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mac_vDanRabbit1: ping09:52
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SiDitedg, hello14:10
tedgSiDi: Howdy14:10
SiDiFine, you ?14:11
SiDitedg, Do you know if there is still someone planning to separate libindicate and indicator-applet ? :D14:12
tedgSiDi: Doing well.  It's done :)14:12
SiDiAaaaaw14:12
SiDiWhere can i catch the lib please ? :)14:13
SiDi(lp:libindicate, found it !)14:13
SiDitedg, many thanks for having done it :]14:13
DBOhey MacSlow, sorry about the empty diff14:14
DBOmy push failed14:14
DBOfixed now :)14:14
MacSlowDBO, np14:14
tedgSiDi: No problem.14:15
tedgSiDi: There should be new split source packages hitting Karmic... I think they hit yesterday.14:16
tedgkenvandine: ^^ The separate libindicate source package is in now, right?14:16
SiDitedg, great !14:17
SiDinow i have to make sure indicator-applet-xfce builds and find someone to package it :P14:17
kenvandinetedg, yes14:18
SiDi!info libindicate karmic14:18
ubot4SiDi: Package libindicate does not exist in karmic14:18
SiDi!info libindicate1 karmic14:18
ubot4SiDi: libindicate1 (source: indicator-applet): GNOME panel indicator applet - shared library. In component main, is optional. Version 0.1.6-0ubuntu1 (karmic), package size 21 kB, installed size 108 kB14:18
kenvandinelibindicate2 is the binary14:18
SiDiah14:19
kenvandinelibindicate | 0.2.0~bzr325-0ubuntu1 |        karmic | source14:19
SiDi libindicate2 (source: indicator-applet) from ubot4 14:19
SiDibrb, rebooting the router14:20
mac_vtedg: hi... the i-a-sus , is showing icon-missing as the icon? is that a known bug?14:20
tedgmac_v: Yes.  It's patched upstream :)14:21
mac_vhmm... nice thanx.14:22
DanRabbit1mac_v: pong14:32
mac_vDanRabbit1: lol... got up early ? ;) just a sec14:33
DanRabbit1Yea, I have school in an hour :(14:33
mac_vDanRabbit1: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1325768/1.svg , http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1325768/2.svg   which do you like better?14:35
DanRabbit1Thinner stroke :D14:35
mac_vDanRabbit1: yeah , me too , just confirming how you wanted it ;)14:36
DanRabbit1thanks 14:36
mac_v :)14:36
SiDi`Laptop!info libpango1.0-0 karmic14:47
ubot4SiDi`Laptop: libpango1.0-0 (source: pango1.0): Layout and rendering of internationalized text. In component main, is optional. Version 1.25.3-0ubuntu1 (karmic), package size 312 kB, installed size 924 kB14:47
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MacSlowDBO, eeejay would be the best to review the atk-patches... I don't know ATK at all and can only look for "coding-style" stuff or general things like translatable strings.15:31
DBOyeah translatable strings is what I always forget15:31
DBOevery15:31
DBOsingle15:31
DBOtime15:31
DBObut yeah, how do we get an eeejay involved?15:32
MacSlowI've been looking for him on IRC, but he does not seem to be online15:32
DBOMacSlow, translatable string issue is fixed =)15:50
DBOsorry for the delay, was working on maximus15:50
DBOperhaps we should request a direct review from eeejay15:51
SiDiDamn pkg-config15:58
SiDitedg, kenvandine if i wanted to check for the presence of libindicate in autotools, any idea what package name i should give to pkg-config ? :S15:59
tedgSiDi: indicate15:59
tedgSiDi: Usually it's the file name in /usr/lib/pkgconfig -- typically I'll just do an "ls" there to look for things.15:59
SiDithanks tedg :D16:02
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MacSlowDBO, would be cool, but does LP's merge-proposal interface/UI allow that? I don't know.17:18
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mac_vmpt: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1325768/new1.png , if you like the color i can complete the whole animation17:57
mptmac_v, nice!17:59
mptmac_v, I think you might find that if you animate it, it's like spinning an egg, because it's a bit oval17:59
mptso you'd need to trim a bit off the arrow tails to make it circular, I guess18:00
mac_vmpt: nope the arrow head is causing the illusion , I'v taken care of the circle ;)18:00
mac_vmpt: oh! oops! i gave the link to the wrong image > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1325768/new.png18:03
