Re: A VERY importnt point about the GNOMEprint menu..

[Bowie Poag <bjp primenet com>]

Thanks to Gleef for pointing this out -- I've now swayed WAY back towards
just using "Program" (text) , and no GNOMEprint for the menu. Here's why:
The font thats going to be used for the menu line is adjustable -- The
GNOMEPRint is not -- It would be ugly as sin to have an oddly out of place
foot next the others.

Branding, in this context, is now *not* a good thing. Read on:


On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Gleef wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Tom Vogt wrote:
> > Stephan Pfab <pfab@thales.sai.mathematik.uni-ulm.de> wrote:
> > > Lets call it GNOME menu or Footmenu. 
> > > The word program is misleading if (and I hope we do) use the GNOMEprint.
> > > Only people on this mailing list will know what we are talking about.
> > 
> > although I see the majority is for the foot, I would still ask for an option
> > to allow the user to turn it off, into a normal menu. then we'd need a name
> > for that menu, that's where "Program" comes back into play.
> 
> Using "GNOME" in that context would work also, but I would still lean
> towards "Program".
> 
> One critical point, in general unannotated icons should have tooltips.
> This would be especially critical for the "Program" menu.  I would think
> this should be a G1 level issue.  Of course, there is probably going to be
> a GNOME-wide option to turn off all tooltips, so people who hate them
> won't have to see them, the default should have the system telling the
> user that this is the "Program" menu that they are pointing to.
> 
> I strongly agree with whoever said that any gnomeprint icon used for such
> a menu should have a small, black, down-pointing arrow or triangle in the
> lower right hand corner.  There are a lot of people out there who will
> assume it is not a menu without that decoration, but will realize it if it
> is there.
> 
> One last point about the GNOMEprint.  The default GNOME font is
> customizable.  One of the common customizations is to make the font
> larger (for vision impared and hi res video modes).  How will the
> gnomeprint be displayed in such cases? Will it be this tiny picture,
> dwarfed by the big 'F' next to it; or will it be scaled, and look
> unpredicable and possibly ugly?  
> 
> I still prefer the menu heading to be text, but a picture will work if it
> is handled carefully.
> 
> -Gleef
> 
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