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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2006-08-17
Removing menu icons is BAD BAD BAD. They serve for accessibility.
Even if you're half blind an you see a drawing that somewhat looks like an 'X', you'll know that it means 'close'.
We should really stop the following new trends in Linux computing:
1. Minimalistic userz who hatez xserver and anything usable.
2. Disgruntled windows users who switched to Linux and run Ubuntu and are continuously trying to change everything related to GUIs by complicating everything and trying to make Gnome a clone of windows vista (I haven't tried vista but I've seen screen shots so I know what I'm talking about). It's like the other day when I joined #gnome-shell on irc.gimp.org and showed my concern that forcing compositing is a bad idea for old systems. So the developers reply saying: well ubuntu has been using composing by default for a while now.
My idea is that we shouldn't listen to people who switched from windows but only to people who have been using linux only for 5 to 10 years.
Menu icons are a good thing. Even windows used them back in the 90s. Accessibility is not bloat!