DapperDesktopPlan

Revision 2 as of 2005-11-01 00:01:38

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Summary

All the elements of the default desktop should be nices, easy to find and contribute to a good user experience.

Rationale

Use cases

  • Michael finds the list of language screen of the login screen pretty ugly and doesn't match the nice default them
  • Scott thinks that the in/out activity of the default network applet is pretty disturbing
  • Claire has just discovered how to change workspaces while clicking by error on the corresponding applet, she thinks that's a nice feature but it should be easier to figure what these squares on the bottom panel do

Scope

Design

GDM

(read GdmRoadmap about that too)

The language list is ugly.

  • language, checkbox for variants
  • disclosure widget
  • default language variation by region
  • instructions for adding languages/changing default?
    • ( ) New languages can be added through the Language Selector
      • U in the System/Administration menu.
  • the button label should be the currently selected language
  • the context menu should have icons
  • "advanced" instead of reboot/shut down/quit

    => candidate for an another spec try to get a humant theme that just have an advanced button and see what reaction we get. Add nice icons to the menu. --In the next coule of weeks!

For the session list:

  • Default System Session = users xorg: Get a better name!

network applet

The in/out activity is annoying, network manager will fix that

the "log out" is not easy enough to find

  • we are going to have a button, to the top right corner, for this

the session dialog need to be reworked

  • no radio buttons, and "Cancel" as the default button
  • nice dialog with group of options it should have logout/switch users in one part

and then with shutdown stuff in another part.

workspace switcher

The applet needs a tooltip describing what it does (ie: "switch workspace")

volume control applet

ubuntu express/hardware database collector

battstat applet

nokia has a nice icon for this => another BOF about the artwork?

network manager

we should get it as soon as possible for dapper to get some feedback now

update notifier

  • an issue is that's different of the window version
  • has an x on it, just have to click

Implementation

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion