Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >in general, you should also question the icons usage: overloading the UI with visual cues ends up distracting the >user, and in general the written word is more apt to describe actions than a bare icon, unless the icon is >unequivocally tied to a specific action (e.g. standard images). One should not forget that smaller freeware programs tend to be available in only one language, usually English. And for the majority of people English is not the main language. Therefore for all users not good in English GUI icons can be a big help. Also when you have long menus, menu icons help to more quickly locate the item you want, even for the author of the software himself. So I disagree that icons could be distracting is a valid reason not to use them. And I'm annoyed that Ubuntu has switched off menu and button icons by default. Manuel _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
