UIFe: Desktop should be titled

[Conscious User]

Binary package hint: unity

The "Desktop" placeholder menubar that appears on Unity when no window is focused has no title. This looks inconsistent, makes harder for the user to know that a placeholder menubar exists in the first place and leaves an awkward left gap when the menu is being shown. This could be solved by simply placing a "Desktop" title there, or maybe "File Manager" to be consistent with Nautilus.

Desired solution:

- When no window is in focus (e.g. after logging in or after closing all windows), the word "Ubuntu Desktop" should be displayed in the top left of the Top Bar.

- There are no window controls ("Buttons") associated with the desktop, so mousing into the top left of the panel should continue to display "Ubuntu Desktop"

- The special version of the Nautilus menu for the desktop should be used when the pointer is over the panel (menu defined in a separate bug)

[Conscious User (conscioususer)]

Marco, why exactly is the report incomplete?

[Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112)]

When a bug needs design, it should be marked as incomplet and a new task on Ayatana design project must be opened.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I am marking this bug as confirmed after looking at a design mockup of Unity at bug 838708

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

njpatel passed to on to me. Looking at:

  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/79859220/launcher.png

it appears to be just a case of setting the string "Desktop" to appear in the top bar. My understanding would be that this needs to be string for a11y purposes, rather than an image of any sort. If an image/asset is required, could somebody provide some more context and I'll try to investigate.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is there a patch for this yet? Can we please implement this using dgettext() and using the "gtk30" or "compiz" domains? Both of those already have a "Desktop" message ID and translations, and I think the "gtk30" should be fairly well translated. I'm ok with this release wise as long as it's not introduding yet another "Desktop" string into unity's PO template (on my system there are already 11 applications with that string).

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

http://paste.ubuntu.com/698462/ is the working patch, though I'm still refining it as it has some sizing issues. I used "nautilus" for the domain but can change easily.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The proposed patch uses the "nautilus" domain, which also sounds correct to me, given that it is the title of nautilus.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I think this only affects 1 screenshot, and that screenshots might not even be worth redoing for this so +1 from the Docs team to show Desktop. The sample screenshots in #5 and #6 are obviously from 11.04. Just checking that we're not actually bringing back the Ubuntu logo to the top bar.

Was this forwarded to the Translators yet?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Jeremy Bicha [2011-09-28 18:37 -0000]:
> Was this forwarded to the Translators yet?

No need, we'll use an existing string from Nautilus (that's what I
discussed above).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.20.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.20.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release + cherry-pick:
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PluginClassHandler<UnityWindow,
      CompWindow, 0>::get() (LP: #835259)
    - dash does not scroll down during keyboard navigation (LP: #852506)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in _XFreeEventCookies() (LP: #851472)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_unref() (LP: #847512)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in nux::WindowCompositor::MouseEventCycle()
      (LP: #831678)
    - compiz and X can disagree on the stacking order (LP: #845719)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::dash::LensView::OnResultAdded()
      (LP: #855252)
    - CCSM crashes Unity (LP: #861643)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::addWindowStackChanges()
      (LP: #862115)
    - Touch - When dragging a window with a 3 touch, dragging to the top
      should show the maximize gesture preview. (LP: #750316)
    - compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() (LP: #750386)
    - Launcher - Spread should not affect the state of window (LP: #764673)
    - [UIFe] Add system setting icon to Launcher (LP: #764744)
    - compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() [Merely unchecking the Unity
      plugin is enough to crash Compiz...] (LP: #823386)
    - Launcher - does not hide if revealed from top 24px of the left edge of
      the screen (LP: #835989)
    - Clickable areas of previously active window remains on 'Show Desktop'
      (LP: #836325)
    - Cannot search for some apps in Dash (LP: #837075)
    - Dash - Search box cursor not responding correctly to focus (LP: #839704)
    - Multi-display: Application menu only showing on primary screen
      (LP: #845212)
    - Ellipsized values in size filter (LP: #851359)
    - (oneiric) dash result expansions don't display icons (LP: #854615)
    - run the wrong command if enter is hit before the view is refreshed
      (LP: #856205)
    - Java application windows cut-off/truncated/not displayed properly
      (LP: #857201)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in sigc::signal_base::impl() (LP: #831769)
    - Minimizing a window should switch focus to the windows underneath it
      (breaks restore) (LP: #859885)
    - Ratings filter allows ratings > 1.0 (LP: #861255)
    - Serious Unity problem stuck in spread when dragging icons back to the
      dash (LP: #862045)
    - Must use hardware keyboard to perform search for applications in Unity
      (LP: #739812)
    - Files lens should also search Downloads (LP: #748915)
    - The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864 or
      lesser width (LP: #765338)
    - Dash - dragging a file outside of the Desktop Dash should close the Dash
      (LP: #764641)
    - Text in Dash search text box overflows and doesn't crop with longer
      strings; RtL input starts in wrong place (LP: #834765)
    - Where the average background colour is either very light or dark, adjust
      this value to darken/lighten in order to preserve readability
      (LP: #837993)
    - Dash does not resize when I connect to an external display and mirror
      displays (LP: #83813...

