Icons in Xfce Menu

[Marcus Moeller]

Hi all,

>>>> 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.

I still think both things make a difference. E.g. an icon of an envelope 
can be easily associated with an eMail application, an icon of a Folder 
can be associated with a file manager. Of course that's not the case for 
all icons, but for many.

Greets
Marcus