On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 10:41 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > Le mercredi 26 août 2009, à 17:54 +0200, Frederic Crozat a écrit : > > Le vendredi 31 juillet 2009 à 22:02 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > When the panel was changed to kept some icons when the menu icons are > > > hidden, all icons in the panel menu bar were kept. A new change just got > > > committed to only keep icons for application menu items, place menu > > > items and preference menu items. Or if you prefer, icons for categories, > > > "Connect to server", "Search files", "Recent documents", "Help", "About > > > GNOME", "Lock", "Log out", "Shut down" were removed. > > > > > > I'm not convinced by this change: some part probably makes sense, but > > > something "feels" wrong to me. Maybe it's because I expect the panel > > > menu bar to be a bit different. > > > > > > It could also be because by default, you get three menus (Applications / > > > Places / System), and only Places has some icons (and quite a few of > > > them) while the two others don't if you don't open a submenu. Maybe it > > > kind of breaks a visual balance for me... > > > > > > So, yeah, I'd just like to get feedback to know if it's right or not, if > > > it needs to be updated slightly, etc. > > > > Is there any plan to revert this (back to icons on submenus) ? Current > > situation is really inconsistent and the mix between no icons and icons > > is a nightmare, mainly in Applications menu. > > The only feedback I got about this is that we should revert the change > for categories in the applications menu (and system menu, for the > preferences). Some people would also like other icons to come back in > the panel menu (and just the panel menus, because it's a special menu). > > Usability people: can you step up and tell us what is the right thing to > do here? At the moment, my decision as maintainer is to put back the > icons for categories in the applications menu. > > Documentation people: does going back to showing icons there break some > documentation that was updated?
I'm not seeing any updates in gnome-user-docs. I can't be certain about other documents, but it seems unlikely that anything would be showing screenshots of that. If this change just makes things more like they used to be, then I don't have any objections from the documentation side. -- Shaun > Release team: would you approve such a change at this point? > > Thanks, > > Vincent > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
