On 05/03/11 02:42, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 03/04/2011 08:53 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
Some time ago, GNOME decided that "menus and icons having icons is confusing" (though a great deal of people said "hey, icons are easier to recognize than texts").
Personally, I disagree and reverted this to the previous behaviour. I found most people I know either did the same thing, or asked me how to do it.
I disagree as well.
I realize that following mainstream GNOME is usually the preferred choice inside fedora, however, I really believe that we should consider if this particular option is the best. Menus and Buttons with no icons? I can't think of many other places I've seen such a thing, icons are REALLY easier to recognize than texts, that's what GUI are for.
With the move to Gnome 3 this discussion is moot. None of it matters any more.
You're in for a shock with all the Gnome 3 changes if you think no menu icons are bad. :)
I suggest you download the latest F15 alpha and start discussions on the desktop list.
I realize the transition to Gnome 3 in F15, but this change affects everyone, even if I don't use gnome (any version), but use pidgin, or some other GTK-based software.
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
I realize the transition to Gnome 3 in F15, but this change affects everyone, even if I don't use gnome (any version), but use pidgin, or some other GTK-based software.
If you use the KDE Plasma Desktop workspace and have xsettings-kde installed, there should be icons on the menus (always, this is not optional in KDE) and buttons (unless you disabled that setting in KDE, it's enabled by default, and xsettings-kde applies the KDE setting to GTK+ apps), if not, file a bug against xsettings-kde (or against the app if it isn't setting the icon at all, it should be setting it and letting GTK+ decide whether to show it or not).
Kevin Kofler