RE: Overview menu

[Bart Broeckx <broeckx gmail com>]

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 <linuxoflondon googlemail com>:
> 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 <pamarca gmail com>:
>> 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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