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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 June 2010 12:21, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> > Yes, the "broadcast field" is certainly a learnable feature in the
> > MeMenu.
> > It will make publishing your current thought to the world very
> > comfortable, i'm sure.
> > But please somebody help me understand why i have a field to publicly
> > log my thoughts next to IM presence status settings, while i can't
> > even inform my contacts about why exactly i do not want to be
> > disturbed right now..
> >
> > I still don't understand the idea behind this configuration..
>
>
> The MeMenu always had both broadcasting and custom IM status in
> the specification:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu
>
> In fact, you can see that the custom status part is supposed to
> be quite rich in details. The implementation just needs to be
> completed, which IIRC is supposed to happen in Maverick.
>
>
I agree, once the implementation is complete things will be a lot better,
but I think we can simplify the menu a bit more. I think we should have a
divider between the social networking stuff, and the IM statuses as they are
not related. Also, I'm not entirely sure why we need the name on the me menu
when there is a name on the Me-menu button itself. I've attached a hacked up
version of MPTs mockup from the wiki page.

Luke.

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