mptah, much better18:04
mac_vmpt: hehe , you are right about the first one though ;) 18:04
mptmac_v, so I'm happy to go through as many iterations of this as you like until you get bored. ;-) It probably should be a bit less yellow18:06
mptIf you'd rather leave it as it is, please attach it to a software-store bug report18:07
mac_vmpt: yeah, the color was my concern too , i'll try a different shade18:07
mac_vmpt: bug report or wiki?18:07
mptmac_v, ah, wiki works too18:08
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djsiegelmrooney|w mac_v, next week is Ubuntu Developer Week18:53
djsiegelwill you be around?18:53
mrooney|wyes I think so18:53
mac_vyup18:53
djsiegelOk, I have the week off and may be out of reach, but there's a paper cutting session thursday18:53
mac_vdjsiegel: BTW wat time is it?18:53
djsiegelI may try to get it moved to weds18:54
djsiegellet me grab the page 1 sec18:54
djsiegelMDC2: ping ^18:54
MDC2djsiegel, pong!18:54
djsiegelmrooney|w mac_v MDC2 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek18:54
djsiegelso, I will be in the session for paper cutting there, would be great if you guys could attend18:55
mrooney|wah ok18:55
djsiegelthe focus of the week is development in ubuntu, and I've asked dholbach to make the remaining 60 paper cuts that need some attention the focus18:55
djsiegelhttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&assignee_option=none&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.bug_supervisor=&field.bug_commenter=&field.subscri18:56
djsiegeleld.milestone%3Alist=13597&field.milestone%3Alist=13644&field.milestone%3Alist=13598&field.milestone%3Alist=13629&field.milestone%3Alist=13630&field.milestone%3Alist=13631&field.milestone%3Alist=13640&field.milestone%3Alist=13641&field.milestone%3Alist=13642&field.milestone%3Alist=13643&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch.used=&field.has_cve.used=&field.tag=&field.tags_combinator=ANY18:56
djsiegelthose (nice url, huh?)18:56
mac_vdjsiegel: the url got cut ;p18:56
djsiegelok 1 sec18:56
djsiegelhttp://tinyurl.com/mbpmob18:57
djsiegelthat's all milestoned paper cuts that aren't yet fixed18:57
djsiegelah, I may cut off In Progress18:57
djsiegelhttp://tinyurl.com/nml6jo18:58
djsiegelso, in all sessions that deal with fixing bugs, /these/ should be the samples/examples that devs are encouraged to focus on18:58
djsiegelI think there were 400 people at the last UDW18:58
djsiegelso, 400 / 60 = almost 7 devs per paper cut remaining18:59
MDC2djsiegel, i'll be working next week but i can probably hang around and poke some code from time to time.. but where is it? ;-) #??18:59
djsiegel#ubuntu-classroom18:59
djsiegelso there will be a lot of activity, and we will need to be there to support it19:00
djsiegelbut like I said, I will be unavailable for most of the week so more fall son you guys if you're avilable19:00
djsiegelthey are normal bugs, so our participation is not required19:00
djsiegelbut it would be good for some of us to be available19:00
djsiegelMan, I am working in a public library, and this family with 8 children, all under 6 years old, is letting them run around screaming like it's a playground19:01
djsiegel(my in-ear noise blocking headphones are out of commission due to a faulty wire)19:02
DBOdjsiegel, any fun papercuts up my ally you know of offhand?19:04
DBOI'd like to be one of the 10019:04
djsiegelDBO, let me see19:04
djsiegelI have been using Safari 4 for a week, and its "awesome bar" is really cruddy19:05
djsiegelit doesn't search your history well19:05
DBOyeah its more of an "okay bar"19:06
DBOalso, did you see my first major code contribution landed in the public yesterday?19:06
MDC2djsiegel, safari - aren't you running linux? ;-)19:06
DBOthe new icons in the window pickers applet =)19:06
djsiegelDBO: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/894919:07
ubot4Launchpad bug 8949 in hundredpapercuts "Opening a deleted 'recent document' results in a new file." [Undecided,Confirmed] 19:07
DBOconsider it done djsiegel ;)19:07
djsiegelMDC2: usually, but I switched to my MBP to get better adobe air performance and increased screen space to work on some mockups19:07
djsiegelDBO: there is a patch there19:07
