From kde-devel Fri May 14 09:25:41 1999 From: Matt Koss Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:25:41 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player] X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92667583027573 On Pi, 14 máj 1999, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > >Now look at it from the users' perspective: > >-> A user learns that menu items can be dragged onto the toolbar. What a >cool feature! Let's try it... > >-> This doesn't work AT ALL for 50% of menu items just because they don't >have an icon! Who cares about the damn icon!?? I just want "new HTML table >row" on the toolbar dammit! Just look at MS apps like Word, or StarOffice. There is a possibility to put items on toolbar, and these items don't need to have an icon. They are just displayed simply as a text. Toolbar then look like a mix of icon and text buttons. I don't think that this is any disadvantage. As far as it's ok for user to have such a toolbar. At any time, this item can have an icon assigned to it ( at least in StarOffice, don't know about MS apps). Creating a nice icon chooser dialog, which would be easily accessible ( e.g. by pressing right mouse button on menu / toolbar item ), would not be a drawback IMO. This approach also doesn't put a big burden on icon artists. I agree that it is nonsense to create icons just-in-case somebody might use them. But common, and widely used menu/toolbar items should have their standard icon anyway. Best regards Matt -- Matej Koss e-mail: koss@napri.sk Kosice ICQ# : 19344305 Slovaki