Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 01:09, Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2011, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> I agree on the call for mocks; I wonder, though, if it might be good >> to make some of the ideas discussed here more concrete (or at least, >> more well-defined), and post them as "seed"

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Emdek
On 05-02-2011 at 11:06:08 Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >>> I have definitely seen this applet before Maybe it is in the >>> playground >> >> hm.. i see something in playground/base/plasma/applets/runnapplet > Aaron, I haven't checked there, but I know of a similar plasmoid that > exists here:

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 05 February 2011, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: > I agree on the call for mocks; I wonder, though, if it might be good > to make some of the ideas discussed here more concrete (or at least, > more well-defined), and post them as "seed" ideas when putting out the > call. > - Jeffery MacEach

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
>> I have definitely seen this applet before :) Maybe it is in the playground > > hm.. i see something in playground/base/plasma/applets/runnapplet Aaron, I haven't checked there, but I know of a similar plasmoid that exists here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Run+Command?content=91495 I'm j

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
I agree on the call for mocks; I wonder, though, if it might be good to make some of the ideas discussed here more concrete (or at least, more well-defined), and post them as "seed" ideas when putting out the call.  - Jeffery MacEachern On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:50, todd rme wrote: > On Thu, Fe

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
>> i don't think there's been a lot of critical thinking about dock usage. >> in   fact, the mac dock was roundly criticized when it came out by >> usability folks.   i'm not dead set against a dock, but i am against >> doing something because it's   a trend. and with docks, that's what we >> have

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

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 n

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 "Act

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

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ivan Čukić 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 idea, and

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 co

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 cou

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Emdek
On 03-02-2011 at 18:57:41 Aaron J. Seigo 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 other things that

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Emdek
On 03-02-2011 at 19:05:56 Ivan Cukic 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 exec. This is Ic

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread Ivan Cukic
> the suggestion is then to put favorites and runners in physical locality > to each other? I have no clue about the specifics of the original idea, just saying how it could be ;) BTW, on of the free DEs (forgot which one) had the standard win-like taskbar, and on Alt+Space (I encountered it by

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,

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ivan Cukic 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 with >> the

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 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 on >> m

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

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: 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 middl

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) >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Ivan Cukic 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 horizont

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 men

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:23 PM, todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, 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 s

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread Alex Fiestas
On 02/03/2011 02:23 AM, todd rme wrote: > So I see advantages to both approach. I think the most important > factor are ultimately: > 1. Do you have a lot of launchers? If so, then the icon-based task > manager is probably better > 2. Do you use grouping? If not, then the icon-based task manager

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, 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 no

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread Alex Fiestas
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 interested in making it a clone of windows7 :) I'm not inter

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 02 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > - more user interface, user experience, simplicity, very.. tactile. > > people who have various custom panel layouts will utterly, utterly hate > this and i have no desire to deal with the horrible flaming that will > result if we were to

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, alex.tolar wrote: > Why not a do-it-yourself gimpy mock-up? > http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-panel-470 oh, btw loved the mock up :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core deve

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, alex.tolar wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm Alex, I follow with passion your development and particularly this > thread. I have a modest Panel proposal to present, does it involve eating babies? (http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html ;) > simple and agreeable, > and,

the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread alex.tolar
Hello everybody, I'm Alex, I follow with passion your development and particularly this thread. I have a modest Panel proposal to present, simple and agreeable, and, I think, quick to implement. (1) Put an "Intelli-Size" button next to "Screen edge" and "Height" buttons on the panel menu: - wh

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-02 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 02 February 2011, Markus Slopianka wrote: > Am Dienstag 01 Februar 2011, 13:17:51 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > > Actually, Aaron expressed my thoughts about your comments exactly. > > If that's the case, you guys really should work on your self esteem. Just > because someone tells his

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Dienstag 01 Februar 2011, 13:17:51 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > Actually, Aaron expressed my thoughts about your comments exactly. If that's the case, you guys really should work on your self esteem. Just because someone tells his opinion he certainly does not necessarily demand his opinion t

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > (seems even a good jj that someone starting with plasma could do, please > put it into the wiki) by which Marco means this page: http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Tasks -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, todd rme wrote: > > Oh yes, another idea someone had that I forgot to mention: automatic > runner focus. In other words, when focus is on the desktop (or there > are no windows visible), and you start typing, automatically pull up > krunner and enter the text there. >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 04:40, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dario Freddi wrote: >> Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other >> points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. >> Sorry for not replying to other points, but I

