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.
My vote: adios menu icons!
Fred.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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
