Hi, This is my first email to this list so I'll introduce myself. I'm the main documentation writer for Tails [1], a live operating system for privacy and anonymity based on Debian and GNOME.
[1]: https://tails.boum.org/ We're preparing the release of Tails based on Debian Jessie, and thus GNOME Shell and we're updating our doc. I wonder what's your best practice to refer to the new style of menus or buttons that don't have a label anymore. You know, the menus with the single-gear, the double-gear, the three stripes, etc. See this screenshot [2] for an example of how we're referring to them right now. We're inlining the icon of the menu in the instructions: "Click on the * button" in the top-right corner...". [2]: https://share.riseup.net/#3igV6AM-uvCHaZicPoBVCg But I still feel that this is more prone to confusion that the good old menus with unique labels. For example, we did some user testing of our new installation instructions in November and in GNOME Disks some user confused the single-gear menu (applying to the whole disk) with the double-gear menu (applying to a single partition) and got into deep troubles. That's why we added screenshots on where the menu is but that would be a bit cumbersome to do every time... I also through about inlining the whole button (with it's square gray background) in the instructions, instead of just its icon. What do you do usually? _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
