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

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Bowie Poag wrote:

> 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:

	Well...  We could get rid of this whole problem the way MS did.
Just make a font with the GNOME footprint.  Then the foot will always be
the right size...  :^)

	I'll be gone for a week, so I've unsub'ed from the list.  See
everyone in a week.

> 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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						-Ben

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