Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

nice ;) On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 17:17, David Hamm wrote: > Updated, probably the last one. Setup Account should be Setup Messaging (or > something like that), more friendly that way. i came across the visual metaphors you used, except for one: the blue ">" arrow.. i wish there was a way for yo

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

updated: https://cacoo.com/diagrams/LglZe1fa5Nf0UVEA ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hi topdownjimmy, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:04, topdownjimmy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Conscious User > wrote: > > > > > I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that > field. > > > But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you > still >

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Conscious User wrote: > > > I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field. > > But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still > > would have to ask: Say where? To whom? > > I agree. In fact, seconds after sending

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hi Conscious ;) On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 14:01, Conscious User wrote: Every time I tried a mockup with two text fields in the same > menu it ended up so... I don't know... heavy, that it just > felt wrong and I ended up giving up sending to the list > entirely. > make one with an icon beside the

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

> Wow. This is the single neatest suggestion I've seen on the Ayatana > list. I particularly like the echoing of standard web presentation in > the menu, to cue users as to the purpose of the field. > > The rest of the thread has further good ideas, so I'm not +1'ing this > mockup as a final posi

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On 29/06/10 09:19, Conscious User wrote: One thing that is universal, though, is how [tweets] are displayed: picture on the left, message to the right with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of the familiarity of this layout to make the purpose of the broadcasting field more evident

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Then perhaps consider using visual metaphors for available and busy, > instead of (only) color. > The color was just for the mockup, by the way. I like the current symbolic icons better. ___ Maili

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:26, David Hamm wrote: > > anyway. I took your idea and made it smaller. > https://cacoo.com/diagrams/LglZe1fa5Nf0UVEA > a lot of stuff that i like in there. And a lot of linux love also :D ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

hi appi On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 23:56, Apoorva Sharma wrote: > Hi > > I really like this idea. I've used it to make a mockup of my own. I've made > 3 mockups: > >- The view a user sees on an unconfigured install. > > i like! > >- A user with both a broadcast account and a chat account

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

> I've changed my mind: this is not a problem! So what if the text box > has focus automatically? That's a hidden feature. The text goes away > if you click on the box, but also when you just start typing after > opening the menu. These features co-exist. Explanatory text in a text > box seems to

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

@Sharma Other then slightly modifying the top image with configure buttons for the chat and broadcast, similar to the other images "sign out" part, this is a nice solid improvement over the original imo. ns website btw, took me a while to figure out that you have to

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:47, Remco wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:04, Conscious User wrote: >> Furthermore, one of the things I currently like the most in the Me >> Menu is the fact that the text box receives focus automatically >> when you click on the Me Menu icon. That wouldn't fit your

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Fb asks (in German): Was machst du gerade? In english: what are you doing just now? To receive a more valuable response from the user, one should probably suggest, instead of asking.. Perhaps like: "what you are doing just now:" Gnite.. -- Gesendet von meinem Palm Pre Conscious User

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Le mardi 29 juin 2010 à 15:54 +0200, Igor Vatavuk a écrit : > Hi, ayatana list! > Perhaps the text above the text-box should be in the form of a question, > similar to how Facebook, Identica and Twitter ask. > "What's on your mind?" or something like that. > Since Me-menu shows the text-box only

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hi On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Luke Benstead wrote: > I think we should have a divider between the social networking stuff, and > the IM statuses as they are not related. Also, I'm not entirely sure why we > need the name on the me menu when there is a name on the Me-menu button > itself.

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hi, ayatana list! Perhaps the text above the text-box should be in the form of a question, similar to how Facebook, Identica and Twitter ask. "What's on your mind?" or something like that. Since Me-menu shows the text-box only after account details have been entered, we can assume that the users wi

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:04, Conscious User wrote: > >> I still think it's unclear what that text box does. I made a quick >> mockup which adds some text to the text boxes, explaining what they >> are supposed to do. This text goes away when the text box is >> activated. The social networking te

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

> I still think it's unclear what that text box does. I made a quick > mockup which adds some text to the text boxes, explaining what they > are supposed to do. This text goes away when the text box is > activated. The social networking text box says "Post Twitter > message..." when the Twitter ic

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:51, Remco wrote: > I also changed the Custom Status menu entry into a text box. That > makes it even more clear that the top text box is for social > networking, and not setting status. This changes/simplifies the way > you set custom statuses: you first choose a status,

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 13:40, Luke Benstead wrote: > I agree, once the implementation is complete things will be a lot better, > but I think we can simplify the menu a bit more. I think we should have a > divider between the social networking stuff, and the IM statuses as they are > not related.

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On 29 June 2010 12:21, Conscious User wrote: > > > > Yes, the "broadcast field" is certainly a learnable feature in the > > MeMenu. > > It will make publishing your current thought to the world very > > comfortable, i'm sure. > > But please somebody help me understand why i have a field to public

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

> Yes, the "broadcast field" is certainly a learnable feature in the > MeMenu. > It will make publishing your current thought to the world very > comfortable, i'm sure. > But please somebody help me understand why i have a field to publicly > log my thoughts next to IM presence status settings, w

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

> I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field. > But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still > would have to ask: Say where? To whom? I agree. In fact, seconds after sending the mockup I wondered if it wouldn't confuse users into thinking i

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:19, Conscious User wrote: > See the attached mockup. > great mockup, Conscious!! > > One of the reactions to the mockup will be "we don't > have the menu item for customizing About Me anymore". > Well, quite frankly, it is a "Preferences"-like > item. Isn't those thi

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:36, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > > > One thing that is universal, though, is how they are > > displayed: picture on the left, message to the right > > with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of > > the famil

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > One thing that is universal, though, is how they are > displayed: picture on the left, message to the right > with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of > the familiarity of this layout to make the purpose > of the broadcasting fi

[Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

Hello, So I've been thinking: a big problem with the Me Menu comes from the fact that there is not an universally recognized word for the act of microblogging. There are "tweets", "dents", and Facebook made the rather poor choice of using "status updates" (increasing the confusion with IMs) One