Fw: The top right thing

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Americans have a very confusing way of mis-using English.  Perhaps they think 
the same about us in the UK ;)  In England we would say 

"... at the very right of the top bar."
or 
"... on the top taskbar/panel at the very far right"
Unfortunately "Far right" is used in politics to mean extremist fascists or 
something.

I do really think we should keep the icon.  It is identical to the symbol used 
on most appliances that people are familiar with.  


I work with a couple of Windows-fanboys and even they managed to click on that 
to try to shut my machine down.  They didn't notice that it was in the exact 
opposite corner!  They did then get confused when the pop-up box appeared and 
wasn't identical to their Windows on/off thing.  3 obvious  icons rather than a 
confusing drop-down seemed to confuse them which i thought was very 
hypocritical.

Have fun all and happy Mondays everywhere ;)
Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc>
To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 1:16:54
Subject: Re: The top right thing

On 2011-04-18 00:51, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2011 5:41 PM, "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <ubuntu at gunnar.cc> wrote:
>> Is it necessary to  name the thing? In the draft page I'm currently
>> working with I just wrote:
>> "the icon at the very right of the <em>top bar</em>"
>>
>> Think that's well as clear guidance as both "session indicator" and
>> "power icon".
>
> My initial thought was using both would be better.  "Click the power
> icon at the very right of the top bar."
> 
> But on reconsideration the power icon may be confused with the battery
> icon

Yeah, which Tom so conveniently demonstrated. :)

> so how about we go with your proposal: "Click the icon at the very
> right of the top bar. "

A grammar detail strikes me now: should it be "_to_ the very right"?
Anybody speaking fluent English who knows for sure?

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson

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