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I Tawt I Taw A Purdy Desktop
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Moving around workspaces and interface suggestion #589

Open ghost opened 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

I have been playing around with the interface (love it, finally a clean UI) and wanted to ask about two aspects.

@ Workspaces Firstly, the move to another workspace only works when you click on the menu and then press the corresponding number on the keyboard. It does not work when actually pressing the "Workspace X" in the menu. Is this indented?

Also, I am a bit confused about moving workspaces "Up", "Down" and "Right" - isn't one of them redundant?

@ Interface Secondly, a small suggestion (too small to open a separate topic but I believe it would make the interface more consistent). Currently the menus in the top panel are in different colors and styles:

screenshot from 2016-09-14 00-18-13

screenshot from 2016-09-14 00-17-53

screenshot from 2016-09-14 00-18-27

While I appreciate that tooltips and menus should be a little bit different, I was wondering if 1) The colors of all three could match so the look is consistent across Solus. 2) The style of bubble for right application click (currently square) and left click for systray icon (currently in a bubble) could match. The latter looks really nice and match the main application menu.

Just a small suggestion to make the UI even better than it already is - I think people would appreciate it. Keep up the good work!

ikeydoherty commented 8 years ago

We can't control the appearance of tray items, by virtue that they're external applications using X11 tray embed. In future we intend to use AppIndicators ("Status Notifier Item"), and replace the network-manager applet with something integrated.

ghost commented 8 years ago

I see, thanks for the explanation. It seems that some themes (like Arc-Dark) have a consistent color for the tooltips and menu so at least that is available.