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Re: [Ayatana] Idea for improving visibility of running applications



How we do that? I've never done this before :)

2011/5/3 Toki Tahmid <oxwivi@xxxxxxxxx>
I second Evan's opinion. I hope we can somehow register a feature-request bug.


On 3 May 2011 16:33, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can't speak for anyone else, but I quite like the look of it.

Regarding images, you did the right thing. Sending it as an attachment
is slow since the mail server has to copy the file to every single
person on the list. Uploading it elsewhere and providing a link is
best.

Cheers,
Evan

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist
<niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here I have the finished mockup of how this configurable feature could
> work. For the future, what is the best way to share images with the
> ayatana mailing list? Is it by attaching the image to the email or
> upload it like I've done now?
>
> Here is the link:
> http://i.imgur.com/bnIAE.png
>
> 2011/5/3 Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Yeah me too, I will get working on a mockup tomorrow so that it's easier to
>> imagining the end result!
>>
>> On 03/05/11 01:11, Evan Huus wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
>>> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well what about making it toggle on the cursor hovering the launcher? And
>>>> maybe resaturate (maybe partially) the current hovered item?
>>>
>>> So it's saturated normally, but when the mouse moves over it only
>>> running programs (and maybe the hovered launcher) remain saturated? I
>>> like the sound of that. My only worry is that new users will think
>>> they shouldn't interact with it since it desaturates when you mouse
>>> over.
>>>
>>> Still, I would be interested in playing with a mockup of that for a
>>> while and seeing how well it works in reality.
>>>
>>> Evan
>>>
>>>> On 02/05/11 23:57, Evan Huus wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
>>>>> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just read Bartosz mail about that the running applications aren't
>>>>>> always
>>>>>> so easy to see and got an idea. Some icon sets, like Faenza which I
>>>>>> use,
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> very colorful and since the icons are squared they almost fill the
>>>>>> whole
>>>>>> icon place holder so that the illuminated background isn't helping very
>>>>>> much. Therefore for the next iteration of Unity it would be nice to
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> option to desaturate (grey-out) applications which aren't running. So
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> the toggle function illuminates the background and makes it easy to
>>>>>> spot
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> coloured applications instead in midst of the grey ones.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are your thoughts on that?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure that would work very well: the default launcher would end
>>>>> up this ugly grey strip since no programs are run when you first log
>>>>> on. As an user-selected option it might be ok though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Evan
>>>>
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