text: it as a menuitem in the user menu. Both of these have some drawbacks (the favourite does not display any text, leaving the user to guess from the icon, the user menu requires a gnome-shell patch). An alternative
  Hmm, is there a reason why the favourite icons don't have anything resembling tooltips? It's kinda annoying that there's no way to figure out what an icon starts unless you click on it. I for example was wondering about the shotwell icon (which is apparently enabled by default) what it was for until i clicked on it. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.