Re: Revisit "your name on the top bar"

[Joshua Wulf <jwulf redhat com>]

Apart from the question of "what name to use", the "single point of definition" pattern is good. One consistent name for an item, with a link to the definition - then if the appearance or location of the item changes, the definition only needs to be updated in one place, and voila! the docs are still good. 

- Josh

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On 06/07/2011, at 1:48 AM, Matthew East <mdke ubuntu com> wrote:

> 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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