On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:46, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 21/06/10 10:42, James Putt wrote:
I agree colour is significant. I was considering that the
top menu by convention is monochromatic with certain colours having a
particular meaning, and how having different icons in the drop down
menu to the icons representing the menu would play out.
In order to avoid the panel going gaudy, and to
keep colour
significant, we should only use colour for "off-nominal and
exceptional" situations.
yes one can indicate presence status without color, see here:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Icon_Metaphors
yet the first thing is to replace the bubbles in the MeMenu with symbolic icons that represent not solely chat.
So we need to think carefully about whether
being offline is an "alert" condition or not. I don't really think it
is.
Online/offline status doesn't belong into the Me Menu.
The statuses the MeMenu wants to indicate, IIRC, are presence status and sign-in status of social services, not online status.
Offline/Online belongs somewhere else.
Martin Owens registered a blueprint for this last year, you can find it here:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lucid-online-status