Op zondag 2 september 2018 20:49:22 CEST schreef Rich Shepard: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Geert Janssens wrote: > > As for the specific suggestion of text only tool bar buttons, this used to > > be one of such user tweaks. Unfortunately gtk (the gui toolkit we depend > > on) dropped this option. You could consider this a bug, but that would > > make it a gtk bug. I don't want gnucash to become more complicated just to > > work around it. > > Geert, > > Yes, I remember this from many years ago. I'll consider asking the GTK > folks to add it back. > > > Having said all that, I also think our UI is desperately in need of some > > serious review and improvement. It's more than 20 years old and a lot has > > changed in terms of computer interaction in that time. That is a project > > on its own though which may or may not be started for gnucash 4.x. > > My perspective on application UI is that function should preceed form. > The UI should facilitate using the tool, and being 'pretty' should be a > much lower priority as that's in the eye of the user. > Agreed completely and more or less the basic idea underpinning the motivation I gave. If you read the Gnome human interface guidelines (which I was alluding at in "toolkit's defaults and guidelines") they are also very much focused on function, not on 'pretty'.
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