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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 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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