Comments on: Windicators in action (albeit mocked-up action)

By: Jason Harvey

Jason Harvey — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:39:00 +0000

*sigh* This is pointless. Just another thing I’ll have to uninstall later on.

By: el-bhm

el-bhm — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:31:00 +0000

No. It’s Mozilla’s fault. It’s their job to pull their shit together. Not Canonical’s.

By: Tom Wright

Tom Wright — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:13:00 +0000

But wouldn’t this be a great way to stop plugin icons from littering your toolbar in firefox?

By: sect2k

sect2k — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:59:00 +0000

I’ts not that we don’t understand the purpose, it’s the fact that they provide nothing useful, are not something that came out of a need, don’t solve any actual problems, go against all logic and are once more showing that ubuntu is fast becoming Mark’s personal “linux for bad ideas”.

By: sect2k

sect2k — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:55:00 +0000

well someone should be fired as they are not doing their job. this whole windicators idea is bad as is the f-spot example above. Grow a pair and tell your boss he isn’t good at this.

By: sect2k

sect2k — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:52:00 +0000

you’re wrong, the talented and intelligent people at Canonical should tell Mark that this idea is just bad, and that he really shouldn’t bother with UX as he is piss poor at it, but I guess they don’t have the guts to do it, which is sad IMAO.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:23:00 +0000

You have to remember; this was Mark’s idea.

It’s simply up to the very talented and intelligent people at Canonical to try and make this idea work.

By: mpt

mpt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:06:00 +0000

Sir, you have insulted my handwriting. I challenge you to a duel.

By: rs

rs — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Sorry to burst your bubble but Ubuntu is more than Mark. Ubuntu are the many coders who work unpaid in their free time. Ubuntu are all the guys in the support forums who try to provide quality help to newbies. Ubuntu are all people who report bugs, maintain repos, translate software and try to live up to the slogan of Ubuntu which is “Linux for human beings”.

The community is the biggest asset of Ubuntu. Ignoring it will lead to downfall.

By: vervelover

vervelover — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:49:00 +0000

The problem here is that people think those windicator are there to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. But who ever said they were supposed to solve a problem? I think it’s just a new concept, made to be new, and not to solve anything. And when it’s done, we’ll see what it’s worth.

The real problem is the nonsense of gnome-shell, thank God Mark has an alternative vision for Ubuntu (and GNOME).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Mark is the founder of ubuntu and canonical, it’s him who gives the final answer, if someone need stop him like you said then ubuntu will no longer exist.

By: rs

rs — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:25:00 +0000

Why should I change my distro only because Mark is on an ego trip? I’d like to point you to the Ubuntu Code of Conduct:

“When we disagree, we consult others. Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time and the Ubuntu community is no exception. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively and with the help of the community and community processes.”

I don’t see community processes at work here!

By: sllih

sllih — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:21:00 +0000

“Whenever Firefox regards the current page as having a secure connection, and windicators are available, there should be a security windicator instead of the padlock in Firefoxâ€™s status bar.”

Trying to take information out of context? Poor design, to be honest. Many other windicators share this issue. IMHO.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:06:00 +0000

Argh Comic Sans! :-P

By: mpt

mpt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:45:00 +0000

There is no â€œAyatana teamâ€. You might be thinking of:
* the Ayatana mailing list, but most of the people on that list are volunteers;
* the Canonical Design team, but windicators werenâ€™t our idea;
* the Canonical Desktop Experience team, but windicators werenâ€™t their idea either.

By: Ubuntu

Ubuntu — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:55:00 +0000

Very useless

By: Pvelkovski

Pvelkovski — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:47:00 +0000

Reading this post I just got a wonderful idea. Let’s make new kind of applications. The applications would consist only of Title bar. No need for anything else because all the functionality of the application will be put in windicator menus. This would also solve the waisted space problem because it is not the title bar or the status bar that take the most space on our screens. It is the application window itself.

Tagging photos using windicators. That is a wonderful idea.

I think Mark’s brain got irradiated badly while he was visiting space. Or he was abducted by brain eating aliens.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:46:00 +0000

Shuttleworth is doing what he think is best for ubuntu and he deserve credit, but you are completely free to change to another distro that doesn’t use windicators.

By: Duncan Lock

Duncan Lock — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:19:00 +0000

I agree with everyone else – the whole windicators thing seems…. utterly pointless and lame. The reason that all the examples and mockups provided so far don’t make sense, or seem useless, is because the whole concept is a deeply flawed solution in search of a problem.

Fortunately this is linux, so there are plenty of other options.

By: daas88

daas88 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:36:00 +0000

*Sigh* This change doesn’t bother me that much, but I don’t think my father will like to have all that crap on the window, he will most likely curse when he tries to close a window and click a windicator instead (because I suppose we won’t be able to change the window controls anymore).

Mr. Shuttleworth eliminates the tooltips in the indicators because “they clutter” the desktop but then he puts a bunch of icons on the titlebar. I don’t understand what he is thinking…