> On Sep 25, 2019, at 16:44, Becker, Matthias <[email protected]> wrote: > suboptimal UX
I think this statement needs backing by a UX research/study. To me, a growing use of icons (especially in addition to text) comes with a lot of drawbacks, eg., waste of screen space, make dialogs look way too busy, hard to read menu items because of all the colorful icons, removes screen estate. Icons serve a particular use case in identifying things. This works somewhat well in toolbars. It no longer works well in toolbars with more than 20 icons. Again, all personal opinions. > And what about the eGit tooling? The “interactive rebase” view does use icons > and text heavily (and I really like that). Does eGit *not* belong to the > “IDE” you are talking about? It's a decision done by eGit. I'd say it works pretty well in that specific case (given the limited set of options). I like that eGit follows common conventions and does *not* add buttons to its preference pages. :) -Gunnar -- Gunnar Wagenknecht [email protected], http://guw.io/ _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [email protected] To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
