DapperDesktopPlan
Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/extra-desktop-planning
Created: 2005-10-31 by SebastienBacher
Contributors: JeffWaugh, MarkShuttleworth, MattZimmerman, ScottJamesRemnant
Packages affected:
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 current language list is ugly and doesn't match the login screen theme.
We are going to:
- make it use the human GTK theme
- add icons to the context menu
- change the bottom/left actions by an "Advanced" item
- change the way to list the languages
The options for the list of languages are still to discuss:
- list only the language (ie: english) with a disclosure widget for the variants
- give indications on how to add a new language
- sort the languages by region?
We should have an another spec about those changes?
The session menu has a "Default System Session" item, what it does is not clear, we are going to rename it.
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 put a button to the top-right corner for this. - we are going to have a top level button for this => top right corner - no radio buttons, and "Cancel" as the default button
the session dialog need to be reworked
The current dialog is quite ugly we are going to design a new one, which:
- uses different categories for logout/switch user and shutdown/reboot
- doesn't use radio button
- has "cancel" as default action
workspace switcher
We want to keep this applet on the default panel because that's a nice, powerful feature that users like and that windows doesn't have. The feature is not obvious to user, we are going to add a tooltip for it (like the clock applet one).
volume control applet
ubuntu express/hardware database collector
battstat applet
The artwork need to be reworked. Nokia has a nice icon for this. We need to get a description of the artwork we want during UBZ.
network manager
We are going to have it for dapper so it should be pushed as soon as possible to get feedback on it.
update notifier
- an issue is that's different of the window version
- has an x on it, just have to click
Implementation
Outstanding issues