Icons in Xfce Menu

[Sergio]

On 10/06/2012 11:43 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>>> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:33:28 -0600
>>> From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>
>>> To: xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> Subject: Re: Icons in Xfce Menu
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>>>
>>> Yeah, sorry I missed this thread.
>>>
>>> It's default that way in 4.10.
>>>
>>> I think to allow menus to map faster...
>>>
>>> Do people feel strongly about changing the default?
>>> Adding icons it will make the menus slower and use more memory.
>>>
>>> I personally don't feel too strongly about it one way or the other,
>>> but tend to just want to follow upstream where sensible. ;)
>
> Disabling the icons in the menu does not really make it load faster,
> even on low-spec machines (I have tried that on an old single-core Atom).
>
> Icons are a good help for finding items in menus. I most often refer to
> menu position and icon when I am opening menu entries I already know.
>
> For someone who does not know what a program name means, icons are also
> a good orientation.
>
> I agree with you that following upstream is a good idea in general, but
> not in this case. This is a position I share with nearly all other Xfce
> Distros that ship 4.10. I personally know not one which disables icons
> in menus.
>
> Greets
> Marcus

I must check on the live-cd but for a completely new user, no icons 
don't make much difference but tooltips do.
For people that are familiar with the Linux apps icons make it faster to 
localize them.

Maybe it isn't the case with the app selection and icon theme on the 
spin but with many apps or depending on the icon theme it can delay 
loading. But overall as Raphael said, this particular setting seems to 
have not much weight when much resources are used by other things like 
system services.