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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/11/2017 1:51 PM, Diogo Condeço 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....

The "Component Libraries" menu entry is soon going to go away leaving
only the "Symbol Library Table" menu entry so there will not be a
duplicate bitmap once this work is complete.

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