> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:44:14 +0100 > From: Bart Broeckx <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Overview menu > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > I fully agree with Pablo Marchant, Michael, (and others), that an > attractive > icon would be a much better choice than a word like: Activities or > Menu or > Start or Overview or Whatever. > Even a prominent and big icon uses less space then a word. If there is > only > 1 top-panel like GNOME-Shell has we need to be very conservative about > what > we do with the free space. > > In my opinion the GNOME "feet" looks very good, we just need to create > a > nice version witch we can use for several years as button to enter > the > "Activities" menu. And distro's can replace the "feet" with their icon > if > they want to. > > Just my 2 cents, :) > Kind regards,
Another 10cents piece ? I don't agree with the sentence "even a big icon uses less space than a word", and for one simple reason : our screens are mostly rectangular and our windows are also. So a word of about 10 to 15 characters may perfectly better fit in a corner the screen, because it is less high than an icon. Personally, I prefer a word, whatever it would be. Just because I look at the screen before clicking or moving the mouse, and so, visually, when I click on the word, I'm already waiting for some sort of results, that I'm not waiting for when I see an icon on the desktop. And, if I'm well remembering, this was one of the reasons of KDE 4.0 rejects.... Regards Pierre _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
