Re: Revisit "your name on the top bar"

[Matthew East <mdke ubuntu com>]

On 5 July 2011 14:52, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:54 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
>>     1a. FWIW, Ubuntu users almost universally refer to it as "the me
>>         menu"
>
> Not surprising. Absent other terms being given to them, people will
> just use the names of the closest thing they can find. The user menu
> has aspects of both the me menu and the power menu though.

Just as a clarification, I think that this terminology is used because
the designers/developers coined it, rather than the users.

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu

In Ubuntu's help, it is occasionally referred to using that name with
a hyperlink to an explanation of the menus and their names (e.g.
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-help/net-chat-social.html). But I
don't think that the Ubuntu documentation team evolved a fixed policy
for this type of thing. We had a discussion similar to this one in
relation to the so-called "Session Menu"
(https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2011-April/015640.html)
although I don't think a conclusion was reached or a decision taken.

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Matthew East
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