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[Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I think it's useful to get a discussion going every now and then about
certain UX paradigms, no matter how small (we're all about attention to
detail, right?)

I really don't like the AppMenu icon. The concept is great - Android uses
something very similar in the overflow menu, and other operating systems
probably do too. It's a fantastic way to hide less commonly used buttons to
stop the toolbar getting too cluttered. However, the cog icon doesn't make
any sense to me. It sends the message of "Settings/Preferences" to the
user, and this is *not *the only thing that the AppMenu is for. It houses
About pages, functions (e.g. "Rescan music folder") and more.

It would make more sense to change the icon to something similar to
Chrome's "3 line" icon (http://i.imgur.com/ryKKG.png) which conveys the
message much better.

We should ideally try to do this before Luna, since the AppMenu is such a
core part of the OS, and we don't want to alienate the flocks of new Luna
users in L+1 by changing it then ;)

Thoughts?

Sam Tate