Setting the two gconf keys to true specifically for Ubuntu is quite
possible (as it's just a default setting that changed, no icons have
been removed for those who wish to keep the old behavior), however, when
mpt, Mark Shuttleworth and myself discussed this at the GNOME User
Experience hackfest
From upstream comments , i dont think mpt was driving this change.
He was more reluctant against this move...
Comment #14 from Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
2008-12-29 11:25 UTC [reply]
I agree with Jeff Schroeder (comment 12) in that merely setting
menus_have_icons=false by
** Summary changed:
- Icons missing from context menu , buttons
+ Icons missing from context menu , dialogue buttons , firefox bookmark favicons
** Description changed:
The icons are missing from the context menus and dialogue buttons , since i
updated :
libgnome2-0 (2.26.0-1ubuntu1) to
Folks,
Let's gather some meaningful data, reasonable opinion, and (if
necessary) exercise our independence as to whether we should re-enable
menu and button icons in Ubuntu.
I am asking a very simple question. Where is the best place to discuss
this proposal to re-enable icons; the forums,
One place to discuss that would be the ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com,
note that mpt who is a designer working for canonical is subscribed to
the upstream discussion
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Icons missing from context menu , dialogue buttons , firefox bookmark favicons
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407621
You
Quoting from upstream:
I'm afraid a poll on such a trivial UI matter would be a terrible idea.
People never like change for sure, but one of our goals for 3.0 a cleaner and
more well balanced interface. This is one of the steps, and I hope it will turn
out as the better choice in the end. I
I can see some reasons for doing this - in particular I've seen menus
take a while to display properly while the icons get loaded.
But heck - it doesn't look 'clean' it looks incredibly plain; and from a UI
point of view the icons help people navigate
faster rather than having to take the time
