Re: [Usability] Re: a nice touch from kde's kicker

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 05:19, Calum Benson wrote:
> Josh Steiner wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.kde.org/screenshots/large/kde3-snapshot1.jpg
> > 
> > I just wanted to throw this little piece of food for though out there, I
> > really like the way that in this screenshot kicker puts the program icons
> > on a separate background color than the text, this seems to make the menu
> > more readable to my eye.  What do people think of this from a useability
> > standpoint?
> 
> I don't think it works, personally... it completely breaks the
> relationship between the icon and the associated text, IMHO.

Not just YHO; MHO, too. :) At first (particularly with the icons
so small and close together, and having different shapes) I wasn't 
even sure they were lined up with the menu items.