Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Ivan Cukic
Hi all, Sorry, I forgot to write who wrote which quote... 1 On the horizontal application launchers While the horizontal format is fine for a few icon-only launchers (quick launch, docks etc.), the idea to Have it open a horizontal menu that replaces or covers the panel entirely. This menu

New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
Hello, For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. One of the projects we're doing is to try and make Unity more accessible. To that end we'd like to add properties to add accessible labels for the icons that could be given to screen readers. We're planning on issuing

New properties for StatusNotifierItem (0/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
Hello, I'd like to propose some new properties to be added to the SNI interface for a couple of projects in the Application Indicator framework that we have over here. We'd love it if you guys would consider adopting them in the base spec. Also, if you have comments on how to make them better I

New properties for StatusNotifierItem: (Not|Only)ShowIn (2/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
Hello, For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. We also started to use some of the application indicators from applications in the launcher on the left side of the screen. We use the application indicator to provide additional menus for the launcher which we call a quick

New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Desktop Key (3/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
Hello, For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. We'd like to suggest an additional key for .desktop files that lists the IDs of Status Notifier Items that an application exports. This will allow us to better match SNI items when we are using them as quicklists, as errors

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem (0/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: Hello, I'd like to propose some new properties to be added to the SNI interface for a couple of projects in the Application Indicator framework that we have over here. We'd love it if you guys would consider adopting them in the base spec.

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: Hello, For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. One of the projects we're doing is to try and make Unity more accessible. To that end we'd like to add properties to add accessible labels for the icons that could be given

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: (Not|Only)ShowIn (2/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: Hello, For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. We also started to use some of the application indicators from applications in the launcher on the left side of the screen. We use the application indicator to provide

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Desktop Key (3/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: Hello, For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. We'd like to suggest an additional key for .desktop files that lists the IDs of Status Notifier Items that an application exports. This will allow us to better match SNI

Review Request: Add option to qalculate to show the result in different bases at the same time

2011-02-03 Thread Jef Steelant
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100533/ --- Review request for Plasma. Summary --- Add the option to qalculate

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem (0/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:27 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: I'd like to propose some new properties to be added to the SNI interface for a couple of projects in the Application Indicator framework that we have over here. We'd love it if you guys

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:37 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: One of the projects we're doing is to try and make Unity more accessible. To that end we'd like to add properties to add accessible labels for the icons that could be given to screen

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: (Not|Only)ShowIn (2/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:41 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: We also started to use some of the application indicators from applications in the launcher on the left side of the screen. We use the application indicator to provide additional menus for

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Desktop Key (3/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:45 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: We'd like to suggest an additional key for .desktop files that lists the IDs of Status Notifier Items that an application exports. This will allow us to better match SNI items when we are

Re: Review Request: Add option to qalculate to show the result in different bases at the same time

2011-02-03 Thread Matteo Agostinelli
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100533/#review1178 --- Ship it! Except for one comment, it looks fine. Can you commit

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hey, On Thursday, February 03, 2011 15:29:38 Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:37 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: One of the projects we're doing is to try and make Unity more accessible. To that end we'd like to add properties to add

Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able to add buttons to their thumbnails in the task manager. Use cases could include play and pause buttons on media players, or tab lists on web browsers. I got what I interpreted as positive feedback when I mentioned this

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Ivan Cukic ivan.cu...@kde.org wrote: Hi all, Sorry, I forgot to write who wrote which quote... 1 On the horizontal application launchers While the horizontal format is fine for a few icon-only launchers (quick launch, docks etc.), the idea to Have it open a

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On the other hand, it requires application developers to add another string in their code to all UI elements -- something which might be easily forgotten by those that don't care a lot about a11y (I fear that this applies to a lot of developers). Falling back to the tooltip sounds like

Re: Review Request: Add option to qalculate to show the result in different bases at the same time

2011-02-03 Thread Jef Steelant
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100533/ --- (Updated Feb. 3, 2011, 3:58 p.m.) Review request for Plasma. Changes

Re: Review Request: Add option to qalculate to show the result in different bases at the same time

2011-02-03 Thread Jef Steelant
On Feb. 3, 2011, 3:15 p.m., Matteo Agostinelli wrote: applets/qalculate/qalculate_labels.h, lines 32-56 http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100533/diff/1/?file=8207#file8207line32 I don't understand why you created the AppletSettings class. Wouldn't it be easier to simply pass a

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: On 02/02/2011 09:57 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: --- About taskmanager: (1) use only icons (this already happens when taskbar is full): - icon size on the panel should be shortcut size (launcher size, =Kickoff) i'm not

