Goddess, this is _very_ neat!! =D *Peterson* *http://petercast.net*
On 11 December 2010 23:53, frederik.nn...@gmail.com < frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 22:40, Conscious User <consciousu...@aol.com>wrote: > >> >> Anyways, for the sake of giving a more complete answer: it should be >> mentioned that the Me Menu has always been designed to be more >> functional with respect to microblogging thant it is now: >> >> https://wiki.edubuntu.org/MeMenu#Use%20cases >> > > Reading this spec over again was quite inspiring! > The first thing that came to my mind, is to conclude the poll for now and > to focus on the new task at hand: > - how to merge the messaging menu with the me menu. > > the only thing i can see that the two have in common is their social > context, so i'd brainstorm some titles: > We Menu > Social Menu > People Menu > Contact Menu > Communication Menu > *Me Menu* > > after a couple of hours of research on icons, symbols and pictograms for > "Feed", "Stream" and "Communication", i finally came to realize that the > combined menu we are looking for will not represent a protocol, a group of > protocols or a type of communication, it will represent ME in context of my > social environment, computerized, connected, attentive to hails or occupied > otherwise. > > The purpose of the messaging menu is pretty clear, there is not much to > discuss. The envelope on top of it doesn't represent the menu's contents > equally, so this is nothing we would want to transfer to the new proposed > combined menu. > > What we *do* want to preserve is the expressive power of the Me Menu, its > features: > * Me > * Presence > * Custom Status (publish!) > * Accounts > > normally i'd say Presence belongs in the Session Menu, because the Session > Menu is not limited to communication and would allow Presence to also affect > the local system behaviour. > Now if proposed new Menu stands primarily for "Me" and what "Me" wants, > there's no problem with keeping Presence in there. > > The next step is to condense the functionality of the Messaging Menu into > the Me Menu, in order to make the best out of it all ;) > > we have already isolated the main content, functionality and purpose of the > messaging menu: > * Conversation Indicators > > now let's merge: > * Me > * Presence > * Custom Status (publish!) > * Conversation Indicators > * Accounts > > I think everything related to Accounts should be handled in About Me. > Clicking my Face (top menu item) should open About Me. > Entering a detail like my instant messaging address for e.g. XMPP should > connect all the dots for me: > * configure chat account > * pull contacts and populate Folks > * get my last known Avatar and status message > > Upon first boot, a wizard should open "About Me", asking me to enter my > details or to skip. > anyone? > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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