Few questions (suggestions) regarding user experience

And please fix dropbox indicator too. That would be great !

Thanks for the feedback! Please open bugs for your issues at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementary so developers see them and can
address them.

Regards,
Cassidy
On Dec 13, 2014 10:01 AM, "Abhinav" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> New question #259028 on elementary OS:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+question/259028
>
> First , Thanks a lot for creating such a beautiful distro :) and a great
> out of box experience you guys are providing. Nonethless I want to improve
> this OS more so I would like to offer a few points:
>
> 1. There's no option to configure what closing my laptop's lid does. It
> directly sleeps. While this is the default behaviour , but there are some
> instances where I would like it should just lock my screen and keep
> doing/downloading my stuff.
>
> 2. The top panel ,idk what it's called , but it is a lot buggy. Sometimes
> it would just turn black sometimes hold my background image color. The
> usual behaviour is , I would login -> it would be transparent ... then I
> would open lets say firefox , it would remain transparet ... then I would
> open files -> it suddenly turns black and remains black even after I close
> all applications till I logout :(. Black panel dosen't looks good :/ BTW I
> have Nvidia Optimus and both Intel and Nvidia show this behaviour.
>
> 3. The scrollbars (default) are two narrow. believe me on a smaller screen
> , they are quiet annoying when I try to drag them and they don't follow :|
> . Adding a little ( just a little little) width will help a lot :) .
>
> 4. The default files application becomes unresponsive sometimes ( usually
> when opening 5-6 instances ) , and this shouldn't happen ... right?
>
> 5. The OS won't install in UEFI mode till I chose to 'download updates
> while installing'. Following that I have a limited low speed (60kbps)
> internet access , providing a updated ISO should solve this problem. Any
> help out there :(
>
> 6. Most Icon themes don't fit well with this OS. For example try to
> install and apply Numix/Moka anything. First of all there icons on the top
> panel will be inconsistent in size. Some large some small. This only
> happens in EOS and not in Ubuntu so it might be something else. And and and
> another thing is , when I select the monochromatic icons on dark theme so
> they are white in color , they don't fit well with notifications. See the
> notification that pops up is white in color and icons are too , so they are
> hard to see. I hope you are getting me.
>
> 7. I loved that feature terminal provides notification too , can we take
> it to next level too. Usually I am downloading some things in the terminal
> and I know it would require a input when its finished downloading so I have
> to just keep on checking and checking all the time which is super annoying.
> Take installing mysql as an example when it asks you to setup password , or
> installing 153M oracle java and other things too when they ask you input.
> It would be great if notification would tell me if terminal is asking me
> for some input so that it can proceed further.
>
> 8. Super+L dosen't lock my screen , but manually clicking on Power icon ->
> Lock , locks it for me.
>
> 9. The videos application is great , except it lags the seek preview when
> you try to use seek time. To reproduce , open a large file and constantly
> move seek time so that you see the seek preview moving too. And please
> introduce a speed up video feature too , along with slow down. Some
> professors tend to speak a little slower :p and sometimes it goes over my
> head haha.
>
> Thanks again :)
>
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@cassidyjames , bugs reported , what about feature suggestions as such in #9 and #7