Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:03:17 +0000
From: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ayatana] More information in indicator menus
Recently Ian Santopietro made some mockups for how Unity might look on
a phone or a desktop.
I love the way his phone indicators look and the amount of information
they show and I think we should migrate them to the desktop. I have
done a mockup below to show how they would display:
Mockup<http://ubuntuone.com/3pQaNx9TdpPXEZHMIjPgdP>
Clicking an indicator would show the menu as now.
Clicking a message would load the appropriate window (email, chat etc).
Clicking the Email/Chat/Broadcast icons would load the appropriate program.
Hovering over the Email/Chat/Broadcast icons for 0.3 seconds, see
later) would display the extra options currently available in the menu
(i.e. Hovering over the Email button would display options for 'Compose
new message' and 'Contacts').
The 0.3 second delay on hovering is simply to prevent accidental
switching between categories when moving the mouse to select an option
under the current category (e.g. The user tries to change their status
to 'Busy', but as they move their mouse down, they pass over the
Broadcast icon and the menu changes)
If the person you are chatting with has a profile picture, this would
be displayed instead of the blank avatar in the menu or the chat symbol
in the notification area.
Other menu options would behave as now (change status, open chat window
with selected content)
Any thoughts/issues?
Matt
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