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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: menus: icons and text
From:       Simon Perreault <nomis80 () nomis80 ! org>
Date:       2003-12-29 14:55:46
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On December 29, 2003 03:58, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> But what are quality fonts?

Fonts with hinting, in general. The Microsoft core fonts, in particular. There 
is also the Bitstream Vera fonts, but I find that even with hinting these 
fonts are not on the same level of quality. For more info, I find 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/users.htm to be a very good source of 
geneal information on truetype fonts.

> About inserting icons in menus whenever it makes sense, eg. in Kmail
> in context menu on address in reader window is 6 actions, among them:
> New mail to..., Reply to..., Forward to... IMO this is place
> when you can put icons with obvious meaning (in umbrello they overdose
> it). It would possible to find some other places eg. Properties entry in
> all context menus and very nice blue (i) info icon.
>
> In such situation lack of icons could be considered as usability bug or
> the other way?

Speaking only for myself, I think that lack of icons (where it is appropriate) 
should be considered a usability bug.

-- 
Simon Perreault <nomis80@nomis80.org> -- http://nomis80.org

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