Hi Alexander,
I select First opinion with small comments:
> ===== First opinion =====
>
> The statement "Menu Icons Considered Ugly"
> is a personal opinion and not a common belief
YES!!!
> Our native Look and Feels - Windows and GTK
> support icons in menus just like respective OS's do
Yes.
> 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
>
Yes, moreover I don't like buttons with images at all and most of nice
application don't have at the same time images and text on buttons.
Thanks, Pavel.
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
