Re: removing non-working things

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 7/30/06, Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:

> > If there is a need to fill the void, we could add a "Show icons in
> > buttons" checkbox instead, since this is a feature that works reliably
> > everywhere...
>
> Does it?  Maybe it is no longer a problem anymore but a long time ago when
> developers were experimenting with "show icons on buttons" things didn't
> work out well for buttons with only an icon and no text label.
>
> Applications which had used a row of buttons without text instead of a
> proper toolbar ended up with blank useless buttons.

GTK+ is smarter about this now; image-only buttons will not loose
their images.