Re: [Usability]Re: [Usability]¨Dialog buttons have icons¨ gone?

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:44, bordoley msu edu wrote:

> I tend to agree with you actually (both mac and windows don't add icons to 
> buttons or in the menus). Anyone know how hard it would be to change default? 
> (or is there some long flamewar i should be aware of?)

I don't recall any particular flamewar, I guess people just like having
as much eye-candy as possible :)  IMHO though they're mostly
distracting, space-hogging, and make dialogs that include a mixture of
buttons with and without icons look kind of half-finished...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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