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:00 PM, todd rme wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> hi... >> >> back when we started the path towards plasma i said that we needed to slowly >> evolve the desktop beyond the desktop folder with icons littered on the >> desktop. >> >> now w

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:07:58 Dario Freddi wrote: > Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other > points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. > Sorry for not replying to other points, but I see a lot of enthusiasm, > which is awesome, but

Re: the next step on the desktop: Improving Activities UI

2011-02-01 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:45:14 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > - Making KWin's taskswitcher more Activity-aware, for example by grouping > windows in the Boxswitch, by having some "chapter" visualization in > Coverswitch, or columns / grid in Present Windows Easy to achieve as TabBox uses a QAb

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, J Janz wrote: > However, it'd be quite helpful to have Video, Audio and Image activities, > where, taking the same amount of space at the desktop, I could have > respective folderviews grouped with some more plasmoids to easily provide > me more related content. For ex

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > > if on the other hand we would make possible like windows to send a widget > > to a subset of activities, this would become quite more complexm and i'm > > not sure is really something we want

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > if on the other hand we would make possible like windows to send a widget > to a subset of activities, this would become quite more complexm and i'm > not sure is really something we want to go intom, but maybe with nice > enough use cases... ;)

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Mario Fux wrote: > Yes. Should be more about documents and not about applications. The user > knows about documents and "files" but shouldn't need to know about > applications. E.g. "click on a document or media file" and not "start > application xyz". for document ce

Re: the next step on the desktop: Improving Activities UI

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Activities are indeed one of the big things. I think we've got the basics > right in 4.6, but it's not an obvious thing to integrate into your > workflow, yet. yes, seems like a good target for 4.7... > - easily assigning a window to an Acti

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, J Janz wrote: > became too small for the needs and has to be resized. Desktop and Dowloads > folderviews would be resized/repositioned once to all activities and > activities' specific plasmoids, if grouped, would only take one > resizing/repositioning to each group. >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > hm, yes, good points. perhaps we could do some sort of melding of what > > the newspaper containment does? a search area at the top, with results > > filling in below it, and a scrollable grid for widgets below that? > > Hm, maybe we would

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread J Janz
Boy, what a huge thread! I'm sorry I couldn't read it entirely yet (and even less find out about this around the web) and I'm sorry if you guys might have talked about it before but, as don't see it and you've been discussing activities, I want to offer at least something to polish the edges. I mi

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, January 31, 2011 21:22:51 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > * it's not really done for containing applets, would almost mean > > > > dropping desktop widgets: > > - right now it contains widgets in a little panel like strip with > > > > horizontal form factor. now overly pretty. > > > > - ma

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, January 31, 2011 18:17:58 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Ah and they deprecated the systray without having a replacement, but well > not our problem ;-) Au contraire. ;) The replacement is "unversioned javascript snippets" which you dump into some system directory, which then hook into GNOME

Re: the next step on the desktop: Improving Activities UI

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Activities are indeed one of the big things. I think we've got the basics right in 4.6, but it's not an obvious thing to integrate into your workflow, yet. On Monday, January 31, 2011 20:55:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Cukic wrote: > > > * have all activities av

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dario Freddi wrote: > Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other > points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. > Sorry for not replying to other points, but I see a lot of enthusiasm, > which is awesome, but also tr

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 01:09:54 Markus Slopianka wrote: > Dude, calm down a little. I was blaming no one of anything. Actually, Aaron expressed my thoughts about your comments exactly. It's not about calming down, but about having a useful discussion among Plasma developers. People don't

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Dario Freddi
Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. Sorry for not replying to other points, but I see a lot of enthusiasm, which is awesome, but also translates to: too much text :D However, preamble: thes

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Mario Fux
Am Montag 31 Januar 2011, 14.42:01 schrieb Marco Martin: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: Morning Finally I have read all the mails of this thread and hope to add some valuable information and no redundant one. > > back when we started the path towards plasma i said tha

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Mario Fux
Am Montag 31 Januar 2011, 21.29:01 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Čukić wrote: Morning > > > hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they > > > are stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to > > > send windows to any def

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
>> i'm trying to imagine a clever way to make it easy to go from a folder >> returned as a search result to a folderview on the desktop. it could be >> offered as an action on the QueryMatch, for instance, and make it easy to >> "pin" that folder to your current activity layout instead of going thr

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:29, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Čukić wrote: >> > hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they >> > are stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to >> > send windows to any defined activity. we

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:22, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > let's try something big and new. let's make that Big Move and step away >> > from ~/Desktop. >> >> to me the biggest dumb thing is

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Markus Slopianka wrote: > You asked for comments and I commented. So don't be a bitch just because my > opinion differs from yours! i was "a bitch" because i don't think it is too much to ask that we come to these kinds of discussion with informed ideas and opinion. w

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Markus Slopianka
Dude, calm down a little. I was blaming no one of anything. You need to understand that when somebody simply states what he observes (that programmers with many programs and windows open tend to like Activities more than people who execute only 3 applications) it's not an insult against anyone.