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Thursday 03 February 2011 16:51:34 todd rme wrote: or tab lists on web browsers. Just as a note: I'm working on that together with rekonq developers (see complete thread [1]). I expect to start the kwin side of the implementation after shadow rework. Cheers Martin [1]:

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, todd rme wrote: what would be helpful is to do a mockup of your ideas below, and keep evolving it as we continue the discussion. 1. Get rid of favorites from the application launcher. Focus on making runners easy, intuitive, and clear. These go in the

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Ivan Cukic
A.S. I might sound like I'm totally against the ideas proposed, I'm not - I'm just pointing out the potential problems instead of just +1-ing the good parts. That doesn't seem to be a problem with the add widgets dialog, or with the default Dolphin icons view, either.. I think it is fine if

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: (Not|Only)ShowIn (2/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, Ted Gould wrote: We also started to use some of the application indicators from applications in the launcher on the left side of the screen. We use the application indicator to provide additional menus for the launcher which we call a quick list. We're

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
first, thanks for working with us on this Ted. it really helps keep things moving forward in a coordinate fashion, and makes our lives (and hopefully yours) a lot brighter. :) oh, and you don't need to CC Marco and I, we're on the plasma-devel list :) On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, Ted Gould

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Ivan Cukic
1. Get rid of favorites from the application launcher. Focus on making runners easy, intuitive, and clear. These go in the middle. don't favourites and krunner do rather different things? They do, but when you use krunner, that means you don't have the thing you want in favs. (this one

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Desktop Key (3/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, Ted Gould wrote: We'd like to suggest an additional key for .desktop files that lists the IDs of Status Notifier Items that an application exports. This will allow us to better match SNI items when we are using them as quicklists, as errors are very

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, todd rme wrote: what would be helpful is to do a mockup of your ideas below, and keep evolving it as we continue the discussion. 1. Get rid of favorites from the application launcher.  Focus

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: There are ways to strongly suggest application developers to define such strings: for example outputing warnings on stderr when a KSNI goes live without having proper a11y properties set. catching and punishing sins (though a warning is

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On the other hand, it requires application developers to add another string in their code to all UI elements -- something which might be easily forgotten by those that don't care a lot about a11y (I fear that this applies to a lot of

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 16:51:34 todd rme wrote: or tab lists on web browsers. Just as a note: I'm working on that together with rekonq developers (see complete thread [1]). I expect to start the kwin side of the implementation

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able to add buttons to their thumbnails in the task manager. Use cases could this be done with the status notifier spec? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint:

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ivan Cukic ivan.cu...@kde.org wrote: A.S. I might sound like I'm totally against the ideas proposed, I'm not - I'm just pointing out the potential problems instead of just +1-ing the good parts. That doesn't seem to be a problem with the add widgets dialog, or

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able to add buttons to their thumbnails in the task manager.  Use cases could this be done with the status

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Thursday 03 February 2011 18:47:01 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 16:51:34 todd rme wrote: or tab lists on web browsers. Just as a note: I'm working on that together with rekonq developers (see complete

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Ivan Cukic wrote: 1. Get rid of favorites from the application launcher. Focus on making runners easy, intuitive, and clear. These go in the middle. don't favourites and krunner do rather different things? They do, but when you use krunner, that means

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able to add buttons to their thumbnails in the task manager. Use cases could this be done with the status notifier spec?

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able to add buttons to their thumbnails in the task

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Desktop Key (3/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:45 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: could still be a bit error prone, but i can't think of more automatic ways. it could also be done on the other way around, by having a list of desktop file paths as a property of the

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: One

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: (Not|Only)ShowIn (2/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Ted Gould wrote: The use case was use cases! excellent ... :) people wanting different menus on the panel vs. on the launcher. crazy idea: different menus from the same SNI for different (well-defined in the spec) contexts? if the SNI only provides a generic

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:37 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: One of the projects we're doing is to try and make Unity more accessible. To that end we'd like to add properties to add accessible

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote: But how does the visualization know how to arrange things? metadata. if there isn't enough metadata or the right sort, we add it. Also, there is the issue with passing pixmaps. this is already available in the spec :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Emdek
On 03-02-2011 at 19:05:56 Ivan Cukic ivan.cu...@kde.org wrote: BTW, on of the free DEs (forgot which one) had the standard win-like taskbar, and on Alt+Space (I encountered it by accident) it would replace the taskbar with a 'run' text field. I liked it, but it was no krunner - simple shell

