[ubuntu-art] next meeting

[Cory K.]

Please split this of to a different thread. This has gone WAY off topic.

-Cory


Jan Niklas Hasse wrote:
>
>     Anyway, instead of showing me the real names of the apps, do you
>     have any _solid_ opinion or any critic point to my idea?
>
>
> Your idea is that applications are still running when i close their
> window? And that they will appear in an app selector? Well, the idea
> is not bad, but the tray does this already. When i close my app i can
> reopen it by clicking the tray icon. My critic point is: Instead of
> developing an app selector, we should drop the idea of the tray as a
> notification area and improve it instead.
>  
>
>     I mean, music apps go to "tray" in Linux... and what? I was saying
>     that in my opinion this is not the right place to keep open apps.
>
>
> Why? I think it's a good place because a small icon doesn't take much
> place and i can perform actions like changing settings in the context
> menu of the icon.
>  
>
>     Could you please stop and think my ideas for a while instead of
>     pointing me some names or responding some phrases without reading
>     the next ones (I said that we can take good things from other
>     gui's like Windows' shell just before I pointed that Ubuntu should
>     not be a _copy_ of Windows/OS X)?
>
>
> Well i think the tray is one of the good thinks of Windows.
>  
>
>     And, I haven't said that we should remove windows, so that was
>     completely off-topic.
>
>
> That should just be an example.
>  
>
>     I don't want to spend my time developing my ideas and trying to
>     explain them in this mailing list just for receiving some words
>     like "I call it tray.".
>
>
> I'm sorry if that offended you, i didn't mean to.
>  
>
>     Again, can you re-think my idea and criticize some of them instead
>     saying "that is called x on linux..."
>
>
> I never said that.
>  
>
>     "so what?" etc.?
>
>
> I just wanted to know why it is important that ideas come from a
> windows culture.
>  
>
>     If you don't like my idea just bring some "I don't like it". It's
>     as useful as everything you said and it's much less time wasting,
>     even for you.
>
>
> I don't think so. You said: "This discussion is _very_ interesting,
> please keep posting ideas." And i wanted to discuss it. Don't you
> think saying "I don't like it" would be a little rude?