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[Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it's worth revisiting; however, I believe that we'll be pushing to
get rid of that menu entirely in as many places as possible in the near
future. Instead, we'll focus on more contextual preferences and more
intelligent defaults. I kind of think changing it for Luna and then phasing
it put soon after would be unnecessary.
On Sep 30, 2012 3:59 PM, "Keith Adair" <kjzz12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think we'd be taking a major risk in changing that icon. To me, that cog
> has grown to be an iconic symbol of the elementary project, along with the
> two iterations of the "e" logo. It signifies simplification; that this
> program is so simple that it only requires on simple sub menu for options.
> A "lines" logo to me seems generic, and lacking in personality. The cog IS
> elementary, and has been since the meager days of elementary-nautilus. It
> seems to me that I would rather miss the little cog in exchange for a
> generic icon.
> On Sep 30, 2012 1:34 PM, "Craig" <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I agree, Sam. I think this also highlights the importance of clearly
>> defining the intentional function for various UI components. Perhaps it
>> would be useful to separate out the various pieces of functionality into an
>> "overflow" component and a "settings" component (or separate out the
>> functionality differently).
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Sam Tate <s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
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