Colin Walters wrote:
Is big board tied to mugshot? What if I don't have a mugshot account?
Trying to change the pic shown on the identity, application
descriptions, more button in calendar etc launches mugshot pages.
We're using Mugshot as the server basis, yep. We're using it as
basically a public service where we can store data online like the
preferred applications and photo.
So what happens when I don't have a net connection or just don't want to
have a mugshot account? Can big board cope up with that and produce a
reasonably good user experience similar with what we have with our
current "offline desktop" if you will.
Can you explain a bit more about what you expected the search box to do,
but didn't? Or it did that you didn't expect?
It looks like a text box though the icon tool tip says "Show previously
used actions" and I tried typing in browser (some grayed text that says
search here or a title "Search" might make it more obvious) which showed
up a list of applications with the word browser on them which was
expected but there was some entries like login photo which was
unexpected. It produces a search list from yahoo which was unexpected
since I don't yahoo for searches. I couldn't figure out why or how I
could change it to use a different search engine or just turn off web
searches. I was expecting it to pick up the search engine settings from
Firefox.
In general I find applications unexpecting launching web pages and
grabbing focus annoying. Reminds me of advertising popups that distract
me from whatever task I was set to do. Big board does that and does
that unexpectedly. For example, more in the applications stock launches
a hybrid between a menu and a panel while other similar sections
launches mugshot pages.
I think having more settings within the application itself while picking
up whatever settings it needs from mugshot, flickr or whatever service
on the background would be better. Changing my photo id, adding some
applications stock, installing ,uninstalling one from the system via the
menu etc.
I want my local desktop experience to be coherent connected applications
rather than a loose collection of web pages linked from a application
which is what big board feels like.
Hm; did you expect clicking elsewhere to close it? What outside of the
desktop context did you want to switch to?
Yes. A normal menu would close when I click elsewhere. I think the GNOME
slab menu which looks very similar in structure does the same. I was
trying to access another application via a icon on the desktop or just
read my mail instead of big board menu staying on top. It would have
been ok if it didn't close as long as it would just moved out of my way
and stay on the background when I click something.
Rahul
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