Icons in the fast-user-switching menu: mock
Matthew Paul Thomas
mpt at canonical.com
Mon Nov 17 10:49:50 GMT 2008
Hi Manu
On Nov 15, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Manu Cornet wrote:
> ...
> The new Shutdown/Suspend/etc. actions in the top-right
> fast-user-switching applet look great! However, I was wondering if
> adding icons next to the menu items (as we usually do in GNOME) would
> be a good idea? Or do you think it would add too much clutter?
One of the things that makes Gnome in general look messy and unpolished
is that almost every menu item has an icon -- and where an item
doesn't, it's not for any reason relevant to users, it's because nobody
has drawn one. (Sometimes they haven't had time to, but other times
there just is no possible understandable icon.) And as far as I know,
there is no empirical evidence that using icons in a typical pull-down
menu makes them faster to use.
Upstream we're currently considering how to reduce the number of icons
in menus. <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557469>
Meanwhile, as Baptiste pointed out, we do use icons for the various IM
statuses (because for those, we're fairly confident icons *do* help you
recognize the item you want more quickly). It's a bit awkward that
they're on the right rather than the left, but the rationale is to line
them up exactly with the equivalent icon in the panel itself.
Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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