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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: icons on buttons
From:       Dominik Haumann <dhdev () gmx ! de>
Date:       2008-01-12 10:37:01
Message-ID: 200801121137.01915.dhdev () gmx ! de
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On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On 1/11/08, bozhan@mail.bg <bozhan@mail.bg> wrote:
> > Hiiii, Happy new year and new KDE.
> >
> > I just want to suggest you to remove icons from bottons.
> >
> > I understand that most of you did't see other decktop instead KDE since
> > 1998 and since then Win3.11 but placing icons on buttons was droped
> > from desktops since windows 95 :) and after migrating to other visual
> > tools instead of Borland Delphy
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > ps. if you don't belive me search in google for screenshots for MacOS X
> > and Windows >95 !Or you don't try to compete with them??? ooh sorry
> > then .. don't mind me! :)
>
> Since when does 'doing what MS and Apple do' constitute a good reason
> to do something? Sure, we can try to figure out WHY they do certain
> things, and if their reasons are sound, we can follow. But I see no
> compelling reason to remove icons from buttons - and though I am no
> expert, I can easily see why it's actually an advantage in terms of
> usability. There are projects out there which are trying to copy MS or
> Apple, but we ain't one of them. We just want to create great, usable
> software - copying them blindly doesn't bring much advantages that I
> can think of when there are ways to do better than them.

Besides: open .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and edit the section [KDE] with

  [KDE]
  ...
  ShowIconsOnPushButtons=false

It's configurable... (something KPersonalizer did)

Dominik
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