On 13 Aug 2008, at 00:31, Glynn Foster wrote: > I'm not sure I agree having 2 network status icons there is a good > thing - I know there is a slight difference, and if it's just a > temporary workaround, then I'm fine with that. I don't think there's a > need for both, personally.
It's a temporary measure for NWAM Phase 0.5-- we're tweaking the gnome- netstatus applet to do some of the things that the NWAM notification icon will eventually take care of on its own. So it does add a bit more clutter than we'd like, but it probably does makes sense to show both for this release. When NWAM Phase 1 rolls out, the gnome-netstatus applet won't be there by default, although it will still be available to add if you want to. > I'd also like some good rationale for why the input method > notification icon is added by default when I'm running in an English > locale - it seems meaningless to me (and not a very good user > experience to see the window display at first login, then jump up to > the panel when it starts). Well, I probably shouldn't have shown that icon in the mockup, as it doesn't appear in the C locale, which I guess is what the spec ought to be defining. I agree with you in general, though-- I seem to remember discussions about this before, but I don't recall the details, and it's not an area I have enough experience in to suggest an alternative solution. Perhaps you could file a couple of appropriate bugs to get things rolling? :) > I notice the difference in pixels between the notification icons, and > the launch icons on the left hand side is different. I'm not sure I > agree with 6px - it seems a large amount. Perhaps; I'll play with it a bit more and see if we can tweak it down a bit. > I think I'd also like to see the Next Steps icon being different. > While I can appreciate the association that it's going to launch > Firefox to display, we're not getting 'Firefox Next Steps', but > OpenSolaris ones. As the spec says, all visuals are subject to change. I'm sure we can rely on branding to come up with something more attractive in time for the release :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
