How about Zoom instead of Activities? Apart from being a more attractive word it implies something to do/investigate for a new user, where activities could be misconstrued as a label for the window title on it's right.
2009/10/28 Pablo Marchant <[email protected]>: > 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 Astronomía PUC > Miembro area TI SinergiaUC > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
