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| = Device menu and user menu = The item closest to the trailing end of the menu bar will be a “device menu”, which contains items for (1) system settings, (2) software updates, (3) attached devices, and (4) session exit except for user account switching. Holding the user account switching items is an adjacent menu, the “user menu”. == Device menu == ||<tablestyle="float:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;" style="border:none;">{{attachment:device-menu.png}}|| Heading up the device indicator as its title is a “power cog” icon, representing both settings and power. === Settings section === In the first section there are items for “System Settings…”, “Monitors…”, “Bluetooth…”, “Login Items…”, and software updates. The first four items launch and/or focus System Settings. “Monitors…”, “Bluetooth…”, and “Login Items…” also navigate to the corresponding settings panel. Software updates are represented by an item that reads “Updates Installing…” if they are, otherwise “Restart to Complete Updates…” if you need to, otherwise “Updates Available…” if there are, otherwise “Software Up to Date”. If the item is in “Restart to Complete Updates…” state, both it and the menu title are red, and activating the item opens the standard restart confirmation alert. In all other cases, activating the item launches and/or focuses Update Manager. === Devices section === Starting the second section is an an always-insensitive “Attached Devices” header. This is followed by “Printers”, which opens either system-config-printer or the System Settings Printing panel ([[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-system-config-printer-vs-gnome-3-control-center|whichever Ubuntu has at the time]]). Next comes one item if there are any attached scanners, which launches and/or focuses Simple Scan. Finally, there is one item if there are any detected webcams; that item launches and/or focuses Cheese. === Session section === At the end of the menu are commands for when you want to stop using the computer: “Lock Screen”, “Log Out…”, “Sleep”, and “Shut Down…”. Instead of a separate “Restart…” item, the confirmation alert for “Shut Down…” contains a “Restart” button. {{attachment:shut-down.png}} == User menu == {{attachment:user-menu.png}} Beside the device menu, on its leading side, is a “user menu”. As its title, the user menu has a user icon plus the login name of the current user account. “Switch User Account…” is the first item in the menu, followed by radio items with icons for up to 20 of the most recently used human user accounts in the menu. User accounts that are currently logged in have a custom checkmark graphic at their trailing end. And the user account you are currently using has a radio mark. Divided by a separator, the last item in the menu is “Online Accounts…”, which launches and/or focuses System Settings and switches to its Online Accounts panel. == Unresolved issues == * Bringing settings, software updates, devices, and session exit together is an odd mixture, and we have not done any testing of whether people can understand or remember what is and is not in the menu. * The device indicator is very long. * While most session exit items are in the device menu, “Switch User Account…” is not. It is odd that “Lock Screen” and “Switch User Account…” in particular are in different menus. |
DeviceMenuAndUserMenu (last edited 2013-12-19 16:28:50 by mpt)