Sorry MPT. You’re making up Canonical Design’s own private rationale downstream that should be made upstream in Gnome, IMO.
The global menu is cool. But to haphazardly change around how the basic elements in Gnome feel is not really respectful. If you implement the appmenu then you should make it look like a Gnome menu. Icons are on the left at the same level as checkmarks, and there are no menu items that have both. There used to be focus on sentiments in Debian towards Ubuntu that people recognized as harmful for the upstream-downstream relationship. I’m sensing similar sentiments bubbling up in Gnome now, which is as critical an upstream for Ubuntu as Debian is one. Besides, I have menus_have_icons on and that’s the way I likes it. The only justification I’ve ever seen brought up to justify dropping icons was an informal, not directly applicable, and not at all rigorous study that Andreas Nilsson cited. I know from my personal desktop usage that I will locate the appropriate menu item faster if there’s a familiar icon associated with it. I’m not advocating icons for every single item. But having recurring, consistent icons for the most important menu items assists recognition, IMO. If anything, the inconsistent indentation is a source of clutteredness, not the icons themselves. -- Should outdent icons into the left gutter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608584 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