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > > Well, then I guess that the only thing we can do is wait until desktop > > summit and try to push the GNOME developers to collaborate again... > > +10 to that. > > > Is understandable that in t

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > it is time to go to that next step and move people away from the old > > > ways. > > > > yep, I would still like to push desktop bey

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Segunda, 31 de Janeiro de 2011 21:23:44 Steven Sroka você escreveu: > On 31 January 2011 14:51, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > >> So, if the situation is as bad as you think it is we should organize a > >> sprint or something and try to fix the curre

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > Well, then I guess that the only thing we can do is wait until desktop > summit and try to push the GNOME developers to collaborate again... +10 to that. > Is understandable that in their current situation they can't be commited > to any new sta

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Steven Sroka wrote: > Discourage people from using GNOME 3, by making KDE even better (as > stated above) and continue pushing it as a formidable desktop and not > by outwardly and publicly criticizing GNOME devs attitudes. You are > tip-toeing on a fine line. I say thi

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Steven Sroka
On 31 January 2011 14:51, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: >> So, if the situation is as bad as you think it is we should organize a >> sprint or something and try to fix the current freedesktop situation, > > that would require GNOME developers attending wi

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Fiestas
On 01/31/2011 08:51 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > that would require GNOME developers attending with the same goal in mind. > unfortunately, they have demonstrated repeatedly during gnome-shell > devleopment that they have no intention to cooperate more. if anything, they > have demonstrated that the

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > yeah, i see better to introduce changes at small steps. > for instance, we can put for 4.7 the milestone of screwing bit more with > the systray and merge toolbox and krunner (even have the activity chooser > ui there? I'm a bit intrigued with thi

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, January 30, 2011, todd rme wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > * a new panel layout (TBD: let's work on this together!) > > > * improve the tasks widget to have some of the nice features of widgets >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Čukić wrote: > > hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they > > are stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to > > send windows to any defined activity. we could put the stopped > > activities at the bottom of > >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > it is time to go to that next step and move people away from the old > > ways. > > yep, I would still like to push desktop beyond the desktop, resistence > against is so amazing that i f

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, January 30, 2011, todd rme wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > * a new panel layout (TBD: let's work on this together!) > > * improve the tasks widget to have some of the nice features of widgets > > like "smooth tasks" with the mouse over highlights >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Čukić
> hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they are > stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to send windows > to any defined activity. we could put the stopped activities at the bottom of What would that do? 1. Start the activity in question 2. Sto

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Cukic wrote: > > * have all activities avaiable in kactivitmanagerd, even if they are > > "stopped" in plasma-desktop > > ? Activities that are stopped are still in kamd. hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they are stopped; so a "b

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > So, if the situation is as bad as you think it is we should organize a > sprint or something and try to fix the current freedesktop situation, that would require GNOME developers attending with the same goal in mind. unfortunately, they have demo

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 31 January 2011 20:40:41 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) wrote: > > Panels, in the current implementation, are shared across different > > activities: what about adding an option like "stick to current activity", > > in order to achieve dif

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, January 31, 2011, Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) wrote: > Panels, in the current implementation, are shared across different > activities: what about adding an option like "stick to current activity", > in order to achieve different panels for different activities? as long as the UI is kep

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, January 30, 2011, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > let's try something big and new. let's make that Big Move and step away > > from ~/Desktop. > > Frankly, I like my dumping ground. and you can retain it. nobody is taking it away from you. even though i personally think you'd find far bett

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Čukić
> What about just middle-click on the group? I've had a talk (IRC) with Martin and I decided to pull out the proposal since due to one reason (at least for the time being) - it is not useful in general, but only for specific SDI applications. -- Cheerio, Ivan -- While you were hanging yourself

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Fiestas
On 01/31/2011 05:29 PM, Marco Martin wrote: >> and they are developing a new standard and already prepared a wiki page >> which includes all apps they need to change (also lists various KDE apps); >> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibili >> ty >> >> Ah and they

