Fw: The top right thing

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>  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 :)
>
>
As much as I would like to call it, "the top right thing," the Ayatana folks
have confirmed it as the "Session Menu."

https://wiki.edubuntu.org/SessionMenu

I'm still working on some intro docs, but hopefully taking some time to
explain the different menus in the start will help to clear things up.

Jim
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