Re: [Usability]Icons in Menus

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

My personal feeling is that icons are good... if every menu item has an
icon (see Microsoft Word). If some do and some don't, it becomes much
harder to look for the items that don't, and you also get a ragged edge
that you can't just scan right down. If you don't have icons for every
item, I think I'm moderately inclined to say we shouldn't be displaying
any.

-Seth

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 06:51, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> I don't know if this has been discussed or not (if so please point me to
> the discussion), but i find the default preference of icons in menus
> very unappealing. For one not all menu items have icons so menus end up
> looking incomplete. Furthermore, the additional icons make identifying
> checkboxes and radio buttons harder as they get lost in the noise of the
> other menu icons.
> 
> If no one objects I will file a bug with libgnomeui requesting a change
> of the default preference. I should also note that the mac and windows
> do not have icons in their menus.
> 
> dave
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