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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Removing icons from KDE 4 Menus
From:       Mirko Boehm <mirko () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-09-03 15:52:26
Message-ID: 200509031752.31058.mirko () kde ! org
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On Saturday 03 September 2005 14:13, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > Statistics about what? That it helps? No research, but just look at the
> > answers. Many share the same opinion.
>
> Well, the opinions of a few developers hardly reflects the opinions of
> all of our user-base, or?
To dig a little deeper here, the idea of menus with many menu items seems 
flawed to me in the first place, and that is what makes them hard to grasp 
quickly. If menus have a lot of items, they are nothing different than many 
lines of text. They have to be read to be understood. Icons can help to 
quicker navigate, but it is only help, not a solution to the problem. 

We came to understand that the kmenu is bad as it does the same thing, so why 
should long application menus be different? Also, it is hard to make them 
more informative as it is impossible to make them larger, for example. 

So to fix the mess, let us think about menus with less items, and maybe more 
on-target information. Then, a little larger icons are possible, which are 
easier to grasp. 

I favor not to remove the icons, but make menu items easier recognizable and 
more informative.

--Mirko.
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KDE e.V.: http://www.kde.org/areas/kde-ev/

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