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ais523so, I've started patching Unity locally, because it does most of what I want but there are several rough edges16:45
ais523what's the best way to see if what I'm doing would be accepted, or if it would go against the vision of what other people want?16:46
popeyais523: email the unity-design mailing list with links to screenshots/videos/branches/mockups16:49
ais523also, the link to the mailing list is a broken link (both the link here in IRC and the link from the online documentation); I'd probably ask there if I could find it16:49
ais523popey: ah, OK, that sounds like a good idea16:49
ais523makes sense to get design approval even if I'm implementing it myself16:49
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mario_anyone using unity with 3 monitors?  do you have 3D working?22:20
ais523fwiw, here's my big plan for Unity: https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg09410.html22:54
ais523I have a few small ones too, but want feedback on the big one first22:54
JanCais523: I guess applications might have to grow the ability to let you drag a tab/document to the launcher to create a new launcher item23:55
ais523JanC: dragging is one possibility for a UI23:56
JanCso this would require cooperation by the application23:56
ais523I was thinking more along the lines of right-clicking and just pinning the file open in a window at the moment to the launcher23:56
ais523it's likely to require application cooperation no matter what23:56
ais523but there's quite a bit of cooperation already, so it doesn't seem like an impossible goal23:56
JanCthat's theoretically possible now, I think?  ;)23:57
ais523nope, you can only pin an application, not a file23:57
ais523however you /can/ create a .desktop file that refers to an application/file combination, and pin that23:57
JanCyou can drag from the dash to the launcher23:57
ais523hmm, let me try that23:57
JanCof course, applications in the dash have a .desktop file already23:58
ais523nope, with a file it just highlights Nautilus, as the only application I've got pinned capable of opening it23:58
JanCright, but that's just a matter of how you drag'n'drop23:58
ais523so basically what this would be doing is simply a) creating the .desktop file automatically when necessary rather than making the user do it, b) grouping windows under the .desktop file that best describes them, not the .desktop file for the application they belong to (BAMF tries to do this already, but doesn't have support for it at the file level)23:59
ais523and putting a nice UI on it all23:59

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