On Saturday 15 March 2008 02:25:43 Remco wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, there aren't any ext3 defrag tools anyway (ok maybe a few userspace
ones, but that seems unusual), so we can avoid *that* bit of the argument,
but there is NTFS
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 10:56 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
I thought so, but it looks like people don't make the difference between
preferences (personal) and administration (ugly system and hardware
stuff). The fact is that we are now turning round. Anyway, we should
make clear whther we
Greg K Nicholson a écrit :
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:19 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
You'd call it My
Diary because you are creating it for yourself.
The user doesn't label the Preferences menu for themself—the label is
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 10:56 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Or we ca say User Preferences, with this Administration will
appear
much clearer.
If that's not possible, just “Preferences” will do—the word “preference”
tends to imply *personal* preference anyway.
I thought so, but it
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Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote on 15/03/08 08:22:
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
...
Please also take care of not doing this change alone - you're aware
of that since you asked the list. This should be discussed with GNOME,
since they
Cory K. wrote:
Just wondering. Do any of you know how this is technically implemented
and what it could possibly effect?
-Cory K.
Well, it depends on what you want to do. If the point is just to change
the menu layout and labels , it only affect gnome-menus. But to change
an entry like
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Anyway, do we validate Preferences to Your Preferences ?
I'd say My preferences, as Remco argued few mails before:
Those are different things. Those tool tips are like a teacher
directly speaking to you. But the text in programs is about the
Remco wrote:
(I could've sworn that I hit Reply to All... oh well, I'm sorry for
the double emails to you, Greg. )
I sent the following to Greg an hour ago:
I think that a simple renaming or merging isn't going to fix this. The
complete configuration system has to be thought out. Someone
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Cory K. wrote:
Just wondering. Do any of you know how this is technically implemented
and what it could possibly effect?
-Cory K.
Well, it depends on what you want to do. If the point is just to change
the menu layout and labels , it
Dear gnome developers and Users,
We are having on ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list a discussion about
refactoring the gnome menu layout.
To have more information on the subject of this discussion, please have
a look at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/174277
So I the point is, I
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wondering. Do any of you know how this is technically implemented
and what it could possibly effect?
I found this article to be gold:
http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/03/14/some-thoughts-on-ubuntu-brainstorm
(sorry for
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be
very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are
different applications). So there is 2 solutions I see :
- Using sub menu for section :
System
`
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:19 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
You'd call it My
Diary because you are creating it for yourself.
The user doesn't label the Preferences menu for themself—the label is
applied by the computer.
“My” is only ever used
Ioannis Nousias wrote:
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be
very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are
different applications). So there is 2 solutions I see :
- Using sub menu for
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Ioannis Nousias wrote:
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be
very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are
different applications). So
I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks.
Clarifying the confusion around Preferences Administration is IMHO a
good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it.
Naming them User Preferences and System Administration can be nice
since it's not too
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote :
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks.
Clarifying the confusion around Preferences Administration is IMHO a
good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it.
Naming
Hi!
I think it's weird in itself that the configuration menu is as
important as the applications or places menus are. In a well running
system the user is basically never exposed to any settings, so
(although this should be discussed with GNOME) I would rather opt for
hiding the whole System menu
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) a écrit :
I like the proposal. Moving from
System
| - Preferences
` - Administration
to
Configuration
| - Your Preferences
` - System Administration
Is every one okay with this one ?
To me it's seems clearer: *Configuration* is more generic and
Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit :
Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) a écrit :
I like the proposal. Moving from
System
| - Preferences
` - Administration
to
Configuration
| - Your Preferences
` - System Administration
Is every one okay with this one ?
To me it's seems clearer:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe another configuration applet is needed: Storage. With things
like indexing, backups, restore points, partition management and maybe
even defragmentation. But Ubuntu is lacking a bit with backups,
restore points and
On 15/03/08 10:33, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
Well, there aren't any ext3 defrag tools anyway (ok maybe a few
userspace ones, but that seems unusual), so we can avoid *that* bit of
the argument, but there is NTFS support, and that definitely *does*
need to be defragged.
You don't mean formatted
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, there aren't any ext3 defrag tools anyway (ok maybe a few userspace
ones, but that seems unusual), so we can avoid *that* bit of the argument,
but there is NTFS support, and that definitely *does* need to be
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wondering. Do any of you know how this is technically implemented
and what it could possibly effect?
-Cory K.
I browsed a bit through my filesystem, and it seems like the menu
consists of a bunch of files in
Dear developers,
I am working on a bug on Launchpad
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/174277 and I suddenly though
that I might ask here if the effort I am doing are worthy ( I wouldn't
like to work a lot on this bug and have my patches refused :-) ) .
So could you please have a
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