unity-design team mailing list archive

[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Frederik, I think you are confusing things. Vish didn't say the 
intention was
to eliminate each and every textual information possible, just the 
tooltips.

The bad situation is when an unclear icon tries to solve its 
unclearness by
adding a tooltip. The problem is extra, unnecessary text, not text 
itself.

Some indicators are better being textual, like indicator-datetime. I 
personally
don't see anything wrong with that.


-----Original Message-----
From: frederik.nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
To: vish <vish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ayatana-dev <ayatana-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Ayatana List 
<ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Oct 21, 2010 12:26 am
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] [Ayatana-dev] Unity and tooltips

instead we chose to use symbolic icons?why does the appmenu consist of 
words still?this is totally inconsistent with the other indicators and 
makes nosense from a interaction point of view.if we are trying to 
replace blunt primary school orthography withmetaphors in formal 
symbolic language, we ought to make one bold stepaway from clinging to 
vertically stacked text-based menus as thesolution to 
everything.designing a menu structure in UML might justify the 
excessive use ofwritten language, yet the goal is to afford unique 
andsimple-as-possible objects for each interaction possibility.i 
suggest using symbolic icons for "File", "Edit" and especially"View" in 
indicator appmenu.