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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2007-09-23
True.
I recently installed Windows 7 on my "desktop" computer (hooked to the TV and surround) and I have actually decided to move all my stuff to Windows now. Linux will still remain on the desktop but is gonna play a secondary role now.
I think that there's a lot of stuff in Windows 7 that Linux should learn from. Especially Aero.
There's still a few parts of Windows though that doesn't feel like it "fits" in with the rest of the system. I love consistency and there's always places in every desktop environment that doesn't fit in right.
I must say that I love the lack of icons. A word is also a picture in a way. You know that thing where you switch place of every letter in a word except for the last and the first and you can still read it? I don't "read" words, I recognize them. So using text-only on buttons and menus are not a problem and doesn't make it harder for me to find the right buttons.
I generally like reduced colors and distractions. A nice color theme, limited use of icons and really good looking fonts is the shit. Small and subtle visual goodies can be nice, such as a feeling of the text being somewhat engraved into the background in toolbars are nice for example, as long as it's very, very subtle.
Anyway, I welcome this move from Gnome.