Re: [Usability] Programmer needed for minimal and basic design for GNOME HIG experiment

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 5 Mar 2006, at 11:57, Christian Neumair wrote:
> My personal opinion is that it would be very, very interesting to test
> how quickly people find a particular function with icons completely
> turned off, with icons turned on only for a particular selection of
> functions, where the likelyhood that a particular function is needed
> should be incorporated, and with icons turned on for all menu entries.

Also, bearing in mind that the original function of menu icons (when  
they were introduced on Windows) was to indicate menu items that also  
appeared on the toolbar, it might be interesting to investigate  
whether any users find that to be an efficacious model, or whether  
they just expect to see icons for everything/nothing/"important" things.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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