Re: [Unity-design] adding a startup application is not average user friendly

2012-03-05 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
2012/3/5 Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com Right. I wouldn't want a quicklist item for it. When you pin an application, it should automatically get an entry in startup applications, but it should remain unchecked. This could be confusing. Some folks could think that adding a

Re: [Unity-design] Change Audio Output Device From Indicator

2012-03-21 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Long time ago on ubuntu.brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23754/ ... I love Ubuntu but brainstorm is dead. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help :

Re: [Unity-design] Blank disc quicklist

2012-03-31 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Hi Ed Mountjoy You could fill a bug and post the bug nr. here. +1 like your suggestion On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Ed Mountjoy emount...@gmail.com wrote: At the moment if a blank disc (CDR/DVD) is inserted it shows up on the launcher and by right clicking the user has the choice of

[Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-06 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
When maximizing the installed programs in the Application Lens there are way too many icons that are meaningless to average users, cluttering the 'Installed' scope and reducing the usefulness furthermore. Just an idea popped up to my mind on how to reduce the clutter a bit without loosing

Re: [Unity-design] Reduce Dash Icon Clutter

2012-04-07 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Nekhelesh krnekhel...@gmail.com wrote: If that is the case, we can remove all the desktop files and add them as keywords to the existing system setting desktop file. This way when people search for privacy, or background or any settings, the system settings is

Re: [Unity-design] List - 12.04 Default Application Keyboard Shortcuts

2012-04-19 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Hi Together with others, I have created a LibreOffice Calc table that contains all Ubuntu 12.04 default application shortcuts. It would be really nice if this list could be added to the example folder of the Ubuntu 12.04 CD. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/985891 Greetings

[Unity-design] IMHO - UX pre Quantal Quetzal

2012-05-17 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
*Part I - UX pre Quantal Quetzal* Some days ago an Idea came up to my mind, lets writehttps://plus.google.com/111583136332687352922/posts/VticguT1jZyabout the current status of default Ubuntu before quantal and compare it with the final release in some months. ★bad ★★

Re: [Unity-design] Nautilus' Context Menus Getting Out of Hand

2012-06-24 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
I think too that the context menu needs to be redesigned. Another thing that I think is missing are *content aware actions* for the most common use cases - therefore I like the idea of the 'Further Action' menu http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24505/. *We have the year 2012 an it should be

Re: [Unity-design] Idea - Unity Preview Nautilus Content Aware Modules

2012-08-29 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Hey, you are right, Unity Modules are kind like Android Intents :) My idea is more focuses on the three points: Unity *Dash*, *Nautilus*, *CLI *(ascii). I don't know if Android Intents would work great for the use case I talked about in the first mail. Having a fix and simple extensible interface

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

2012-09-25 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Sam Hewitt hewittsam...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sort of redacting some things: accounting for folks with colour-vision deficiencies the circles aren't the best scheme. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness: *Color blindness *(red-green)*

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

2012-09-25 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Wow, like it a lot. Now is the question if something similare can be done for the envelope. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sam Hewitt hewittsam...@gmail.com wrote: I made some slight modifications to the circles (added some symbols):

[Unity-design] EOG - Display Google Photosphere

2012-11-02 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looking at this picture(s) I wonder if EOG can display that kind of images too. I guess that we will see ^^ them in future a lot. Click the maximize button and move around using the mouse:

Re: [Unity-design] EOG - Display Google Photosphere

2012-11-04 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
later. Imagine you connect your phone to your PC and can't view all images... Le 04/11/2012 12:11, Alan Bell a écrit : On 02/11/12 23:30, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: Looking at this picture(s) I wonder if EOG can display that kind of images too. I guess that we will see ^^ them in future a lot

[Unity-design] suggestion – set default lens in system settings

2012-11-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Hi I think it would be great if it was possible to set the default lens, the lens that is shown when pressing SUPER, in system settings to another lens. This way the Dash experience could be more personalized. Some users might use the Dash mostly for file search other for application or what

[Unity-design] suggestion – add a local search lens to the default Ubuntu install

2012-11-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Now that the home lens searches the net too it would be nice to have a lens that searches only locally. This way people could switch between searching online and offline easily without the need to deactivate some scopes. Coupled with my other suggestion 'set default lens in system settings' user

[Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
I would like to suggest the removal of all Sort-By buttons in all applications shipped with Ubuntu. The reasons: - they can break the UX in an app for an average user completely - they are rarely used - we don't need them Instead make a default how content should be sorted in Ubuntu and stick to

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Josh Strawbridge holyknightjos...@gmail.com wrote: just because an application ships with ubuntu doesn't mean that ubuntu has anything to do with actually working on the program. I'm aware about that. The reason why I post it here is because I think it's an

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-11 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
As well as being simple for a basic user facilities that more sophisticated users need must be provided. Next you will be suggesting removing split screen and tree view from Nautilus. No-one would ever suggest that. The split view is not a feature in the main UI window of nautilus causing

Re: [Unity-design] Kill The Sort-By Button

2012-12-18 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Petko pditc...@gmail.com wrote: First a few notes : 1. The feature in question is very old ,and a lot of people have their way around it . 2. Inheriting the info from 1. - I'm not quite sure how many people (old as they may be) have a problem with the

[Unity-design] update-manager - install updates automatically

2013-02-05 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all Image: http://ubuntuone.com/3aMCJeZsEf9FISqiNqX5uw It would be nice if the user could tell the update-manager to download and install updates automatically (security and normal updates). By default the check-box (see mock-up) should not be

[Unity-design] Thoughts on Unity Next

2013-04-29 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
With Unity Next upcoming there will be some changes and I would like to suggest some more xD Maybe some of the ideas reach the persons who are in charge to design / develop some of the talked areas and consider what I wrote down here. UX improvements = * Kill all pop-up windows,