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Re: Idea for improving visibility of running applications

 

This is probably the best way

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+filebug

Attach the screenshot to the bug report.

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

On 05/03/2011 10:08 AM, Niklas Rosenqvist wrote:
> How would I do that? I've never done that before :)
> 
> 2011/5/3 James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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