Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-21 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
Hello Conscious ;) On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:57, Conscious User wrote: > > Frederik, I think you are confusing things. Vish didn't say the intention > was > to eliminate each and every textual information possible, just the > tooltips. > My Response was confusing, i'll rephrase partly: General

Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-20 Thread Conscious User
yatana-dev] Unity and tooltips instead we chose to use symbolic icons?why does the appmenu consist of words still?this is totally inconsistent with the other indicators and makes nosense from a interaction point of view.if we are trying to replace blunt primary school orthography withmetaphors

Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-20 Thread David Hamm
if you really don't like the thick top then make it skinny like shell, their icon over text was pretty nice even in small format. Sorry for blurring into the subject. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.n

Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-20 Thread David Hamm
"why does the appmenu consist of words still?" Exactly! the app-menu imo is dead, free the top space to applications and be done with it. Let the apps build into it. Of course this presents a bit of a problem considering the odd shape of the top space... j.mp/9BWbAi Single bar unity or waste more

Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

2010-10-20 Thread frederik.nn...@gmail.com
instead we chose to use symbolic icons? why does the appmenu consist of words still? this is totally inconsistent with the other indicators and makes no sense from a interaction point of view. if we are trying to replace blunt primary school orthography with metaphors in formal symbolic language,