Thanks for the advice. I'll take a good look at the given URL and modify my apps accordingly.
2013/8/13 Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> > hi; > > On 13 August 2013 08:14, LE GARREC Vincent <legarrec.vinc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I have a question about this sentence : > > "The guidance since before GTK+ 3.0 was for buttons to be text labels > only > > or icon images only." > > > > I always design my applications based on the "GNOME Human Interface > > Guidelines" and I never read something like this. Plus, in this guide, > all > > screenshoots show button with text label and icon. Do this guide needs an > > update ? > > yes, it does need to be updated. the next revision of the HIG is a > work in progress, and it's currently being tracked on the wiki: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/HIG > > in general, even during the last release cycles of the 2.x series, the > default for both icons in menus and icons in buttons has been off by > default. > > > If I replace all gtk_button_new_from_stock by > gtk_button_new_with_mnemonic > > then by default every button will not have an icon. So does the > > gnome-tweak-tool's option "Buttons Have Icons" will disappear and the > answer > > will always be no ? > > a general "turn on icons for buttons and menus" toggle is already > moderately nonsensical: unless everybody packs an icon in every > button/menu items, and accepts that icons can appear and disappear at > random, then there is no actual way to implement such toggle. > > whether or not to add an icon in buttons and menu items is left to the > application developer's responsibility or to the application > designer's guidelines. for GNOME applications, buttons should have > text describing the action taken when pressing them (similarly to what > the HIG for GNOME 2.0 already specified), and menus should only have > icons for nouns, not for verbs. > > ciao, > Emmanuele. > > >> Hi, > >> > >> As some of you may have noticed we have recently deprecated Stock Items > in > >> master. > >> > >> Some details on this change may be found here: > >> > >> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCVPoYQBqMbDP11tHPpjW6uaEHrvLUmcDPqKAppCY8o/pub > >> > >> Please let us know what you think. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-devel-list mailing list > > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > > > > > > -- > W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name > B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ >
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