Re: Revisiting App Menu

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 10:06:36PM +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
> rather compare it with some office apps, where there is a small icon at the
> very left of the menu. it took me some time to figure out that these things
> are not just decoration. and I still don't like them, because even though an
> image can say a thousand words, it can also say zero. (and a thousand words
> can be meaningless :) ).

find it kind of nice in applix where using the star you can find some
non-program specific items fast

> > Let's make our system menu fun.
> 
> we already have the foot in the panel. I believe that the same icon should
> ONLY ever be used for the same purpose, not for everything remotely gnome. I
> also think the users will be confused if the small foot does totally
> different things than the large one.

if I DID have some new pixmaps I WON'T use any foot except for the menu one
since I think that i's confusing to have both drawers and menus have feet in
them ... so it WOULD serve the same purpose ... a foot means menu ...

if I do get any time left after work and panel hacking I'll code up some test
case for this ...

George

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