Re: Revisit "your name on the top bar"

[Kelly Sinnott <ksinnott5ht gmail com>]

Ok, I just did a test on two people, both Windows users who are completely unfamiliar with GNOME:

#1 is a bit more comfortable with computers. I told him to "click the menu in the upper right corner" He went straight for the right place with his mouse and clicked it. He suggested that I add "far upper right" (possibly because my monitor is obscenely big)(.

#2 uses Windows regularly but is a bit hesitant. I told her the same thing. She moused around in the corner, asking "is this a menu? which one is the menu?" she opened all of them, so I'm assuming she would have eventually found a menu item she was directed to click. She thinks that we should describe the icon next to the name, since that will still be there. She called it the "text box", the "chat bubble", the "word bubble", and "the balloon like in the comics"...not a bad idea since we use descriptions of the other icons, like the accessibility person. 

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:

I just ran "user menu" by a user. With an empty desktop, I told her
to "click the user menu on the top bar and select System Settings."

She didn't see a User menu (i.e. a menu called User). Then she went
for the universal access menu, because it looks like a little person,
a user. Then she scrubbed back and forth a few times on the icons,
without going all the way to the name on the right. She finally went
far enough to the right.

The only reason she knew she'd gotten the right menu was that she
saw System Settings. That's not a terrible thing, if we're careful
to only reference it with some sort of target where the user can
get some sort of affirmation.

Obviously, I couldn't really test "click your name on the top bar"
with the same user right after that test. But I did ask her about
that phrase, and she thought she'd have found it immediately with
that language.

I suspect "menu in the upper right corner" would get good results
as well, but I don't have any more users within arm's reach.

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:26 -0700, Kelly Sinnott wrote:
> I have two possible fixes. Both involve making a new definition page
> for the menu which shows both the full name and icon view. One would
> be to come up with an acceptable name for the menu (the bug uses "user
> menu" which I like), change all references to "your name on the top
> bar" to "user menu" as a link, and call it a day. The other way would
> be to change the references to "the menu in the upper right corner" or
> something like that, but still link the word "menu" to clear things
> up. Thoughts?
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
> wrote:
>         https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651299
>
>         Proposed patches will allow the top bar to drop the user's
>         name
>         and just show the status icon if space is constrained. This
>         could
>         cause confusion for our current standard blurb "Click your
>         name
>         on the top bar". I've filed a docs bug here:
>
>         https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653487
>
>         Let's discuss.
>
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Kelly