On , Shane Nuessler <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jon,
For what it's worth I agree with you. I'm glad that the option is open
for a better name. It seems like a small thing but it's the only visible
entry to all this wonderful development and in some way should reflect
the beauty of the gnome-shell. I love using Gnome hence my thoughts.
Perhaps a button naming contest could be launched...
Anyway, that's all.
-----Original Message-----
From: William Jon McCann [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 11:35 AM
To: Shane Nuessler
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Overview menu
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Shane Nuessler
[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Jon,
> I'm not trying to be painful, but if this has come up a few times (and
> gnome-shell isn't exactly wide spread yet), won't it come up quite a
few
> more times? An FAQ is fine, but if something as central as that button
> needs an FAQ, perhaps it could be reviewed now while you can?
This is the kind of stuff that needs real data rather than speculation
I think. But my gut says that using Overview is not a better option
since it describes the metaphor but not the content (and why having a
menu labeled "Menu" may not be great either). Once we get those data
we'll review this decision just like all the rest. The effort
required to change the label on the button is not large and there is
no risk in deferring the decision until we have more information.
Anyway, that's how I see it.
Thanks,
Jon
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Regardless of it's name, I don't understand why I need to have "activities" in the top left hand corner of my screen at all times, prior to putting my mouse there I don't know what to expect form the word activities, and after I do I know what it does, descriptive naming does it no favours. It just needs to be attractive enough and familiar enough to entice people to put their mouse over it. Wouldn't an attractive icon do that job, as well as serving as a place for a distro to put it's branding. We know that windows has dropped the "start" from their menu, so its not exactly unfamiliar to just hone into the brand icon.
Michael.
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