djsiegelmay be a good starting place19:07
DBOawesome19:07
djsiegelwhen someone shows the recent documents menu, if a recent document is a local file that no longer exists, it should not show up in the menu19:08
djsiegelI think that's a reasonable fix/19:08
djsiegelmaybe the recent documents API should not tell you about deleted files, but that's a deeper change19:08
djsiegelbut if you have a better solution, DBO, by all means19:08
DBOi think this is better handled at the level of the consumer of the recent documents api19:09
djsiegelbut why should the API tell you about recent files that no longer exist?19:10
djsiegelif the user deleted the file, what's the point of telling them about it any longer?19:10
DBObecause drives can be disconnected19:10
DBOlocal drives even19:10
DBOdo it all the time19:10
djsiegelbut you'd still want to see the file?19:10
DBOyes, and if its in a path thats in my /etc/mtab, even offer to try to mount when I attempt to access it19:11
mac_vDBO: what sort of bugs are you interested in? i could find you some :)19:11
djsiegelwho is Ted M Lin/19:11
djsiegelwhat is is nick, rather19:11
djsiegelwe need to find him and ask him to follow up on his paper cuts!19:12
DBOmac_v, I love heavy interface lifting, make me do some cairo. Of course those are rarely paper cuts, so I also would do anything that lets me engineer a solution19:12
djsiegelhe's done at least 5 patches19:12
DBOI like a challenge :)19:12
djsiegelso, we have https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/38585019:12
ubot4Launchpad bug 385850 in hundredpapercuts "Ship fewer screensavers by default" [Low,Confirmed] 19:12
djsiegelit's ready in a branch19:12
djsiegeldo we need to subscribe someone to get this merged?19:13
djsiegelthese are things that should be taken care of next week19:13
djsiegela good number of paper cuts have branches with fixes19:13
djsiegeland they need to be sponsored and merged19:13
mac_vhmm... let me see :)19:14
mac_vDBO: Bug #416624 , a little interface clean up , not too heavy ;)19:17
ubot4Launchpad bug 416624 in hundredpapercuts "Preferred Applications is a little confusing." [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/41662419:17
DBOoooo I wanna do that one19:18
djsiegelthat is not a paper cut19:18
mac_vdjsiegel: you were the one who made DanRabbit1  file it ;)19:19
djsiegelno, it's a good bug19:20
djsiegelbut, I am sure DBO could do it in a day19:20
djsiegelDBO, let me know if you tackle it and we can count it19:20
mac_v good bug, but not a (good) paper cut ? ;p19:20
djsiegelwe can schedule it in a round and remove another19:20
DBOdjsiegel, roger, girlfriend is in chicago tonight, so I might just sit down and do some binge coding19:20
djsiegelnice19:21
djsiegelDanRabbit1 filed another good one, let me find19:21
mac_vDBO: then i'll find you some more ;p19:21
djsiegelDBO, will you apply for membership in papercutters so you can change statuses and milestones?19:21
djsiegelI will approve you19:21
DBOsure19:21
DBOdone19:22
MDC2about bug 416624, when entering a custom command; could there be a legend describing what "%s" is?19:27
ubot4Launchpad bug 416624 in hundredpapercuts "Preferred Applications is a little confusing." [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/41662419:27
DBOMDC2, it should give an example19:29
DBOlike if you type foo --file=%s19:29
DBOit would say "e.g. : foo --file=bar.txt"19:29
MDC2is %s the only one availble?19:30
DBOi dont think so19:30
DBOmaybe?19:30
MDC2so.. it might be good to show what special commands are available?19:31
DBOmaybe19:31
MDC2and i think that %s here refers to an url...19:34
DBOerm yes it would in this case19:34
MDC2see - if not even I know what %s is.. how will the "user" know ;-)19:35
DBOneural lace?19:36
djsiegelMDC2: yes, that's one of the drivers behind a separate dialog19:37
djsiegelthere's room for info about those keys19:37
djsiegelbut for the paper cut, it's not necessary to add new information like that19:37
djsiegelI wish we had OS X style sheets19:37
djsiegelinstead of using a modal dialog for this19:37
DBOsheets are more or less well positioned modal dialogs19:38
djsiegelMDC2: those symbols are explained in the docs for XDG .desktop files spec I believe19:38
