Re: mouse plugins config

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:39, Chani 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 before and wanted to

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-24 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 20:13, Aaron J. Seigo 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.

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 21:20, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On October 18, 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 18:22, Marco Martin wrote: >> > not sure about making it an overlay: has it enough "value" to be always >> > shown or can be usua

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-18 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 18:22, Marco Martin wrote: > not sure about making it an overlay: has it enough "value" to be always shown > or can be usually hidden and shown only when needed? Hi Yuen Hoe, hi Marco, I don't think the preview should always be shown. If the preview feature were really,

Re: IRC Meeting: virtual desktops 2.0

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:37, Chani 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. Randa's timezone how

Re: IRC Meeting: virtual desktops 2.0

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 18:29, Aaron J. Seigo 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 already missed t

Re: Please review: Virtual keyboard plasmoid - Plasmaboard

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 20:45, Aaron J. Seigo 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 a solid >

Re: Please review: Virtual keyboard plasmoid - Plasmaboard

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 01:49, Aaron J. Seigo 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: http://mobilephonegeek.com/wp-conte

Re: user interface for mouse actions configuration

2009-08-01 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:00, Chani 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 current UI or my

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. http://skitch.com/mi

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 16:54, Yuen Hoe Lim 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 think KMenu's ha

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:16, Yuen Hoe Lim 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, yeah, that's basic

Re: Plasmate status

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 14:09, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) 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 wondering if we can

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 Lück 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 kind of internet ac

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 a

Re: default plasma theme and fallback

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 14:21, Marco Martin 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 a fallbac

Re: Strawman Proposal: Wireless Access Point Geolocation, and Location-Linked Behaviours

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 22:26, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote: > Hi! > > Location based behaviour linked to wireless AP geolocation within KDE > seems like an ubercool idea. I for one would probably be an avid user > of that feature if it gets implemented. It's a pitty that this wasn't > a GSoC idea

Re: Fwd: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 18:44, Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) 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 above are helping

Fwd: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, that's the email I wanted to send to all of you. Stupid gmail; or me! ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Rudolph Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 18:25 Subject: Re: Plasma on MID, take 2 To: morph...@openbossa.org On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 17:11, Artur

Re: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 18:42, Marco Martin 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 Hi Marco, r

Re: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:46, Marco Martin 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 aiming for. :-) I

Re: Plasma on MID, take 2

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:04, Marco Martin 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 really small scree

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 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 some >> >

Re: Open source user experience

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, just a little update on what happened outside of KDE regarding this matter. Shortly after I mentioned the thread here, the mozilla folks responded with the most basic form of outreach. They invited everyone to participate, highlighted their concept series, which had been mentioned

Re: Open source user experience

2009-02-19 Thread Michael Rudolph
2009/2/18 Aaron J. Seigo : > 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

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 :-) So

Re: Desktop containment question

2009-02-04 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 19:50, Sebastian Kügler 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 >> > > Right now, there is no possibility to place widgets so that they go off >> > > the desktop

Re: Welcome to 4.3.

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 21:35, Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> 2009/1/7 Aaron J. Seigo : >> >> aaand the big thing of course: >> >> plasma-mid: this one as far i understood doesn't depend totally from us, >> &

Re: Welcome to 4.3.

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Rudolph
2009/1/7 Aaron J. Seigo : > >> aaand the big thing of course: >> plasma-mid: this one as far i understood doesn't depend totally from us, >> but any development on that? > > yes, that's another area for R&D =) > Hello everyone, I'm not sure spying on the competition counts as R&D :-), but those w

Re: plasma checkerboard background

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:49, Davide Bettio 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 > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mai

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/15 Aaron J. Seigo : > On Monday 15 December 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> 2008/12/15 Aaron J. Seigo : >> > On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: >> >> - Why is the Dashboard only triggered on one screen? >> > >> > so you can w

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/15 Aaron J. Seigo : > 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 > perceive

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-13 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/12/10 Aaron J. Seigo : > 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 bett

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 Ques

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 onscre

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-photo

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 interfa

Re: taskbar: onlyGroupWhenFull

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/11/4 Sebastian Kügler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 01:07:10 Michael Rudolph wrote: >> So what I think would be a good thing and what I'd like to do and I >> was under the impression, that Aaron shared this conviction, is to >> engage

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

Re: taskbar: onlyGroupWhenFull

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/11/2 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 01 November 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> How would that work? > > 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

Re: taskbar: onlyGroupWhenFull

2008-11-01 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 22:13, Zack Rusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2008 16:19:32 Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> Doing a quick google search: group tasks annoying >> brought me to a discussions page about Windows XP > > Well, all your googling proves is that Microsoft along with

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 s

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 session

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 res

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 fami

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 au

Re: Two patches for notes plasmoid

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Matthias Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Rudolph schrieb: >> 2008/8/25 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Monday 25 August 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: >>>> What would be a use case for this "save a

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,

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices >> 6. research! > > Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend > to like in

Re: Two patches for notes plasmoid

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
2008/8/25 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> What would be a use case for this "save as" functionality? > > think of it as a "publish to" rather than a "save as" > Excellent, I didn'

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,