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[Thibaut Brandscheid <randaltor@xxxxxx>]

2011/8/2 Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  <http://pad.lv/815077>If the desire is to reduce menu
> option clutter, I suggest keeping the option as Shut Down (or Power
> Off might be a good descriptive alternative). And then use a pop-up
> like Gnome Shell to allow Restart, Shutdown (automatic after 60
> seconds), or Cancel. See http://i.imgur.com/lLPoL.png
>

Sounds good :)

Moving on to the user menu, Online Accounts is not a very useful menu
> item.
>

For me the UserMenu seems to be the new MeMenu → most people won't use it
because it contains none useful items for them but takes "a lot of screen
space". I would prefer an 'Accounts' entry in the SystemMenu to switch to
other accounts and in the system settings an entry 'Online Accounts' (since
I have to configure it only once - there is no need to access it often).

For the device section of the SystemMenu I suggest to use icons and put them
in a row (saves space - same functionality). Most times you know the devices
plugged into your computer so an icon will indicate it sufficiently without
cluttering the menu to much.

Kind Regards
Thibaut