Re: Overview menu

[Pierre Wieser <pwieser trychlos org>]

> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:44:14 +0100
> From: Bart Broeckx <broeckx gmail com>
> To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> Subject: RE: Overview menu
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> 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,

Another 10cents piece ?

I don't agree with the sentence "even a big icon uses less space
than a word", and for one simple reason : our screens are mostly
rectangular and our windows are also. So a word of about 10 to 15
characters may perfectly better fit in a corner the screen,
because it is less high than an icon.

Personally, I prefer a word, whatever it would be.
Just because I look at the screen before clicking or moving the
mouse, and so, visually, when I click on the word, I'm already
waiting for some sort of results, that I'm not waiting for when
I see an icon on the desktop.

And, if I'm well remembering, this was one of the reasons of
KDE 4.0 rejects....

Regards
Pierre