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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/2/11 Michael T <<a href="mailto:raselmsh@hotmail.com">raselmsh@hotmail.com</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>I'm sorry, I am short of sleep at the moment and sent this without a subject.<br><br>=== Reposted message===================================================<br>
Hello,<br><br>I originally posted this as a wishlist item on Launchpad, but was advised to send it to the appropriate<br>mailing list (so I hope that this is it :) ). Something which slightly annoys me in Ubuntu (and more<br>
generally in KDE and Gnome) is the overuse of icons in menus. Most (if not all) GUI style guidelines<br>recommend only using icons in menus where they are instantly recognisable to the user, so that they can<br>identify the menu entry from the icon faster than they would be able to read the menu text. See for<br>
instance<br><a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/chapter_17_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000356-TPXREF116" target="_blank">http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/chapter_17_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000356-TPXREF116</a>.<br>
In other situations, the icon slows the user down, as they will automatically look at the icon before they<br>read the text. If you look at for example the "K" menu in Kubuntu, you will see that every menu entry,<br>
including every application listed, has an icon next to it, which to my mind makes it look somewhat<br>unprofessional.<br>Does anyone else have thoughts on this? I realise of course that in many cases this is something that can<br>
only be fixed upstream, but I wanted to start a discussion somewhere :)<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Michael<br><br>BTW, please excuse the messy hotmail formatting - this is my "disposable" address for posting to mailing<br>
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<div><br>Michael,</div>
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<div>I actually find it more annoying to not have an icon. For example, in my Gutsy build w/ KDE4 running I have Konsole showing up as kde4-konsole withouth the icon in the Application Launcher. To me this is more annoying and unproffesional looking then having the icon there. But its probablly something I did that has changed my system that way.</div>
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<div>Jonathan</div>