Hi Manu On Nov 15, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Manu Cornet wrote:
... The new Shutdown/Suspend/etc. actions in the top-right fast-user-switching applet look great! However, I was wondering if adding icons next to the menu items (as we usually do in GNOME) would be a good idea? Or do you think it would add too much clutter?
One of the things that makes Gnome in general look messy and unpolished is that almost every menu item has an icon -- and where an item doesn't, it's not for any reason relevant to users, it's because nobody has drawn one. (Sometimes they haven't had time to, but other times there just is no possible understandable icon.) And as far as I know, there is no empirical evidence that using icons in a typical pull-down menu makes them faster to use.
Upstream we're currently considering how to reduce the number of icons in menus. <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557469>
Meanwhile, as Baptiste pointed out, we do use icons for the various IM statuses (because for those, we're fairly confident icons *do* help you recognize the item you want more quickly). It's a bit awkward that they're on the right rather than the left, but the rationale is to line them up exactly with the equivalent icon in the panel itself.
Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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