Hi again,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:36:42 -0600
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:11:07 +0100
Martin Sourada <martin.sourada(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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For whatever it's worth, I think I prefer your "B" outline.
However, I don't feel super strongly about it. :)
> 1. single panel layout, containing all the widgets we agreed upon as
> must have, designed from ground for best usability, proposal for
> that is Layout A on [1]
> 2. two panel layout, containing all the widgets we agreed upon,
> designed from ground for best usability, proposal for that is
> Layout B on [1]
> 3. Adopt the former Gnome 2 default two panel layout.
I would say B is the best bet here, although some folks might call it
too busy. ;(
I've prepared initial patch to implement the B layout, see [1] and [2].
The issues we IMHO still need to address in addition to that are:
* Applications Menu text is long and probably fixed WRT locale, I'm
more concerned about the localization though, probably worth
asking upstream to implement it.
* Places menu is showing file manager icon which is misleading, text
would be better, I have the same concerns about localization as with
applications menu
* Task list could use flat buttons?
* Clock:
- I've switched to orage because it lets me use locale's
representation of time and date (currently it uses locale's
representation of time)
- I propose to change the format to either "%c" (longer but probably
more "correct") or "%x %X" (shorter) some examples:
* $ LANG=en_US.utf-8 date +"%c"
Wed 01 Jun 2011 11:32:18 AM CEST
* $ LANG=en_GB.utf-8 date +"%c"
Wed 01 Jun 2011 11:32:14 CEST
* $ LANG=cs_CZ.utf-8 date +"%c"
St 1. červen 2011, 11:32:59 CEST
* $ LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 date +"%c"
2011年06月01日 11時31分43秒
* $ LANG=en_US.utf-8 date +"%x %X"
06/01/2011 11:34:02 AM
* $ LANG=en_GB.utf-8 date +"%x %X"
01/06/11 11:34:09
* $ LANG=cs_CZ.utf-8 date +"%x %X"
1.6.2011 11:34:14
* $ LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 date +"%x %X"
2011年06月01日 11時34分18秒
- of course we can feed those to the other two date / time applets as
well but orage also offers calendar (with tasks support)
- we should drop the frame
And on a little different note -- someone should do something about
ibus: it's using a symbolic icon (and it seems that can be
overridden only during build) which works absolutely awful on gtk2
based panel(s).
Comments welcome,
Martin