Re: Always show icons for Create Document submenu

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 15:03 +0100, comicinker wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.11.2009, 12:49 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:53 +0100, Luca wrote:
> > > Filed as bug #602909
> > > 
> > > Now that GNOME has switched to no-menu-icon default, to match
> > > guidelines[1] Nautilus should enable "always show" properties for
> > > entries in Create Document submenu.
> > > 
> > > The lack of icons here is an usability issue: there is no way to
> > > identify the file type you are going to create, due the strip of
> file
> > > name extension.
> > 
> > Yeah, this sounds right. And its should be a simple fix too. Anyone
> > interested in hacking this up?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I don't understand the problem. When I right-click in a folder an
> choose
> "Create document" I can see the correct Icons for the documents I want
> to create. I put some files (oowriter etc.) in the template directory.
> And it works.

In gnome 2.28 the default was changed to not show icons by default. 
Unless you have the 
/desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons gconf key set manually.


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