I've renamed the message subject. It would be great if we could try and stick to informatively named, subject-specific threads (not always easy, I know). It makes information retrieval so much easier.
> > To finish this mail, I dont understand the logic to put system settings > > and system shutdow behind the user name (on the right of the top panel). > > I think this user name must manage only what is relevant to the user, > > like the "presence" (available, away, etc), change user, deconnect user, > > etc and system (settings, shutdown and info) need his own button. (icon > > and/or text (The Gnome logo?)). > > > > What do you think? > > I kind of like this idea. The user name is really not a good place for > shutdown and there is a lot of space on the top bar anyway so that > another menu with an appropriate icon shouldn't really harm that much. There's a logic to this reasoning. That said... I recently did some user testing on the shell (I *really* need to get around to blogging about that!), and one of the things I tested was users' ability to find both system settings and shutdown. What I found out: * All the users successfully found shutdown in the user menu (many of them immediately, some after a little scout around). * All testers tried to access system settings from the application picker rather than the user menu. So, these limited tests (6 users, 20-30 minutes testing each) do support the presence of shutdown in the user menu. Though they maybe question the presence of system settings there, I don't think it should necessarily be removed. It doesn't do a huge amount of harm and it does make some conceptual sense, since some system settings are specific to the user, their account details in particular. I might have got different results had I asked my participants to change their password, for instance. Best, Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
