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[Diogo Condeço <diogocondeco@xxxxxxxxx>]

While personally I won't use icons in the menus if that option is available
to me, I can see why someone would like to use them.

I can see it being useful to identify actions visually, but with that in
mind, I can't understand why having icons and reusing them on different
functions would help anyone. I've attached a screenshot where the same icon
is used for 3 different actions....

BR,
Diogo

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 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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Diogo Condeço

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