I also think that having the word "Activities" on your top left corner all the time is unnecesary. It only wastes space, that perhaps could be used on other stuff. I don't think it would even help a newcomer to understand what it does...An icon would be much more attractive in that place.
Cheers! On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > -- Pablo Marchant Campos Estudiante Licenciatura en AstronomÃa PUC Miembro area TI SinergiaUC
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