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

"Just checking that we're not actually bringing back the Ubuntu logo to the top bar."

Is it really a good idea to re-add the Ubuntu logo to the top bar? This makes it confusing for the docs to tell people to click the Ubuntu button to open the dash (which is exactly what we tell people to do!). And it's also confusing for Natty users who have gotten used to a Ubuntu logo in the top left corner acting very differently.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say at first look, I think adding the Ubuntu logo breaks our documentation two weeks after documentation string freeze.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

John: can we re-look at this per Jeremy's concerns and assess (version-to-version) whether it's a good idea. It appears to be a valid point that if the textual documentation suggests that somebody "click on the Ubuntu icon in the top corner" the presence of the second Ubuntu logo in some contexts breaks that.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

I also found the second Ubuntu logo fairly redundant, because immediately below there are another Ubuntu logo.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Me three. Now the bar looks like having a nonfunctional bfb, which is very confusing for upgradings. I'd like to keep the old natty bfb where it was, but I guess it's not easy to convince you to move it out of the launcher again; I still don't understand the reasons for this at all, I thought you wanted to provide a consistent panel layout/title for applications, but by adding a dummy icon we now waste the space *and* have the functionality regression of moving the bfb into the launcher. Can we please revert either of these?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is there actually an Ubuntu logo in the top bar now? Neil's original proposed screen shot (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/732016/+attachment/2366470/+files/Ubuntu_Desktop.png) has it, but I don't see it in current unity (4.20.0-0ubuntu1).

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Here's what the Desktop text & icon looks like today.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

we need to get design to comment on the situation, it looks awful...

[Nathan Haines (nhaines)]

I don't think that looks terrible, per se, but it could definitely be confusing. If we need branding or the Ubuntu roundel, could we use the Ubuntu font to say "ubuntu Desktop" without requiring an image or destroying translations?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

IMHO, there is *no* need to add yet another Ubuntu logo. That’s overbranding, Ubuntu desktop is recognizable enough.

For example, please see the following image, and count how much times it says who’s the developer.
http://ubuntuone.com/3vxOZEjKkTyCn0iC6zZO8N

Do we really need this kind of UI redundancy?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Not mentioning that the redundant Ubuntu roundel in the panel looks jagged with Radiance theme.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

I was unaware of this bug until now. My immediate reaction when I saw the Ubuntu logo in the panel was "hey, what's-that-do?" and clicking it. Then clicking it again, just to double check if it *really* didn't do anything.

Also considering that people upgrading from the Netbook LTS will go from having a button with the exact same look go from being their only and primary access to the system, to be an unresponsive icon.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Will the roundel be removed from the panel before release or that for P ?, note that changing the fonts/DPI does not resize the roundel so that looks even weird.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Omer: I've bumped it up and raised it via the design team email list. It's being discussed, although it's the weekend and many of those involved work 9-5.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Sometimes the label disappears, so only the icon is present.

[John Lea (johnlea)]

Description updated to clarify the removal of the Ubuntu roundal and replacement with the word 'Ubuntu'. The desktop title should read "Ubuntu Desktop"

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

And what should we do with translations?
If just to put "Ubuntu" + tr("Desktop") there, it will look bad, for example, in Russian there should be "Рабочий стол Ubuntu", not "Ubuntu рабочий стол".

I think the easiest way is to leave the "Desktop" label without the icon and include "Ubuntu" word during P cycle.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Dmitry’s right. Another example: “Ubuntu Desktop” is translated to Spanish as “Escritorio de Ubuntu“ and not “Ubuntu Escritorio”. I don’t believe it’s a good idea to require new translations at this point, especially because this adds a highly visible new string that may not be translated in all languages in time for release.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This got superseded by bug 865150.

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

Please remove the duplicate status from this bug. This and bug 865150 are not duplicates, they are different issues.

The reason why I'm asking this is bug 869586: I need to mark it as duplicate of this bug -- and it's definitely not a duplicate of bug 865150, since we don't have any Ubuntu logo in Unity 2D.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Bug 865150 got retitled indeed, but with the current Unity you get a desktop title ("Desktop") without an icon, which is what it's supposed to be now. If it's still not working in unity-2d, then we can use bug 869586?

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

Indeed I can also link bug 869586 to the branch we have, but I'm not sure if it will be handled correctly when releasing; and in any case it doesn't seem correct, formally. The fact is that we have two bugs:
- this, which says that the "Desktop" label should be added (unity-2d status: fix committed).
- bug 865150, which says that the logo should be removed (unity-2d status: not affected).

They are quite different, especially as far as Unity 2D is concerned. If you remove the duplicate status, then the bug will be "Fix released" for Unity, and "Fix committed" for Unity 2D, and I'll be able to mark all bugs that users will file (while our fix is not released, which might even not happen for Oneiric) as duplicates of this. Which seems all fine to me.

Sorry to be so picky :-)