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[Peterson Silva <peterson.235@xxxxxxxxx>]

Goddess, this is _very_ neat!! =D

*Peterson*
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On 11 December 2010 23:53, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <
frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 22:40, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyways, for the sake of giving a more complete answer: it should be
>> mentioned that the Me Menu has always been designed to be more
>> functional with respect to microblogging thant it is now:
>>
>>  https://wiki.edubuntu.org/MeMenu#Use%20cases
>>
>
> Reading this spec over again was quite inspiring!
> The first thing that came to my mind, is to conclude the poll for now and
> to focus on the new task at hand:
> - how to merge the messaging menu with the me menu.
>
> the only thing i can see that the two have in common is their social
> context, so i'd brainstorm some titles:
> We Menu
> Social Menu
> People Menu
> Contact Menu
> Communication Menu
> *Me Menu*
>
> after a couple of hours of research on icons, symbols and pictograms for
> "Feed", "Stream" and "Communication", i finally came to realize that the
> combined menu we are looking for will not represent a protocol, a group of
> protocols or a type of communication, it will represent ME in context of my
> social environment, computerized, connected, attentive to hails or occupied
> otherwise.
>
> The purpose of the messaging menu is pretty clear, there is not much to
> discuss. The envelope on top of it doesn't represent the menu's contents
> equally, so this is nothing we would want to transfer to the new proposed
> combined menu.
>
> What we *do* want to preserve is the expressive power of the Me Menu, its
> features:
> * Me
> * Presence
> * Custom Status (publish!)
> * Accounts
>
> normally i'd say Presence belongs in the Session Menu, because the Session
> Menu is not limited to communication and would allow Presence to also affect
> the local system behaviour.
> Now if proposed new Menu stands primarily for "Me" and what "Me" wants,
> there's no problem with keeping Presence in there.
>
> The next step is to condense the functionality of the Messaging Menu into
> the Me Menu, in order to make the best out of it all ;)
>
> we have already isolated the main content, functionality and purpose of the
> messaging menu:
> * Conversation Indicators
>
> now let's merge:
> * Me
> * Presence
> * Custom Status (publish!)
> * Conversation Indicators
> * Accounts
>
> I think everything related to Accounts should be handled in About Me.
> Clicking my Face (top menu item) should open About Me.
> Entering a detail like my instant messaging address for e.g. XMPP should
> connect all the dots for me:
>  * configure chat account
>  * pull contacts and populate Folks
>  * get my last known Avatar and status message
>
> Upon first boot, a wizard should open "About Me", asking me to enter my
> details or to skip.
> anyone?
>
>
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