Re: a nice touch from kde's kicker

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:32, Lee J. Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 18:04, Len Philpot wrote:
> > I guess I'm different - Personally, I'd like to lose _all_ the menu
> > icons completely and just go with minimal text on the menus... Plus, I
> > have to believe the menus will paint faster that way.
> 
> It's sometimes difficult to remember that GTK+ is an offshoot of The
> Gimp when you consider that the whole Gnome environment looks so bland
> by default when installed with many distributions.
> 
> I agree with a few points in this thread about the KDE menu screenshot
> (particularly the relationship between the icon and the text being
> broken), but I'd hazard a guess that the menu is not compulsory or even
> part of the 'first-installed' KDE3 setup.
> 
> That's the point really, provided it's optional, I wouldn't have a
> problem with it.  Anything that makes Gnome look more hip & happening -
> out of the box - would be welcomed provided the eye-candy is
> turn-offable for those who don't want it.


I think that better belongs with the distributors... Ximian, Redhat,
Solaris, or whoever installed GNOME on the machine.

> 
> Regards :-)
> -- 
> Lee J. Moore