Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> 1) GtkOptionMenu is deprecated.
> 2) GtkComboBox makes it very difficult to add icons to the drop-down.

These two are valid points.

> 3) The icons were a total hack anyway, and broke a11y functionality
> 4) We have too many icons in use in the desktop, and so I, as well as
>    the artists who maintain the icons, want to reduce that number
> 5) To help separate the controls within the dialog for managing the
>    wallpapers and properties on them, and the buttons for the dialog

These I have a hard time buying.

Taking this from the opposite approach, how on earth is a user supposed 
to know the difference between "Scaled" and "Fill Screen" without that 
little icon to show what's going to happen?

I personally find the "tiled" icon very helpful, as well as the "Add" 
and "Remove" icons. They tell me a lot, help me make a quick decision.

The gradient icons are less useful, but they show a little preview of 
what will happen without the composed textured like in the larger 
preview icons. They are needed.

It used to be that adding icons to interfaces would help "dumb users" 
(or me on a Monday morning). Now we're being told the opposite?

--Pat