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[Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx>]

The mac native variant doesn't have them anyway. Nor do any other mac apps.
Apple, love or hate them, know UI design.

Looking at acrobat on linux, it uses them, but only for some items, such as
copy and paste but not cut or clear, and it gives the menus an unbalanced
look. If all were there it would likely look cluttered.

This wine/windows kicad on mac, thing that I've got has them, but they
overlap the text and look awful.

My vote: adios menu icons!

Fred.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/24/2011 06:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > On 8/24/2011 5:04 PM, hauptmech wrote:
> >> 16x16 was just a vote, not a demand :). Screen space is the reason.
> >> I like jerry's suggestions.
> >>
> >> I agree with him that all functionality should be in the menus, so that
> >> hiding the toolbars does not hurt functionality. Regarding icons in the
> >> menus, I think it's fine to  remove them.
> > We now have 2 votes for removing the menu images.
>
> Wayne,
>
> I am reluctant to burn the bridge, even if we stop using it.
>
> The reason I say this is because we can quite easily have multiply sized
> images,
> and there will be some image size that will not screw popup menu texts.
>
> So as a path forward, what I suggest is to strive for encapsulation, where
> we
> can control policy in a few lines of code.
>
> Get a menu utility function which makes this decision, and put a single
>
> #if
> #endif
>
> in there, with a build option to control that.
>
> Notice I do not have these sprinkled through the code, only a single policy
> point.
>
> Dick
>
>
>
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