Re: mouse plugins config

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:39, Chani chan...@gmail.com wrote: anyways, I'm not happy with the new strings at the bottom there. not happy at all. any suggestions? Hi Chani, I created a little screencast of the plugin configuration work flow. (Mainly because I have never done a screencast

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-24 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 20:13, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On October 22, 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: The disadvantage would be, that there's no preview area next to his editor. But it seems it would only be a picture of the latest save-point anyway. right, so that you can play

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 21:20, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On October 18, 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 18:22, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: not sure about making it an overlay: has it enough value to be always shown or can be usually hidden and shown

Re: IRC Meeting: virtual desktops 2.0

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 18:29, Aaron J. Seigoase...@kde.org wrote: works for me. before 10am would be ambitious. so perhaps 10am UTC? (which would be 11:00 here in Randa) Hi Aaron, if I'm not mistaken Randa uses CEST, which is UTC +2. I just want to see everyone's one the same page after I

Re: IRC Meeting: virtual desktops 2.0

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:37, Chanichan...@gmail.com wrote: which is, iirc, also GMT+1? it's the daylight savings that messes it up... Hi Chani, I'm not an expert on this matter, but, as far as I know, GMT is the same as UTC and, just as UTC, does not change during the course of the year.

Re: Please review: Virtual keyboard plasmoid - Plasmaboard

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 20:45, Aaron J. Seigoase...@kde.org wrote: i *think* i know what you want, but i'm not 100% positive. could you do up a small mock-up? doesn't have to be pretty, just show exactly what you're wanting. what i'm thinking of based on your description is a simple Label with

Re: Please review: Virtual keyboard plasmoid - Plasmaboard

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 01:49, Aaron J. Seigoase...@kde.org wrote: what sort of popup are thinking of or wanting? if you can give me a mockup or a screenshot, i'm sure we can make it happen ;) Hi Aaron, a good screenshot of what Björn is talking about, can be found here:

Re: user interface for mouse actions configuration

2009-08-01 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:00, Chanichan...@gmail.com wrote: I need to work on something *else* for a while. remind me of this email in 2-3 weeks, ok? :) Hi Chani, well it's almost 2+3 weeks later now, but this is your friendly reminder. :-) Just drop me a line, if you want to discuss the

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 16:54, Yuen Hoe Limyuenho...@gmail.com wrote: More screenies! http://yuenhoe.co.cc/blog/2009/07/some-early-plasmate-screenies/ I don't know how to work the timeline stuff yet so you'd have to refer to Diego's attachments for those :) As I was saying to Shantanu, I

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, I almost feel bad for asking you for the screenshots. You were of course right, there is not much to see yet in terms of workflow and other interactions. I think I understand your concerns with the sidebar now. And I agree with you completely; see my mockups.

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 14:09, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)morph...@openbossa.org wrote: Hello :) On Monday 13 July 2009, 13:48 Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) wrote: By the way, do we *really* need the sidebar ? Each item can be found in the final release of plasmate under the menubar, so I was

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:16, Yuen Hoe Limyuenho...@gmail.com wrote: There isn't much to look at now I think :P If you want I can grab a bunch of screenshots and post them on a blog or something - unless there is a rule of sorts against previewing unreleased stuff or the like? Hi Yuen,

Re: i18n bugs in plasma branch 4.3 + in trunk

2009-07-12 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 13:15, Burkhard Lücklu...@hube-lueck.de wrote: Ping? Hi Burkhard, if your ping means, you are waiting for an answer from Aaron, you should be aware, that: i'll be out in vancouver for the next two weeks or so arranging things for my move out there. i don't know what

user interface for mouse actions configuration

2009-07-01 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, hello Chani, I've seen your screenshot of the mouse actions configuration dialog at the plasma IRC meeting and in your recent blog post and I was wondering what your reasons were for making the user interface plugin based? I mean, letting the user select the plugin first and then

Re: default plasma theme and fallback

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 14:21, Marco Martinnotm...@gmail.com wrote: there are few possible solutions: a) not caring, be a bad boys and just require the themes to be complete (ok, not a solution this one :p) b)mantain oxygen as default and just load air instead of oxygen at kde startup c)have

Re: Fwd: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 18:44, Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) morph...@openbossa.org wrote: Sure...the only problem I see with posting things in planet to get feedback is that we get a biased feedback, and I'm looking for the feedback from non geek people too. This is where the designers I talked about

Re: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 18:42, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: other things are really chained by their nature to be an application presented as is, like games or things like a media player or a web browser, that are pretty central on a mid are really tied to the concept of application

Re: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:04, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: i think the central part of this project should be making that central icon vieew really solid, it should be able to show installed appplications (or even just the useful fraction of them) and or running apps, then for a

Re: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:46, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: given that someone doesn't find some revolutionary way to launch aplications (or call them tasks or activities or whatever) better than an icon grid... Cheers, Marco Martin Hi Marco, hihi, I guess that was what I was

