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 > <majop...@redhat.com <mailto:majop...@redhat.com>> 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 > <mich...@michaelkavanagh.me <mailto:mich...@michaelkavanagh.me>> 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 <stambau...@gmail.com > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > -- > Diogo Condeço > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp