[16:45] <ais523> so, I've started patching Unity locally, because it does most of what I want but there are several rough edges
[16:46] <ais523> what'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?
[16:49] <popey> ais523: email the unity-design mailing list with links to screenshots/videos/branches/mockups
[16:49] <ais523> also, 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 it
[16:49] <ais523> popey: ah, OK, that sounds like a good idea
[16:49] <ais523> makes sense to get design approval even if I'm implementing it myself
[22:20] <mario_> anyone using unity with 3 monitors?  do you have 3D working?
[22:54] <ais523> fwiw, here's my big plan for Unity: https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg09410.html
[22:54] <ais523> I have a few small ones too, but want feedback on the big one first
[23:55] <JanC> ais523: I guess applications might have to grow the ability to let you drag a tab/document to the launcher to create a new launcher item
[23:56] <ais523> JanC: dragging is one possibility for a UI
[23:56] <JanC> so this would require cooperation by the application
[23:56] <ais523> I was thinking more along the lines of right-clicking and just pinning the file open in a window at the moment to the launcher
[23:56] <ais523> it's likely to require application cooperation no matter what
[23:56] <ais523> but there's quite a bit of cooperation already, so it doesn't seem like an impossible goal
[23:57] <JanC> that's theoretically possible now, I think?  ;)
[23:57] <ais523> nope, you can only pin an application, not a file
[23:57] <ais523> however you /can/ create a .desktop file that refers to an application/file combination, and pin that
[23:57] <JanC> you can drag from the dash to the launcher
[23:57] <ais523> hmm, let me try that
[23:58] <JanC> of course, applications in the dash have a .desktop file already
[23:58] <ais523> nope, with a file it just highlights Nautilus, as the only application I've got pinned capable of opening it
[23:58] <JanC> right, but that's just a matter of how you drag'n'drop
[23:59] <ais523> so 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] <ais523> and putting a nice UI on it all