Re: [IDEA] Google Summer of Code - plasmoid mixer with phonon lib

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Rudolph
2009/3/13 Aaron J. Seigo: but i wouldn't ever even DARE try and do the sensible thing here and turn kmix into a plasmoid that runs in a window that we can then also use on the desktop because i fear, and and i think rightfully so, that people like you would just block any such effort while

Re: Notifications Theming

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:36, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Trever Fischer wrote: On Tuesday 10 March 2009 12:15:53 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Friday 06 March 2009, Trever Fischer wrote: Are there any plans to, erm, extend the Extender class and provide

Re: Open source user experience

2009-02-19 Thread Michael Rudolph
2009/2/18 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: So we could just be happy that everybody likes us (well, besides ourselves, designers seem to like us :-), but we could also think about some kind of outreach program, with which we try to bring both

Open source user experience

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know, that recently there was a thread on the IxDA mailing list about open source user experience. http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=38371 I'm not sure you can read it without being subscribed; and I'm not sure it is all that interesting anyway :-)

Re: Desktop containment question

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 19:50, Sebastian Kügler se...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:41:05 Ambroz Bizjak wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:06:15 Jamboarder wrote: From: Ivan Čukić ivan.cu...@gmail.com Right now, there is no possibility to place widgets so that they go

Re: plasma checkerboard background

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:49, Davide Bettio davide.bet...@kdemail.net wrote: Hi, Does we have any plan to use something different? Like a gradient, an image or a solid color? Bye, Davide Bettio. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/15 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: - Why is the Dashboard only triggered on one screen? so you can work on one screen while pulling the dashboard of another forward. zooming is about getting overview, dashboard is about changing the (user

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/15 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: On Monday 15 December 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: 2008/12/15 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: - Why is the Dashboard only triggered on one screen? so you can work on one screen while pulling

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-13 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/10 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org: On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: If I'm not mistaken we're talking about explanations of some dashboard features and I'm wondering whether techbase is the right place for that, userbase seems to be better suited. But that's true

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/9 Hans Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You suggest this after seeing how horrible my English is? =) Unfortunately I can't promise anything. As I think I've written, I have some busy weeks ahead; probably won't be free until the end of January 2009. Are those even Frequently Asked Questions,

Re: Res: Review Request: This patch add an easy way to up/down brightness only scrolling on battery plasmoid top.

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 19:12, Fabrizio Montesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 18:50:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, what does moving the mouse wheel over the battery icon have to do with the brightness of my screen? at the very least it requires onscreen

Re: A toolbox is a toolbox

2008-11-10 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:31, Marco Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: Hello everyone, I just stumbled across this on gizmodo and wanted to share it with you: http://gizmodo.com/5080163/what-photoshop-would-look-like-in-real-life The idea

A toolbox is a toolbox

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, I just stumbled across this on gizmodo and wanted to share it with you: http://gizmodo.com/5080163/what-photoshop-would-look-like-in-real-life The idea is really amazing. I think occasionally reflecting upon the relation of real world tools and the metaphors we use in user

Re: taskbar: onlyGroupWhenFull

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/11/2 Sebastian Kügler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 02 November 2008 12:48:57 Michael Rudolph wrote: 2008/11/2 Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it depends if you want to just start an exploratory session or actually pitch a mostly- or wholey-formed idea. but the essentials generally

Re: taskbar: onlyGroupWhenFull

2008-11-01 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 23:10, Zack Rusin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008 13:44:32 Michael Rudolph wrote: I think, the solution would be to agree on some fundamental concepts of how a user's desktop (and his mobile phone, his entertainment system, car, ...) work

Re: gui hacking sessions?

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 14:44, Celeste Lyn Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like between 18:00-20:00 CET/ 12:00-14:00 EST is the time when many people are in #plasma and talking about UI stuff. Let's set that on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday for now, but I think Aaron's method for

Re: gui hacking sessions?

2008-10-21 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 18:50, Celeste Lyn Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2008 11:19:52 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: Would it make sense (and is there interest) for weekly (or scheduled somehow) GUI hacking sessions in

Recommended reading

2008-10-12 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, I added two new links to our recommended reading page on techbase the other day (http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/RecommendedReading) and noticed, that the list has become quite large already and I started wondering, whether it actually makes sense to add more and more

Re: QuickSand, an alternative interface

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/9/11 Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Ryan P. Bitanga wrote: It's still experimental, and some things don't work (like the configuration dialog) but it should provide a slightly different experience from the current interface as well as a more familiar one

Re: QuickLaunching : some ideas to improve user experience

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Loïc Marteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all ! I was thinking about how to improve user experience about QuickLaunching in kde. As a user I have already fill a bug report about that at the start of the year. Now, thanks to Aaron, we have panel auto-hiding

Re: Two patches for notes plasmoid

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/8/25 Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi Björn =) On Sunday 24 August 2008, Björn Ruberg wrote: 156312: Someone wanted to have the possibility to save the notes content to a file. why not =) Hello everyone, that's a rhetorical question, Aaron, right? 'Couse if it weren't, I'd

Re: Two patches for notes plasmoid

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Björn Ruberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, With the new functionality, we introduce the file system and thereby destroy the lovely humanity of the interface we previously had. Well, in that case you probably should drop folderview. ;) (oh no, please