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, todd rme wrote: > > The same goes when using Konqueror with KWin tabs instead of innter tabs. > > > > While my main input device is the keyboard, I missed a button like this > > quite a few times. > > What about just middle-click on the group? > taken for ungrouping ;

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Fiestas
On 01/31/2011 05:04 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > duh! > so wouldn't break something that now is working after all ;) > all of this should depend on resolutions returning different values, so Imho we should disable that feature by default and improve the application default size. Maybe the correct way

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Ivan Cukic wrote: > >> you know ctrl+f7, do you? > > Yes, naturally, but having a key-shortcut for something doesn't mean there > shouldn't be a mouse-way for the same thing. (for example winmenu - alt > f3, close alt f4 etc.) > >> I don't think it's a good idea t

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Cukic
> you know ctrl+f7, do you? Yes, naturally, but having a key-shortcut for something doesn't mean there shouldn't be a mouse-way for the same thing. (for example winmenu - alt f3, close alt f4 etc.) > I don't think it's a good idea to add random buttons. It is not like it is a 'run A.M.O.R. ap

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011 17:09:51 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 31 January 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > > > On 01/31/2011 04:11 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > > > eh. > > > > *cough* statusNotifierItem *cough* ;) > > > > > > GNOME 3 doesn't use s

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 31 January 2011 17:38:21 Ivan Cukic wrote: > On Monday, 31. January 2011. 17.29.04 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > But changing the semantics of Maximized button depending on whether the > > app is modern or not is also a no go > > While we are on the topic of adding new captionbar buttons -

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 31 January 2011 17:49:19 Fredrik Höglund wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - > > > > > A Segunda, 31 de Janeiro de 2011 13:00:50 Marco Martin você escreveu: > > > > provocation: remove the maximize button by default? ;) (as t

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 31 January 2011 17:09:51 Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > > On 01/31/2011 04:11 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > > eh. > > > *cough* statusNotifierItem *cough* ;) > > > > GNOME 3 doesn't use statusNotifierItem? > > nope, they are still with xembed ones ;

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Cukic
> yeah, that as well, now it's possible with ctrl+click on the taskbar > group, but i don't think many people actually know it, it's so > carefully hidden ;) And it should work even if people (like me) don't use taskbar groups. Honestly, I always found that the taskbar was a misguided concept, b

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > On 01/31/2011 04:11 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > eh. > > *cough* statusNotifierItem *cough* ;) > > GNOME 3 doesn't use statusNotifierItem? nope, they are still with xembed ones ;) i think also support for systray icons at all was rushed in recently

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Ivan Cukic wrote: > On Monday, 31. January 2011. 17.29.04 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > But changing the semantics of Maximized button depending on whether the > > app is modern or not is also a no go > > While we are on the topic of adding new captionbar buttons - the thin

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 31 January 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote: > On 01/31/2011 03:35 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > yeah, tis is a good point indeed. > > what happens now when ap application that saved its geometry when closed > > on a bigger screen gets started on the small one? > > That you get used to maximize th

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Fiestas
On 01/31/2011 04:11 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > eh. > *cough* statusNotifierItem *cough* ;) GNOME 3 doesn't use statusNotifierItem? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Fiestas
On 01/31/2011 03:35 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > yeah, tis is a good point indeed. > what happens now when ap application that saved its geometry when closed on a > bigger screen gets started on the small one? That you get used to maximize the window because the window doesn't fit into the small scre

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Fredrik Höglund
On Monday 31 January 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - > > A Segunda, 31 de Janeiro de 2011 13:00:50 Marco Martin você escreveu: > > > provocation: remove the maximize button by default? ;) (as the netbook > > > doesn't have minimize) > > > > will talk to mgrslin t

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Ivan Cukic
On Monday, 31. January 2011. 17.29.04 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > But changing the semantics of Maximized button depending on whether the > app is modern or not is also a no go While we are on the topic of adding new captionbar buttons - the thing that I think would be nice is a a button to invoke p

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 31 January 2011 17:08:59 todd rme wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Martin Gräßlin > > wrote: > > - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - > > > >> A Segunda, 31 de Janeiro de 2011 13:00:50 Marco Martin você escreveu: > >> > provocation: remove the maximize button by default? ;) (

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 31 January 2011 16:11:45 Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung - > > > > > A Segunda, 31 de Janeiro de 2011 13:00:50 Marco Martin você escreveu: > > > > provocation: remove the maximize button by default? ;) (as the

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