[00:21] <OmegaYear> Could anyone tell me a little more about the tiling-like features that might get implemented in unity? I asked about tiling a long while ago, and pointed to bluetile as an example hybrid approach.
[00:52] <nnnaji> OmegaYear, are you still here?
[00:54] <OmegaYear> I am nnnaji.
[00:54] <nnnaji> hi ;)
[00:54] <nnnaji> i can hear the german accent in the video..
[00:55] <nnnaji> Jan Vornberger
[00:55] <nnnaji> great screencast on bluetile.org
[00:55] <nnnaji> have you meantioned this on Ayatana ML already?
[00:55] <OmegaYear> No, I haven't.
[00:55] <OmegaYear> Just in here.
[00:55] <nnnaji> i think it deserves being mentioned
[00:56] <nnnaji> i've been advocating snapping to grid for example, quantized resizing etc..
[00:56] <nnnaji> people responded, saying that the new tiling features of W7 were a reason to upgrade from vista
[00:57] <nnnaji> thank's a lot for bringing this up, i'm very appreciative of the hint!
[00:58] <nnnaji> OmegaYear, are you familiar with compiz grid plugin?
[00:59] <OmegaYear> I am not.
[00:59] <OmegaYear> Also, no problem!
[01:00] <OmegaYear> bluetile is a little rough around the edges but, it works well.
[01:01] <nnnaji> i'm fetching it just now..
[01:06] <nnnaji> OmegaYear, wow.. was a little bit of a bumpy ride on here natty
[01:07] <nnnaji> the concept is inspiring, if you have the time, i'd love to see your thread on Ayatana ML
[01:19] <Amaranth> nnnaji: as far as tiling goes I think maximumize does that in compiz
[01:35] <nnnaji> thx Amaranth, how do get that running in Natty?
[01:38] <nnnaji> Amaranth, never mind, i installed compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
[01:38] <nnnaji> it's there now
[01:39] <Amaranth> nnnaji: I misunderstood what the plugin does, actually
[01:40] <nnnaji> Amaranth, you were close, though, it's the right direction
[01:40] <nnnaji> i'm checking the possibilities now..
[01:41] <nnnaji> Amaranth, maximumize should be default behaviour, instead of maximize, imo
[01:41] <Amaranth> *shudder*
[01:42] <nnnaji> haaaaah
[01:42] <Amaranth> nnnaji: Dunno if you noticed but unity is kind of geared around you maximizing windows
[01:42] <nnnaji> yeah
[01:42] <nnnaji> UNR tried that with maximus
[01:42] <nnnaji> that was not a solution of scale
[01:43] <nnnaji> Amaranth, i'm just investigating possibilities
[01:43] <nnnaji> since Nautilus brought back the second pane, i got into thinking
[01:46] <Amaranth> nnnaji: brought back? when was it missing?
[01:47] <nnnaji> Amaranth, so the most part of what i wanted is handled by Compiz grid
[01:47] <nnnaji> Amaranth, yeah, Nautilus didn't have a second pane for years IIRC, it was brought back last year or so..
[01:47] <Amaranth> err, you mean the sidebar?
[01:47] <Amaranth> afaik it's had that forever
[01:47] <nnnaji> nah
[01:48] <nnnaji> F3 in Nautils
[01:48] <nnnaji> "Extra pane"
[01:48] <Amaranth> oh, that
[01:48] <nnnaji> F9 is also cool, but that is something else
[01:48] <Amaranth> afaik it _never_ had that before :)
[01:48] <nnnaji> ok.. then i'm mistaken about that..
[01:48] <nnnaji> mc had it
[01:50] <nnnaji> wow..
[01:50] <nnnaji> Amaranth, OmegaYear
[01:51] <nnnaji> with your help i found what i was looking for ..
[01:51] <Amaranth> ?
[01:51] <nnnaji> compiz grid does the trick
[01:51] <nnnaji> it just needs some discoverability tweaking
[01:51] <nnnaji> like most of compiz
[01:52] <nnnaji> and together with maximumize's functionality, it does the most exciting part of what OmegaYear 's "bluetile" can do
[01:54] <nnnaji> i think having an application on the left and one on the right is great for drag and drop stuff, e.g. dragging photos into an email or comparing documents
[01:55] <nnnaji> especially now when everybody has widescreen displays
[01:59] <OmegaYear> I just want to point out that I'm not the author of bluetile, to avoid future confusion/
[02:01] <nnnaji> OmegaYear, all safe, i don't think there would have been ;) i love the ideas, and i'd love even more to see them implemented in compiz
[13:41] <AnAnt> Hello, anyone tried indicator-datetime ?
[16:28] <sl33k_> I have 10.04 in my usb that i require my computer to boot with, can I add unity usb key to it?
[16:39] <nnnaji> sl33k_ what do you mean with "add usb key to it"?
[16:41] <sl33k_> will the other booting ubuntu will get affected by unity?
[16:49] <nnnaji> you can insert flash memory as usual of course..
[16:52] <nnnaji> sl33k_ just try it out and see what happens
[16:52] <sl33k_> ok
[16:53] <nnnaji> perhaps insert the unity stick only when the computer is all started up already