Il giorno mar, 31/03/2009 alle 11.40 +, Brian J. Murrell ha scritto:
>
> I never minimize my pidgin windows. I also use devilspie to have them
> skip the tasklist and be visible on all workspaces. As a tool,
> pidgin/IM is as important to me as are the panels and window
> management,
> etc.
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 07:37 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
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> Not completely clear: do you have your IM open minimised windows in
> front of you or what is your preferred method of being notified?
No. I have two windows (I use pidgin) displayed all of the time. I
never minimize them. One win
On 30/03/2009 Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>
> Disagree. I don't fiddle with my IM status. If I'm busy, I just
> ignore
> you because you don't get to pop up a window in front of my work. I
> deal with you when I have a chance. I expect to treat my System in
> the
> same way.
Not completely clea
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 20:50 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>
> Now that gives me one more argument to adopt the "instant messaging"
> interaction pattern: users deal with IM every day. When they don't want
> to be disturbed they set their status to "busy". We have support for
> this in the FUSA
On 30/03/2009 Michael Rooney wrote:
> > > But the windows itself could be minimised. Let's explore that. I
> > > think it may be too late for Jaunty but I'll see what we can do.
> > >
>
> That is a really wonderful idea! I think this would solve a lot of the
> usability issues and also eliminate a
Jamin W. Collins wrote:
>
> If a window is minimized on one workspace, and the user is on any
> other workspace, clicking on the window in the window list on the
> panel does nothing other than flash the entry. The use has to be on
> the same workspace the window was minimized on in order to resto
Michael Rooney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
>> But the windows itself could be minimised. Let's explore that. I
>> think it may be too late for Jaunty but I'll see what we can do.
>
> That is a really wonderful idea! I think this would solve a lot of the
>
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> But the windows itself could be minimised. Let's explore that. I
> think it may be too late for Jaunty but I'll see what we can do.
>
That is a really wonderful idea! I think this would solve a lot of the
usability issues and also elimin
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> I see your point, but we all know from years of experience that
> pop-ups and pop-unders are only considered an annoyance by users, and
> that they don't fit for the purpose. That's why most of us were proud
> of the gnome way: to avoid as many pop-ups as possible. This ga
On 27/03/2009 Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> We have good usability information that says that notification areas
> are
> swamps. They are swamps on Windows, and swamps in all the Linux
> distributions.
Dear Mark,
I see your point, but we all know from years of experience that pop-ups
and pop-under
Op vrijdag 27-03-2009 om 19:29 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Mark
Shuttleworth:
> Back to the notification area. If we're going to clean up the panel and
> the notification area, we should start with the system pieces. Those
> include the restart-required icon, and the updates-available icon. So
>
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 20:26 +, Iain Lane wrote:
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> No, they pop in the background, unfocused. I personally don't think this
> is the right behaviour either, but at least it's not disruptive in that
> way. Nobody would be insane enough to try that ;)
So hidden under all of the other windows t
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 20:13 +, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 19:29 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > Nothing like a healthy debate.
>
> Indeed. So let's kick it off with where we stand right now and that's
> (afaik, correct me if I'm wrong) no notification icon anymore and
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Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 19:29 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>> Nothing like a healthy debate.
>
> Indeed. So let's kick it off with where we stand right now and that's
> (afaik, correct me if I'm wrong) no notification icon
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 19:29 +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Nothing like a healthy debate.
Indeed. So let's kick it off with where we stand right now and that's
(afaik, correct me if I'm wrong) no notification icon anymore and an
update-manager window that pops up once-a-week (in absence of cri
Will there be any words on this?
It's bad enough that this feature was practically not covered anywhere
public but the UDS (personally I did not sit and listen to every uds session
or read every transcript, I'd expect something important to show up in a
publicly visible space like planet ubuntu or
Well,
"the obvious solution, that is, put a button into the popup notification,
would not work well."
The new notifications are designed to be non-clickable. Again, design
decision. When you hover your mouse over them, they dissapear / fade out to
reveal the content below and clicks go through.
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 23:06 +, Steve Jackson wrote:
> I echo what riban said. I'm likely to just disable the update-notifier
> altogether rather than risk having ugly pop-unders (and maybe pop-overs
> by mistake) happening in the middle of a presentation. Losing the
> existing 'gentle' mechanis
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 22:35 +, Jan Claeys wrote:
> According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance "Wishlist" should
> be used for "a request to add a new feature to one of the programs in
> Ubuntu".
>
> This bug is about a regression, not about a new feature.
I absolutely agree that thi
2009/2/24 Noel J. Bergman :
> Actually, I'm still trying to find anyone who likes the
> change.
You now found one. I like it. It's _unfinished_ and buggy (I have
reported a couple of bugs to help in that regard), but I like the
concept and look forward to it being finished and polished.
I realis
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