Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Aug 2009 20:12 UTC, submitted by kiddo
A common complaint about GNOME is that it has a certain fetish for icons. Menu entries, buttons - everything has an icon attached to it which often wastes space needlessly by making buttons larger than they need to be, as well as menus wider than they need to be. The good news (for me, at least) is that the next GNOME release will have all these icons removed.
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2006-09-26
I am definitely for making GNOME's ridiculously large buttons smaller, however I think they should still keep their icons.
Take the new "Delete" button for example. Even at the new size, you can easily fit an icon on it. Heck, you could still fit two icons on it without overlap, though it would be crowded.
Icons generally provide instant recognizability, and make things more visually appealing than just drab text everywhere.