Re: iconless apps



Le jeu 18/04/2002 à 16:16, Alex Larsson a écrit :
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> > 	At the moment if an app doesn't supply an icon in its .desktop
> > file, it gets display with no icon ... This is being discussed in
> > 
> > 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76495
> > 
> > 	and I want to get a consensus soon
> > 
> > 	+ Do not display apps without an icon
> > 	+ Display a default icon for theses apps
> > 	+ Leave it the way it is presently
> > 
> > 	The pros and cons of each option have been discussed in the
> > bug report ..
> > 
> > 	Thoughts anyone ?
> 
> I think not showing an icon is best. That will give incentive for the app 
> developer to add an icon, and a default icon does not actually give you 
> any information. It just clutters up the menu. Especially if you have 
> several items in a menu without icons and they all get the same default 
> icon.

Agreed.. KDE is using a default icon which is extremely ugly when no
icon is available (therefore our KDE packager need to ensure all
applications have a good looking icon in our menus :((

-- 
Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft




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