unity-design team mailing list archive

[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicely done. I like it. If someone can add a "feature request bug
report", I'd mark myself as being affected.

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

On 05/03/2011 08:13 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist 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
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana
>>>> Post to     : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana
>>>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>>>>
>>
>>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana
> Post to     : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature