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[David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Frederik Nnaji
<frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 14:26, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> For designing indicators, ask yourself:
>>
>>  - what is the *status* I am conveying, and
>>  - what options are there to manipulate that status?
>>
>> If you don't have both, especially the status, don't use an indicator.
>> Use a menu.
>
> this hammers down heavier than a 30page spec.
> Thanks for the clarification once again, SABDFL ;)
>
>> In this case, what you are describing is really just part of the File
>> menu. So leave it there.
>
> To be precise, Send-to, as David Siegel would probably say, please be
> unforgiving if am i completely wrong David?! ;)
> We mentioned open-with in connection with GNOME Do (ingenious) and FAYT
> already...
>
> I'd like me a FAYT Send-to.. dialog in Nautilus' right-click menu. Copy-to
> and Move-to don't consistenly offer all Places yet, which is also a shame..
> i see only Home and Desktop..
> How about moving a file to another person? Why does it always have to be IP,
> URI, folder or host?

Sounds interesting :)

It would be good to discuss how we could incorporate a "protocol
independent contact list" into Unity, using the same interactions
expressed i the Applications and Files places.

David

>
> with a proper FAYT integration in Send-to, we could also integrate Folks
> [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks], a protocol independent
> contact list.
>
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