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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I personally (as a user) find the icons visually more intuitive. Specially
for newcomers and better adoption of KiCad.

I know it's out of some guidelines, but this is a very complex software.

My feeling is that it's better with a "on" by default setting, as long as
people already used to the software, or not liking icons could disable them.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry to bring this up again, but for me icons are still enabled by
> default on macOS (and Windows unsurprisingly). I deleted
> /Library/Application Support/kicad, ~/Library/Preferences/kicad and
> /Applications/Kicad, reinstalled from most recent nightly (07-Sep-2017)
> and the icons were there upon startup.
>
> I think the problem was the default value was true when the key wasn't
> found (ie for new install), see http://docs.wxwidgets.org/
> trunk/classwx_config_base.html#a93b700301e0b73f1b42f14497f2e6bc7
>
> I have attached a patch to turn icons off by default on all platforms
> (doing away with "ugly" #if defined()/#endif). I think this would be
> preferable as per both the macOS and Windows guidelines. I am
> unfamiliar with Linux UI's but if Linux users want the icons enabled by
> default the #if will have to be added again.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 13 April 2017 at 18:51, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> I committed your patch since osx expects the icons to be disabled by
>> default.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 4/8/2017 6:42 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>> > Please see attached patch to disable icons in the menus by default on
>> osx
>> >
>> >
>> >
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