djsiegelDBO, right, but they are attached to the parent window have have no decoration19:38
DBOright, well positioned windows19:38
DBOmodal windows with flare!19:38
djsiegelMDC2 and in the docs for g_desktop_file_open or something19:38
DBOhell I bet I could write a 100 line app to turn all modal windows into OS X style sheets19:39
djsiegelDBO do it, would be a sweet patch to gtk19:39
MDC2djsiegel, oh.. it surly should be visible in the gui :-)19:39
DBOyou dont need to patch GTK19:39
djsiegelyou don;t need to19:39
djsiegelbut it would be nice to make it an explicit new dialog class19:39
MDC2dbo, if we do it - it should be in gtk19:39
MDC2i heard we had sheets in gtk / cocoa (?) now..19:40
djsiegelI mean, you could try sheetifying modal dialogs w/ parent windows19:40
djsiegelbut that could get funky19:40
djsiegelthose modal dialogs could have modal dialogs :)19:40
djsiegelor open other things19:40
DBOdont sheetify a modal dialog to a modal dialog19:41
djsiegelDBO here's a bug in the same vein as the recent docs: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1906919:41
DBOor a model dialog above a certain size19:41
ubot4Launchpad bug 19069 in hundredpapercuts "Nautilus browser's pathbar displays non-existent folders" [Low,Confirmed] 19:41
djsiegelhas a patch, upstream is on it19:41
djsiegeljust fyi19:41
djsiegelwouldn't hurt to ping cosimo19:41
DBOwhat am I supposed to do in that kind of case19:41
DBOIm a coder, not a packager19:41
djsiegeljust say "hey cosimo, you have the patch you said you were polishing?"19:42
djsiegelhe might say "oh yeah, forgot, let me merge"19:42
djsiegelor "no, here's what I've got, can you finish and ping me back and I will merge?"19:42
djsiegelthat's basically what I do on these when they have a patch and stop moving19:42
djsiegel"hey, upstream, umm, about that patch you reviewed and said looked good to merge..."19:42
djsiegel"think we can merge it before 2010?"19:43
DBOpatching gtk to have a sheet modal window would take 100 lines of code including boiler plate code me thinks :)19:43
djsiegelLike 2-line diff against gnome-panel hanging around bugzilla since 2002(?)19:43
mac_vdjsiegel: you need to send mail upstream about > Bug #388949 , 19:43
ubot4Launchpad bug 388949 in hundredpapercuts "'Clean Up by Name' -> 'Arrange by Name'" [Undecided,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/38894919:43
djsiegelthat solves ordering problems when changing resolution19:43
djsiegelwe had 44 dupes of that bug in LP19:43
mac_vi mena the nautilus mailing list 19:43
MDC2about the pathbar patch; i think it needs some polish first..19:43
djsiegelturns out the 7 year old patch worked like a charm19:43
MDC2its got #if 0 in it....19:44
djsiegelmac_v, yeah19:44
DBOwell at least I no longer wonder what you do with your day djsiegel :P19:45
djsiegelha19:46
djsiegelI have been doing other things19:46
djsiegelhaven't one PPCs in a good week19:46
djsiegelI think there's a chance we will get a good 75 of these done19:46
djsiegelI think 45 are done now19:47
DBOim a bit surprised at how much trouble it is to get working code upstream19:47
djsiegelhopefully the 400 devs here for UDW will descend like angels next week19:47
DBOUDW is a physical event?19:47
djsiegelDBO, yeah...19:47
djsiegelnot many people are home, it seems19:47
djsiegelyou knock on the door with a fruit basket...19:48
djsiegeland nobody opens19:48
DBOwell if Verizon Wireless and TV taught me anything it's this19:48
DBOyou dont get them to open the door unless you have Catherine Zeta Jones do the knocking19:48
djsiegel__DBO: you might be on to something there19:50
DBOC Zeta Jones is a win19:50
djsiegel__DBO: are you up for some major invasive plastic surgery?19:50
DBOonly if I get a weekend to fondle my new C Zeta Jones body19:51
DBOit would be nice of XDG specified a Soft Window Strut19:52
DBOsimilar to our current struts19:52
DBObut not enforced as dramatically19:52
DBOperfect for things like autohide panels19:52
DBOor sidebars19:52
mac_vDBO: wanna add support for thunderbird and messaging menu? ;)19:53
DBOthe what?19:53
mac_vindicator applet19:53
DBOmessaging menu?19:53
DBOi dont have karmic19:53
