Also all the talk of saved space is of course, WIDTH, not height. I've already
have a few very long Windows titles from browsing the web that end up shifting
over the clock since there wasn't enough room (though maybe that's more an
issue to call for truncating)
"If you used an icon it leaves too much to interpretation on what that icon
means." Well that's what starting this thread, the word "activities" leaves too
much to interpretation as well.
Windows "Start" button is a poor analogy as it has been absent since Vista
From: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:43 -0700
Subject: Re: Overview menu
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Well whether you have an icon or not, you're still using 25-48 pixels (whatever
it is I don't remember) height so it's not that much saved space. Plus, when a
new user starts using the system "Activities" will probably alert them as a
good place to start since it's the only word in the whole desktop. This is
similar to the "Start" button used in Windows. If you used an icon it leaves
too much to interpretation on what that icon means.
sri
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Mark Curtis <[email protected]> wrote:
Since the prospect of saved space seems to be ignored, here is another reason.
I think having an icon would better differentiate the button that activates the
overlay from the part showing the currently active application.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:44:14 +0100
Subject: RE: Overview menu
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
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,
2009/10/28 Bob CFC <[email protected]>:
> 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!
>>> 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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