Hello swing-dev Recently we discussed this blog http://cafe.elharo.com/java/menu-icons-considered-ugly/
and didn't come to a unified conclusion There were two opposite opinion about actions + icons + menus ===== First opinion ===== The statement "Menu Icons Considered Ugly" is a personal opinion and not a common belief Our native Look and Feels - Windows and GTK support icons in menus just like respective OS's do If icons in menus are not common in MacOs, Apple can introduce a UI property in their native MacOs Look and Feel to switch off the icons for menus If someone just doesn't like the icons in the menus there is a clear solution: menuItem.setIcon(null); //arbitrarily chose not to use icon ===== Second opinion ===== We should add a new functionality to the Swing Actoins to make it possible to switch the icons off for a menuItem and show the icon for a button with the same Action The new RFE is filed http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6572890 What do you guys think about that ? Thanks alexp
