Bryan Clark wrote: >... > The 'Show Desktop' button on the bottom confused a lot of people into > thinking it was a Windows style start button. I got a number of reports > of people clicking on it a lot trying to get the start menu to appear. > I'm planning on removing that from the default for next release.
That would happen no matter what you put in the bottom left corner, no? Having said that, I have *no idea* what that icon is supposed to be. It looks like a photo slide stuck in a pile of mud. At least Ubuntu's looks vaguely like a desktop. :-) (If the home folder was used as the desktop, you could use a Home icon. This would be more recognizable than any desktop icon, though not necessarily more understandable.) >... > The Applications/Places/Desktop button wasn't obvious that it was a > button and instead looked like plain text. I guess requires some theme > fixes or something? I think it requires not having a mixture of buttons, menus with text titles, menus with icon titles, and menus with icon+text titles in the same panel. The word "Desktop" and the mouse-around-the-earth icon are exactly as close to each other as the word "Applications" and the fedora icon, but their relationships are completely different. >... > I'm considering putting the trash applet in the bottom left corner. I look forward to people opening the trash applet expecting to find a Start menu. :-) > I'm not sure why Ubuntu chose the bottom right, maybe they can answer that. > I think it's because that's where the Mac puts it, but I don't know. >... It's also where Windows XP puts it by default (though arranging the icons later moves it over to the left). And, the other three corners are already taken. -- Matthew Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
