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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My thoughts exactly! They should just assure that the icon size does not break the layout.
I don't like the change at all. The icons on buttons and menus have always been one of my favourite features of GNOME and GTK+. It helps a lot. Not only it looks good, but it makes the buttons and menu items much quicker to recognize. The more buttons and menu items you have, the more the icons help. When you have a lot of buttons or a lot of menu items, you just get lost without the icons.
I don't understand how anyone can say the small icons in menus are not helpful or recognizable - to me, they're perfectly recognizable even at the small size. And if they're not, it just means you're using some crappy icons. So again, instead of solving the problem (making/using better icons that look recognizable at smaller sizes), you just take the lazy way of "solving" the problem and remove the icons.
I think this is the most stupid decision made by the GNOME team in many years.
Edited 2009-08-03 00:02 UTC