt and Colin worked very hard to have this work with Ubuntu. I remember Colin talking about how hard this was because of integration between

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Philip Withnall
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:55 -0400, Jakub Steiner wrote: Hey Maciej, Why use PIN at all? (Apparently that is question for Windows 8 as well). Or is it for smartcards? PIN entry is an alternative authorization method for form factors where a typically long text entry (especially with

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: In some cases there will be a GMenu and a menu bar (with File/Edit/View...) for the same app, at least in the short term. There is some confusion about terminology here, so Ryan asked me to clarify :-) GMenu is a newly

Re: OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

2012-04-26 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ted Gould t...@gould.cx wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 10:23 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 26 April 2012 10:10, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: And I thought that desrt and Colin worked very hard to have this work with Ubuntu. I remember Colin

Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

2012-04-26 Thread Bhaavan Merchant
GMenu is a very good idea. The menu system has remained stagnant since the early software design days, and has become archaic. There is ambiguity as to location of various options (read Preferences in Edit or Tools, Select in Edit or elsewhere), For a new user, this is an evil which can be done

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-26 Thread Luca Ferretti
2012/4/25 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com: But there are challenges and things we can do better. Among those obstacles, I see: snip * giving people a stake in the project - the danger of design-led development is that people feel that the project is no longer theirs. They want to feel they

Re: Tentative feature: Custom activities

2012-04-26 Thread Diego Fernandez
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Phil Housley undeconstruc...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 April 2012 10:12, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: Hello Phil, On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 21:54 +0100, Phil Housley wrote: Hello Gnome, (This is a bit long. Summary: Combine good bits of Gnome and Android

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-26 Thread Jan Jokela
Hi all, Sorry in advance for the long e-mail and any eventual harsher remark :) For some time now it seems that the way to create, lets say a new core GNOME application has been to get someone from the design team to publish rude mockups for a couple of screens in that App and then passing it on

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Tomeu: On 04/26/12 02:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:10, Alberto Ruizar...@gnome.org wrote: I'm afraid that interfering in the maintainer's responsibilities is a very big can of worms, more likely to do harm than good. There's something powerful in how a maintainer

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Rovanion Luckey
2012/4/26 Jakub Steiner jim...@redhat.com We briefly touch (pun intended) on keyboard interaction at the bottom of the page. You should be able to unroll the curtain with Esc. If there is a sign on the curtain which says: Press Esc to roll up the curtain this will be easily discoverable and

Re: OT: Unity handling of Application menus (was: Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu)

2012-04-26 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 11:54 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ted Gould t...@gould.cx wrote: While there are few today, our goal here was to ensure that as new applications are developed it is expected that they'd use GMenuModel instead of traditional GTK

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Tomas Frydrych
Hi, On 25/04/12 23:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Technically, the code for fading out the screen and displaying the lock screen when the user becomes active again will be added to GNOME Shell, and the gnome-screensaver will no longer be used. There are security implications of this

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org wrote: 2012/4/25 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com: From my point of view the main issue (at least perceived as issue) in current design-develop workflow is explanation. While our design/ux team is able to produce great ideas,

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Tomas Frydrych tf+lists.gn...@r-finger.com wrote: Hi, On 25/04/12 23:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Technically, the code for fading out the screen and displaying the lock screen when the user becomes active again will be added to GNOME Shell, and the

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-26 Thread Felipe Erias Morandeira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/04/12 18:16, Luca Ferretti wrote: While our design/ux team is able to produce great ideas, frequently the only visible product of design work is a wiki page with poor info. Or, at least, poor compared with documents and info provided by

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Stef Walter
On 04/27/2012 01:00 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Tomas Frydrych tf+lists.gn...@r-finger.com wrote: Hi, On 25/04/12 23:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Technically, the code for fading out the screen and displaying the lock screen when the user becomes active

Re: 3.6 Feature: Lock Screen

2012-04-26 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Stef Walter st...@gnome.org wrote: On 04/27/2012 01:00 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Tomas Frydrych tf+lists.gn...@r-finger.com wrote: Hi, On 25/04/12 23:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: Technically, the code for fading out