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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paulo J. S. Silva wrote:
> I must agree.
>
> It feels now very odd to see the Systems menu without any icons (only
> to open a submenu like Administration or Settings with tons of icons
> in it). All other menus in the panel have icons (applications and
> places). I don't see why Systems doesn't. I knew something was
> perturbing me and now I see the problem, as mac_v said, it is the lack
> of consistency. And now we have the indicator applet (which is a mix
> between a launcher and an status display) also avoid icons. That is
> two menus with and two without icons.
>   

The GNOME Shell effort is doing away with the Applications, Places and
System menus. And our Netbook launcher Unity doesn't have them, either.
And there are many things running on your system which don't have icons!
So this is the general direction we are heading in.

Mark

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