-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7U/fsACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoklACgm7DfJpPmAfLlwi3CvghlNLhl D6oAn2Ne/GMuQLVKZxLZwmyNIvWjaREn =I9jj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
