From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 Description of problem: The Applications menu has an icon at it's left (fedora logo). But Places and System have no icons. Enhance user interaction be allowing a wave of the (magic wand) mouse over the text/icon to drop the menu down (yes: without a click)! The three texts do not look as if they are buttons for clicking (to a first timer). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. default install. 2. login to desktop. 3. put mouse over the application/places/system text. Actual Results: You see|fedora icon applications|places|system|web icon etc. The text require clicking (why would anyone click text: it's just writing, not a button...). 3. nothing happens. Expected Results: See a representative icon for each of places and system. 3. Running the mouse over the buttons at least highlites it or even cooler, automatically drops the menu. sub menus etc can then by navigated, before a final click to run an app/tool. Additional info: The three texts do not look as if they are buttons for clicking (to a first time user). Some ideas: fedora logo: should go to a tip of the day / cool things to do with fedora website etc...fedora-project site? applications: the things that get work done, maybe a mini college of some well known applications... places: with the new fedora bubbling/logos, and the open-sharing frame of mind, places could be represented as something like the world with two hands about to shake; somehow bringing together all sorts of resources. the world at the fedora users' command... system: represent a PC looking icon; maybe have a group of basic PC looking icons for notebook/desktop/tower/rack server and use which ever one suits the machine detected (might be confusing for users between machines).
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I still consider providing icons attached to the standard gnome menus would make them that little clearer. Changing to exists in F7 {I haven't looked at F8test/devel}.
Note that maintenance for Fedora 7 will end 30 days after the GA of Fedora 9.
Look, this applies to F8 and F9, because no changes were made. However, closing INSUFFICIENT_WILL_TO_MAKE_AN_IMPROVEMENT is reasonable ;-)