Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-29 Thread Jens Hatlak
MCBastos wrote: Well, if you can point me to a copy of the current art, I can see what I can do -- I'm not much of an artist, but I can fiddle with Gimp, resize and retouch the current one to improve it a bit. You can find all Sync button images here: chrome://communicator/skin/sync/ The

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-29 Thread Philip Chee
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:06:02 +0200, Jens Hatlak wrote: MCBastos wrote: Well, if you can point me to a copy of the current art, I can see what I can do -- I'm not much of an artist, but I can fiddle with Gimp, resize and retouch the current one to improve it a bit. You can find all Sync

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-29 Thread Jens Hatlak
Philip Chee wrote: I wonder if it's practicable to take the 32x32 static PNG and create a APNG by rotating the static png for each frame? Maybe, probably depends on the tools and the knowledge of the one who uses them. For me it was much easier to take the existing throbber and resize it,

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-28 Thread Jens Hatlak
Bill Spikowski wrote: I agree that SOMETHING is needed to show that Sync is working, preferably something that could be disabled (Don't show this window again). As is, one has no idea if Sync is working, how it's working, if it's stopped working, etc. You can add a customizable toolbar icon.

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-28 Thread Bill Spikowski
Jens Hatlak wrote: Bill Spikowski wrote: I agree that SOMETHING is needed to show that Sync is working, preferably something that could be disabled (Don't show this window again). As is, one has no idea if Sync is working, how it's working, if it's stopped working, etc. You can add a

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-28 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 27/06/2011 18:06, Jens Hatlak told the world: It's what I was able to come up with in the short time I had. The alternative was to not have icons in different sizes and no throbber at all. If anyone comes up with better graphics our reviewers would surely like to see

Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-27 Thread Norman Fuchs
I have added a number of computers to sync with my desktop, but I'm not sure I did it all correctly. On both my desktop and a laptop the computer name displayed under Preferences Sync is the same. Is that right? I'm not sure how sync works -- if I tell my laptop to sync, does it import the

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-27 Thread Jens Hatlak
Norman Fuchs wrote: I have added a number of computers to sync with my desktop, but I'm not sure I did it all correctly. On both my desktop and a laptop the computer name displayed under Preferences Sync is the same. Is that right? No. You won't lose much this way, but only if you use

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-27 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Jens Hatlak wrote: Norman Fuchs wrote: I have added a number of computers to sync with my desktop, but I'm not sure I did it all correctly. On both my desktop and a laptop the computer name displayed under Preferences Sync is the same. Is that right? No. You won't lose much this way, but

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-27 Thread Jens Hatlak
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: If I were syncing files as in Windows Explorer, I would want to be able to tell it take the most recent version of each file, and if one computer lacks it, give it a copy. So to translate for the case of SM, if one bookmark file had A, B, C and the other had A, B, D, I

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-27 Thread Jens Hatlak
MCBastos wrote: By the way, is there a bug to discuss the UI aspects of the Sync feature? Sync UI has its own Bugzilla Component under Product SeaMonkey. You can easily search what's there. But Bugzilla is not really the place for longer discussions, so here we go: - Change the toolbar

Re: Sync on SM 2.1 -- What is computer name?

2011-06-27 Thread Bill Spikowski
Jens Hatlak wrote: MCBastos wrote: - Provide an alternative, less intrusive feedback (like a statusbar mini-icon) to show that Sync is working/worked/failed? Sync had a status bar icon in the beginning but it was removed for several reasons (one was the idea that Sync should just work, the