Separating the different aspects of the personal menu seems like a good idea indeed.
And I think the changes in the Central theme that @Arkshine highlighted go into the right direction.
There’s three things I would add:
- I think that personal messages should get their separate space, too (well, fundamentally I believe chat and personal messages should be merged into one thing, but that’s another story)
- At least for me, even in the Central theme, I still get bookmarks in the notification menu (screenshot below), and I feel they belong either only to the user menu (as proposed by the OP) or to the side bar (if the user menu is to become a “profile/setting only” thing).
- While we’re at it: since “replies”, “likes”, “badges”, etc. are effectively filters on the full notification list, they IMO should go to the top of the notification area (or maybe just be discarded completely).
