On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 03:53, Apoorva Sharma <appi2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > To me, insensitive items are very dangerous. The only use case should be > for expressing functionality that has been disabled by a user action, that > is, insensitive items should appear to the user without the user making them > so. Otherwise, the user is only confused about how the functionality will be > enabled, or wonder why space is being wasted by this unnecessary item. Items > that have no functionality until the user enables them should simply not be > shown until enabled. > yeah, insensitive items have their disadvantages. In this particular case, the advantage is, that you know where to find them, and you can verify that, even when they are disabled. A central point for broadcasting about "Me", setting the Presence state for "Me" and changing information and account settings for "Me" is a viable concept, that can help the novice user find her way through Ubuntu's DE. > For the MeMenu, I think that there should be a button to turn on chat, and > only when turned on should the state changing buttons be shown. With this > system, showing "offline" is unnecessary, because that would simply mean > turning chat off, and thus the on/off switch would provide the > functionality. > if the ON/OFF switch you are proposing (i like) were to be positioned above the insensitive state items, it would be easy to discover how Presence items and "Chat ON/OFF" relate.. In that case, it wouldn't be absolutely necessary to hide the Presence items, when Chat is off. Personally, i can imagine both cases to be cool..
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