i guess it also depends whether you expect your users
to become familiar/competent with your software.
eg 'novice' settings may have less buttons on-screen,
with images and captions. when they are familiar with
the software, and what the images represent, they can
use the 'expert' mode with just the images, but have
more buttons on-screen. one example of this is the
netscape toolbar.
captions can still be available via tool-tips for
reminding what the button does.
re: limited screen-estate, with customisable toolbars,
users can select what functionality they want, meaning
that you can still have large/'expensive' buttons with
text+images.
Cya!
> Are you seriously suggesting that you or your uses
> can figure out what each button bitmap means on most
> applications ? Can you figure out what each of the
> IDE buttons (palette and toolbar) mean without
> looking at the help ?
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