How could anyone defend such an illogical and poor choice? Especially
from people who code (who are supposed to be logical). Throughout my
life, I've developed a wide variety of applications on many different
platforms. So I'm speaking from a lot of experience (though have been
out of the coding
This severely slows down the use of this menu.
Since the default is now to not show any icons, adding some to the
indicator applet would not change the existing UI for users with default
settings, but would improve the situation for people who *want* icons in
menus.
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Indicator applet has no
I can't believe that this is such a big deal to get a few icons for
consistency, this menu is ugly and has been ugly for the last year since
it started invading my UI. The menu doesn't match up with the rest of
the UI, and I would rather look at the old Applications, Places, and
System menu with
I second the request for icons (preferably coloured ones, not
monochrome) to make it easier to use for those whose sight is not the
best. I think this is an accessibility bug.
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Indicator applet has no menu icons
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458929
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The old way was jaunty without the applet or any previous release since ubuntu
existed (System menu has icons up to jaunty).
Jaunty is exactly affected by this in its default settings, and it looks awful.
All gnome programs have icons in menus. Through gconf one can choose to
see them or not
There were no icons in Jaunty either. So the old way was to not have
icons. We're choosing to use our icons in a much more reserved way, and
have chosen not to have them on those items. Thank you for your
comment!
** Package changed: indicator-applet (Ubuntu) = indicator-session
(Ubuntu)
**
