Re: [Usability]Icons in Menus

[Per Cederberg <per percederberg net>]

A third option is to actually have icons for some menu items, but not 
for all. Putting icons in front of some menu items, makes these more 
visible and easy to find. If only very common operations (such as copy, 
cut, paste) have icons, menu navigation might actually be easier.

Of course, this would have to be used consistently throughout all 
applications, and not so common operations (such as quit or about) 
should not have icons.

Anyway, this was just a thought. I'm not really proposing this. (And it 
is sort of how menu icons are used in Gnome, at least in some programs.)

/Per

Seth Nickell wrote:
> 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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