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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Diogo,
thanks for point it our. This has been fixed in a patch that is currently
in the pipeline.

Cheers
Fabrizio


On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Diogo Condeço <diogocondeco@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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