Re: Dropping the "Interface" tab from appearance capplet

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 14:11 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > 3) This seems to be a good compromise between "icons only" and "icons
> > > and text"
> > 
> > I beg to differ on this.
> > 
> > Icon only is clearly not an option by default, since it is mostly for
> > "expert" or "powerusers". So, the only "by default" options are "icons
> > and text" and "text beside icons"
> 
> Again, "icons only" cannot possibly be an expert option. Toolbars are
> supposed to be for commonly used commands, which you learn by looking at
> tooltips (I think there are studies available to prove this, but I don't
> remember where right now).
> 
I thought the real relationship that make users distinguish toolbar
icons is the icon itself, which is the same as in the menu. But we are
getting no icons now in menus also, right?


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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>