Re: Appearance properties

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:55 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> > While I generally trust designers in their judgement and I agree that
> > there was an icon overload, I now often feel a lack of icons. My menu
> > usage has slowed down because I now have to read everything instead of
> > being able to rely on icons.
> A good example of slowed down usage is Inkscape.  Open the Path menu and
> you have to read most of them to actually find "Division" where it used
> to be a quickly identifiable by its icon (not to mention that the
> difference between Division and Exclusion was better served by an icon).

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589584 was a bug report
against eog, to always show icon for rotate/flip menu items, the same
rationale could be applied to many Inkscape menu items.

I quote Andreas in the bug report :

  (...) but I think it's one of those cases that falls under " or if
  it makes the items in that menu segment very much more recognizable."
  as rotate clockwise could need some visualization in order to show
  what it means


Cheers,

        Frederic