mac_vDBO: i thought it behaves the same in Jaunty ... does it show the icon always? or virtual box ;p19:54
DBOit behaves the same but its 10 times more worthless19:55
DBOsince nothing uses it19:55
DBOI dont even really understand what its there for19:55
DBOall I know is I can click on it, and then sometimes it will have a buddy's screen name listed, and if I click on that the window starts blinking in my task list19:55
mac_vlol , its worthless here too , awaiting some development , its supposed to be a launcher + indicator19:55
DBOor more usually, I click it and nothing happens because the window was already blinking19:56
DBOall I know is SOMEBODY forgot to run wnck_set_client_type (WNCK_CLIENT_TYPE_PAGER)19:57
DBOthen it would actually be useful...19:57
DBOletting me switch desktops and so on...19:57
mac_vhm.. in karmic it switches windows and desktops when the app is selected. or maybe i set it as such 19:58
DBOoh then they fixed it :P20:01
mac_vDBO: are you familiar with gvfs and nautilus code?20:01
DBOfamiliar no, able to dive in and understand yes20:02
DBOwell I am familiar with coding gvfs stuff20:02
mac_vBug #301035 , this bug needs a bit of tweek in both20:02
ubot4Launchpad bug 301035 in hundredpapercuts "Place an Ubuntu icon/emblem on the system partition" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/30103520:02
mac_vtweak*20:02
mac_vsee my comment #20 , icons stuff can be done but the code needs to be in place20:04
DBOlooking20:05
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DBOso really you want a patch to gvfs to detect if a filesystem (or rather any file) resides on a particular type of filesystem...20:08
DBOmm I am thinking we dont even need to patch gvfs to get that info20:08
DBOmaybe not with gvfs however20:09
DBOI dont know, we'll see20:09
mac_vDBO: yeah , basically it already know the filesystem type, windows are usually ntfs/fat , so assign the window icon, apple assign apple icon , for the filesystem , we assign the Ubuntu icon, just the signla need to be sent20:10
mac_vknows*20:10
DBOyep20:11
DBOyeah gio is still pretty rapidly changing20:12
DBOshouldn't be too hard to get an upstream change on this one20:12
djsiegelmac_v can you show me a screenshot of the new behavior for this: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/407116 ?20:13
ubot4Launchpad bug 407116 in hundredpapercuts "The thumbnail of an image should not be bigger than the image itself" [Low,Fix released] 20:13
djsiegelif it's a real improvement, I will milestone it20:13
djsiegelotherwise, I want to mark-affects nautilus and invalidate the paper cut20:14
mac_vdjsiegel: http://imagebin.ca/view/AM7wvFi.html , notice the 48px and the 128px20:19
djsiegeleww, wish those were at least centered20:20
djsiegelthat just looks terrible still!20:21
mac_vdjsiegel: centered? i think they are20:21
djsiegelvertically ?20:21
mac_vyeah20:21
djsiegelthere's no grid there20:21
mac_voh grid , no grid20:21
djsiegelhmmm20:22
djsiegelis that the default layout behavior in karmic?20:22
mac_vdjsiegel: its anything larger than 96px is shown at 96 px and anything smaller is at its own size20:22
djsiegelit all flows together like that?20:22
djsiegelok, I suppose we can count it20:22
djsiegelbut what if I have a 1px square png ?20:23
djsiegelis the icon a 1px square ?!20:23
djsiegelin that case, it's a regression20:23
mac_vpreviously it used to scale , everything up to or down to 96px20:23
djsiegelright20:23
djsiegelI understand20:23
djsiegelI think this change is not necessarily an improvement20:23
mac_vi dont think there can be a 1px icon ;p20:23
mac_vbut yeah feels a bit inconsistent20:24
mac_vpersonally , i liked how it was before all shown at 96 px20:24
mac_vdjsiegel: i think it has a grid... just dont know how to describe it , the default size of the folder icons icons is used , and the thumbnails is used centered in that , if bigger it is shown bigger... does that make sense to you ?20:33
mac_vthe thumbnails are centered in that folder icon grid20:33
djsiegelNautilus needs all of it's layout stuff redone20:33
djsiegelon the desktop window, and in normal windows20:34
djsiegelicons should not have drastically different dimentions20:34
mac_vdjsiegel: the desktop has changed too , 20:34
