Re: [Usability] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Alfonso de Cala
> The GNOME Main Menu works like the Windows Start Menu, but is split into > three. The branding logo comes with the prominently positioned Main Menu > applet (which makes sense), but it just happened to be stitched to the first > entry (which doesn't make sense). I was actually thinking about how

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread David Siegel
In Unity, the Ubuntu button toggles the Dash. In GNOME Shell, we could do as David Hamm suggests and "weld" an Ubuntu logo there for consistency with UNE. We could even replace the word "Activities" with the Ubuntu button. David On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Hamm wrote: > "I don't thi

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On 2010-06-21, David Siegel wrote: > In Unity, the Ubuntu button toggles the Dash. > > In GNOME Shell, we could do as David Hamm suggests and "weld" an Ubuntu logo > there for consistency with UNE. We could even replace the word "Activities" > with the Ubuntu button. > > David the current single

Re: [Usability] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:47:17 +0800 Allan Caeg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The distro logo is a logical requirement for a default desktop setup > for branding purposes (and maybe some others). Where should it be, I can understand its a good spot for distro branding, but I don't see that it has

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Jarlath Reidy
Aesthetically speaking, I can only imagine the logo looking respectable in a corner. Or at least, I'm having a hard time imagining it anywhere else and look credible. I think it's fine as it is, but it's an interesting idea. The systems mentioned ( Mac and Windows ), they are positioned in the mos

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 21 Jun 2010, at 15:51, Jarlath Reidy wrote: > > 4) I like the number four, but I can't think of and idea to put here. That would probably be "don't show a distro logo on the desktop at all (except maybe in the default background where it's under the user's control) because it adds little or