-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 20/12/10 11:57: >... > I think the Messaging Menu *should* be purely an inbox, because one > of the most common complaints against the notifications redesign > is how reacting to IM/mail notifications is now less efficient > (opening an menu and looking for an entry instead of simply clicking > on the tray icon). I personally think that the difference is > negligible, but *only* if the menu is not too cluttered.
If a mail client's users are annoyed that it notifies them of new mail in a uselessly non-interactive way, maybe it should stop doing that. Maybe it should instead use just the messaging menu and a distinctive sound, for example. But leaving that aside, I don't see how that has anything to do with the design of the messaging menu. How do you get from "non-interactive IM/mail notifications are inefficient" to "the messaging menu should not have an element for posting to Twitter"? Maybe it's true that there shouldn't be *any* menu containing an item for posting to Twitter, but not for that reason. > I don't think the current separation between the Message and Me menus > is necessarily a bad thing. I believe it only needs some refinement, > both in design and implementation, to show that the idea of thinking > functionality-wise (inbox vs. outbox) instead of application-wise > (empathy, evolution, etc.) is not absurd as it seems at a first glance. Even if something is great once you get used to it, if it's absurd at first glance that's still a big design problem. > Some things that get in the way of this objective now: > > - Shortcuts for configuring im/microblog accounts in the Me Menu. > This overlaps with the messaging menu directly and keeping those > entries there does not make sense once the accounts are configured... > the Messaging Menu does it more correctly, showing them only if > no accounts are configured If the menus were merged, probably we would need to jettison the accounts items. > - Ubuntu One in the Me Menu... I don't think it really fits. Agreed. > - "Contacts" and "Compose" in the Messaging Menu... having two > "outbox" entries lost in the middle looks and feels wrong... > and adds clutter >... How are they "outbox" entries? - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0m5fcACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrUhwCfTEn9g9vlLSnWfmgRGQ3IaBQv eZYAn0vmJ+tMXe5uOEYCeqtobZ59G8Tm =0LCX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
