On 12/08/10 07:52, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > for the advantages the new Places will bring it might be an attractive > undertaking, yet the primary place for contacts IMO should be the > human memory, where the most valuable and important contacts are > permanently being kept alive through human social interaction. > > More important than a Places > Contacts is, according to this logic, > an intelligent Contact Menu. > > Ayatana already has: > * Messaging Menu > * Networking Menu > * Me Menu > * Power Menu > > hopefully soon also "Contact Menu". > On the other hand, i'm moving away from the concept of Contacts as a > Place: The Dash is a much better place for managing sets of data than a menu is. Menus should have a fairly constrained set of alternatives, to make them efficient to render and use. With the Dash, we have a much "bigger" space, that's visually richer. Let's stick with Contacts in the Dash. Mark
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