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Re: menu icons

 

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:46:42AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 6/6/2017 3:14 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 05:37:32PM -0500, José Ignacio wrote:
> >> Menu icons are disabled by default in gnome 3 in an effort to make it look
> >> more like an Apple product. You can enable them (on gtk 3.10+) with:
> >>
> >> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
> >> "{'Gtk/ButtonImages': <1>, 'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>}"
> > 
> > So the 
> > 
> > Preference->Icon options->Icons in menu
> > 
> > is there for what?
> 
> This controls the menu icon visibility at the application level.  

Yes sorry, I was too precipitous as always... it works...

> The solution above applies to all applications build with gtk. 

> I don't understand why the gnome project made it so difficult 
> to enable them.
> This seems like a perfectly valid user preference.

Yes and the whole "registry" concept copied from the Windows world that
seems to me awkward at best...

As always, thanks for your patience,
Regards,

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Marco Ciampa

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