John Griessen wrote: >> I agree with Andrew. We should use smaller icons, no text, with a >> tooltip containing a description and the shortcut sequence. > > +1 > JG >
I disagree. Smaller icons than currently become a pain on large screens. Icons should be scalable. There is a reason why desktop managers gravitated to vectorized icons during the past ten years. That's why pcb's current GTK GUI looks increasingly old school these days. I couldn't care for eye candy. But there is a usability aspect, too. The optimum size of icons in terms of pixels depends on the size of the screen. If the icons take too much screen real estate, the better solution would be not to show them all all the time. General 3D drafting applications demonstrate how to deal with literally hundreds of modes and actions and still offer an intuitive UI. Think Autocad Inventor, SolidWorks, Microstation and the like. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
