On 24 June 2010 06:07, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Neither do I :) > > 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. So if my sign-in status is "i'm not signed in", how would the MeMenu's status convey this? > > 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 > That blueprint is about network connectivity, not social service connectivity... I agree that is a separate concern from the MeMenu. Instead of saying "offline" maybe I'll stick to "signed out". _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