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Emdek
On 03-02-2011 at 18:57:41 Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: hm.. i see something in playground/base/plasma/applets/runnapplet will have to check it out. I guess you mean runcommand, there is no directory runnapplet there (at least on SVN). It uses own dialog for results and maybe some

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 18:47:01 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 16:51:34 todd rme wrote: or tab lists on web browsers. Just as a note: I'm working on

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Fiestas
Well seems that despite of the differences in our thoughts, there are a couple of points that everybody agrees on: 1-Maximize the usage of Favorites 2-Maximize the usage of KRunner 3-Find new ways of showing Favorites. Going beyond that in the mailist will be difficult, maybe an irc session

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Ivan Čukić
This is IceWM, very useful feature when you have very limited resources. ;-) Strangely enough, I use it from time to time, but completely forgot it was from there :) --- Well, we definitely need mocks of everything, this idea, and everything else people can devise. Maybe we should ask the

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ivan Čukić ivan.cu...@kde.org wrote: This is IceWM, very useful feature when you have very limited resources. ;-) Strangely enough, I use it from time to time, but completely forgot it was from there :) --- Well, we definitely need mocks of everything, this

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: * this would look sexy * would show explicitly a way out of the browser * would mark a prototype on how a full desktop application could look without painting limitations qwidgets now have * enough? ;) this would be truly awesome; merging

Re: Thumbnail buttons and actions

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: * this would look sexy * would show explicitly a way out of the browser * would mark a prototype on how a full desktop application could look without painting limitations qwidgets now

Re: Review Request: Add option to qalculate to show the result in different bases at the same time

2011-02-03 Thread Matteo Agostinelli
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100533/#review1184 --- Ship it! Great! Please commit/merge. Thanks! - Matteo On

the next step on the desktop : what now?

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, so, we had an astonishing inflow of ideas, opinions and use cases during these days, this was really great, keep em coming! It's amazing how much passion and energy there still is in this particular topic, as the thread says, the next step on the desktop. As ideas flows, there is an

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 03 February 2011, alex.tolar wrote: Good night everybody, Yo, good evening. thanks for the feedback I really think you should subscribe to the list, will be easier to keep the discourse pen ;) About Activities - detail: switch Add spacer button on the Panel menu with Activities

Re: tokamak five

2011-02-03 Thread Ivan Čukić
I can do April, but not before 11th. what we want to do, what the architecture of libplasma2 could be.. (good news, Bring the aspirins for this one :) location I propose something not in the Arctic circle :) Do we have something/someone in Vienna or similar? -- While you were hanging

Re: tokamak five

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: Hi all, It seems it's that time of the year again :) I would really like we could have a little meeting again, maybe around april? I tink this time it would be nice to hae few people (10-15? but i want at least a couple of new faces there

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, alex.tolar wrote: Good night everybody, I'm not using Windows since Ubuntu Dapper Drake, and Macintosh since before the colored iMacs: can't care less. Win7, OsX, Gnome3, Unity and many minor distros adopted a Dock: maybe not for a fool reason at all. I'm not

Re: tokamak five

2011-02-03 Thread Artur de Souza
Quoting Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com: Hi all, It seems it's that time of the year again :) And that is great! :) I would really like we could have a little meeting again, maybe around april? I tink this time it would be nice to hae few people (10-15? but i want at least a couple of new

apply buttons in config dialogs

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi.. some may have noticed that i enabled the apply button by default in widget config dialogs. i found a cute little hack to make the apply buttons deactivate properly on ok/apply being hit. (or so i hope :) now what we need to do is run around to all the C++ plasmoids and connect the

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 16:24 +0100, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On the other hand, it requires application developers to add another string in their code to all UI elements -- something which might be easily forgotten by those that don't care a lot about a11y (I fear that this applies to a lot of

Re: New properties for StatusNotifierItem: (Not|Only)ShowIn (2/3)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 09:19 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: What we'd like to add is two properties that are lists of strings: NotShowIn and OnlyShowIn. These would work exactly the same as the same properties in Desktop files where an

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - On Thursday, February 3, 2011, alex.tolar wrote: Good night everybody, I'm not using Windows since Ubuntu Dapper Drake, and Macintosh since before the colored iMacs: can't care less. Win7, OsX, Gnome3, Unity and many minor distros adopted a Dock:

Re: tokamak five

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - On Thursday, February 3, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: Hi all, It seems it's that time of the year again :) I would really like we could have a little meeting again, maybe around april? I tink this time it would be nice to hae few people (10-15? but