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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Watch out for Ubuntu, they have some weird patches on top of GTK that
they use with Unity. This may explain some of the weirdness under Unity.
It's not a WM thing though, they've actually patched GTK. It may also be
related to a difference in GTK version, or a setting respected by GTK.

The WM itself has no knowledge of menus though.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:04:41PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> Le 18/07/2017 à 19:35, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 07:34:25PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> >> Le 18/07/2017 à 19:14, "Jörg Hermann" a écrit :
> >>> Translation of Clockwise and Counterclockwise are long texts in many languages:
> >>> Uhrzeigersinn and Gegenuhrzeigersinn in german for example.
> >>>  
> >>> If the icon depicts (dynamically) the sense of rotation, the text can be short as "Rotate" - which
> >>> is short in many languages.
> >>> Just an idea?
> >>>  
> >>> Jörg Hermann
> >>>  
> >>
> >> I agree icons should show the rotation.
> >>
> >> However Rotate Clockwise (or Counter Clockwise ) is still needed (just "Rotate" is not acceptable)
> >> because icons are not always displayed:
> >> - On OSX by default (although they can be shown, this is an option in Kicad, now)
> >> - On Linux, some WM do not display icons in menus.
> > 
> > What? WM has no control over menus.
> > 
> 
> Really?
> 
> I am talking about icons in menus.
> This issue (no icons in menus) was already reported by users.
> 
> I have 2 Linux installs on my computer:
> 
> the first is ubuntu 14.04 and uses KDE : icons are displayed in Kicad menus.
> the other is ubuntu 16.04 and uses Unity: icons are *not* displayed in Kicad menus.
> (I also used ubuntu 14.04 on Unity: no icons)
> 
> Displaying icons in menus or not is a problem reported by users, not only for Kicad.
> 
> Just Goggling about this topic (like I did a long time ago).
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS