On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:46, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21/06/10 10:42, James Putt wrote: > > I agree colour is significant. I was considering that the top menu by > convention is monochromatic with certain colours having a particular > meaning, and how having different icons in the drop down menu to the icons > representing the menu would play out. > > > In order to avoid the panel going gaudy, and to *keep* colour significant, > we should only use colour for "off-nominal and exceptional" situations. > yes one can indicate presence status without color, see here: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Icon_Metaphors yet the first thing is to replace the bubbles in the MeMenu with symbolic icons that represent not solely chat. > So we need to think carefully about whether being offline is an "alert" > condition or not. I don't really think it is. > Online/offline status doesn't belong into the Me Menu. The statuses the MeMenu wants to indicate, IIRC, are presence status and sign-in status of social services, not online status. Offline/Online belongs somewhere else. Martin Owens registered a blueprint for this last year, you can find it here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lucid-online-status
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