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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Matt Richardson wrote on 18/11/11 21:03:
> 
> 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.


That's not what it looks like. They look like tabs.

> 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').


It wouldn't be obvious that they did one thing when hovered over, and
a different thing when clicked.

> 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)


People vary widely in the speed with which they use menus.

> 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.


What is the rationale for showing people you're chatting with twice?
(Once in the list of messages, and once in the chat tab.)

> Other menu options would behave as now (change status, open chat 
> window with selected content)
> 
> Any thoughts/issues? Matt
> 
> ...


The crosses for clearing individual messages look interesting. Maybe
they could be incorporated into the existing messaging menu.

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