fast-user-switch-applet

[Mat Tomaszewski]

Martin Soto wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:29 +0000, Mat Tomaszewski wrote:
>   
>> Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
>>     
>>> quote from the blog:
>>> "A couple of people have said that the menu looks “sparse” or “bare”
>>>       
> ...
>   
>> I've got my part in the decision to remove the icons from the fusa 
>> applet and I can see why it is controversial. I think part of that comes 
>> from the fact that almost all other menus use icons, and there seems to 
>> be lack of consistency.
>>     
>
> The lack of consistency doesn't bother me, and I don't have any serious
> aesthetic concerns with the menu, either. Still, I have personally noted
> that I continuously have problems when using it. They may arise from the
> fact that I was used to the older one, and grew accustomed to look for
> the proper icon (which is faster) instead of reading through the
> options. With this version, I always have to read the options carefully,
> in order to make sure that I'm picking the right one. 

Thanks, that's a very useful feedback. I agree it is a potential 
downside and my feeling is that it can be the case for many users. We 
haven't got any "hard" data to back it up, but the general notion tends 
to suggest that it is an inconvenience.


> Indeed it happened
> to me already a few times that I was in a hurry and selected the wrong
> option. This can be quite bad, specially given the current broken state
> of the GNOME session manager.
>
> Of course, this is just anecdote so far, but it looks to me this may be
> one of those cases where actual user testing would make a difference.
>   

:)

Mat