Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-09-23 Thread David Hamm
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Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-08-12 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Hi topdownjimmy, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:04, topdownjimmy topdownji...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com wrote: I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field. But if you just look at that without

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-30 Thread Frederik Nnaji
hi appi On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 23:56, Apoorva Sharma appi2...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-30 Thread Apoorva Sharma
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Frederik Nnaji frederik.nn...@gmail.comwrote: 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.

[Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
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 thing

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
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 field

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:36, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de 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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:19, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com 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.

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
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 it

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
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, while i

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Luke Benstead
On 29 June 2010 12:21, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Remco
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 13:40, Luke Benstead kaz...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Remco
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 14:51, Remco remc...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Conscious User
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 icon is

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Remco
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:04, Conscious User consciousu...@aol.com 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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Igor Vatavuk
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

Re: [Ayatana] Brainstorming the Me Menu again

2010-06-29 Thread Frederik Nnaji
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

2010-06-29 Thread David Hamm
@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. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenuns website btw, took me a while to figure out that you have to