djsiegelhow so?20:34
mac_vdjsiegel: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/388418/comments/720:35
ubot4Launchpad bug 388418 in nautilus "Smaller icons on the desktop compared to the Nautilus window" [Undecided,Invalid] 20:35
DanRabbit1Nautilus fork, ftw20:35
djsiegelDBO:  you might have fun with this one too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/1649220:35
DanRabbit1who's with me?20:35
ubot4Launchpad bug 16492 in hundredpapercuts "Mouse pointer should disappear when keyboard is in use and mouse isn't" [Undecided,Confirmed] 20:35
DBOdjsiegel, you know the active window indicator on docky?20:36
mac_vi would not say disappear would be better, but rather semi transparent would be nicer , if possible , usually while typing sometimes we might check for the pointer20:36
djsiegelyup20:36
DBOok, now that you have that in mind20:37
DBOpicture in your head the window picker applet20:37
DBOremove the button like background of the icons in there20:37
DBO(since we got rid of them)20:37
DBOand make the icons full panel size20:37
djsiegelDBO and it looks like the Win7 taskbar?20:38
djsiegel:)20:38
DBOactive window is full opacity20:38
djsiegelhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/387467/comments/7 is maybe one of my best comments ever20:38
djsiegellol20:38
ubot4Launchpad bug 387467 in totem "obtuse error when ejecting a playing DVD" [Low,Confirmed] 20:38
DBOinactive windows are 55%20:38
DBOhowever this is too subtle20:38
djsiegelDBO, yeah, alpha does not work will with current gnome-panel20:38
DBOno I have the alpha bit working fine20:39
DBOits a matter of you just cant easily tell whats active/not20:39
djsiegelhmm20:39
DBOI could really use a chat with those guys who were at UDS20:39
DBOyour teammates20:39
djsiegelDBO: related to the recent docs paper cut: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41573720:43
ubot4Launchpad bug 415737 in hundredpapercuts "Listings in Recent Documents should be dimmed when no longer available" [Undecided,New] 20:43
djsiegelyou might want to choose between them20:43
djsiegelDBO, what's up? need some help designing a dialog?20:43
djsiegelI've really boned up on that skill in the past month or two :)20:43
djsiegelI must do 1 a day20:43
djsiegelI take my morning vitamin, then design my daily dialoh20:44
djsiegelg20:44
DBOno I just need ideas on how to indicate the active window in such a small space20:44
DBOand we cant rely on a simple background because sometimes the icon pretty much consumes the whole damned area20:45
DBOunless we add left/right padding20:45
DBOwhich we can do20:45
djsiegelhmm? I am not entirely clear on the concent20:45
djsiegelconcept20:45
djsiegeldo you have a mockup?20:46
DBOyou have a 24x200 area20:46
DBOon it lay a bunch of 24x24 icons20:46
DBOrepresenting all the windows on your desktop20:46
DBOlets say there are 5 of them20:46
DBOindicate the one which is active20:46
DBOyou may, if desired, resize the icons to be smaller20:48
DBOor apply any other transform to them I can figure out how to do in cairo20:48
DBOdjsiegel?20:59
djsiegelDBO : hayoo20:59
djsiegelI would "bold" the active one20:59
djsiegelis there a label?20:59
DBOnope20:59
DBOjust icons21:00
djsiegelhmm21:00
djsiegeldrop shadow21:00
DBOyou know... the window picker applet from UNR...21:00
DBOits on a black background21:00
djsiegelah21:00
djsiegelI am unfamiliar21:00
DBOcurrently I am trying out making innactive windows 90% the size of active windows and 55% opacity21:00
DBOthis makes it obvious to me21:00
DBObut part of the reason for this work was to make it possible to use 100% of the bar size for icons21:01
DBOthis is actually quite a hard problem for me...21:03
djsiegelDBO, I will look when I have some time later21:04
djsiegelI need lunch21:04
DBOalrighty21:04
djsiegelmy mom just called me for help with voicemail on the iphone21:06
djsiegelshe simply doesn't understand the Visual Voicemail feature21:06
djsiegel"I see a list of the people who left me voicemail, but how do I call to get my voicemails? Do I press #33?"21:07
djsiegel"Mom, those /are/ the voicemails"21:07
djsiegel"Press play"21:07
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