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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

I enabled the images -- They do take up screen area on my small-screen
Mac Air.

Maybe on a Cinema 30, I would leave them turned on, but am now tempted
to disable them.

Bob G

On 01/23/2015 02:59 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 1/23/2015 11:15 AM, jp charras wrote:
> > Le 23/01/2015 17:08, Bob Gustafson a écrit :
> > > Curious that it is turned off for Apple. Maybe bad things will happen?
> Apparently at one point Apple considered images in menus a bad thing.
> However, enabling them on OSX should not cause any issues that I am
> aware of.
> > Not curious.
> > The reason is few years ago, we just have a OSX fundamentalist who had
> > write rights to the repository.
> I don't see this as an issue.  If the folks at Apple deem that images in
> menus are not compatible with their HIG, who am I to argue?  I've never
> done any UI testing so I am not in any position to challenge their
> findings other than my own personal preferences.  My goal is to keep
> KiCad in line with the HIG for a given platform.  It's nothing more than
> that.  As I said before, if the majority of OSX users would prefer
> images in menus as the default, it's easy enough to change.
>
> > > Also, it is not USE_MENU_ICONS, but USE_IMAGES_IN_MENUS
> > >
> > > Thanks much
> > >
> > > Bob G
>
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