On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 15:09 +0000, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > I agree with this change, but this is not a election, so I don't think > those kind of comments adds any additional value to the bug report. > > > #80 "...and makes other menus cute again" > A cute looking Operating System is not something I think we should strive > for. Cute stuff could make you forgive the OS easier (like the stupid Sony > robot), but a professional looking one will make you trust it to begin with. > @Andreas Nilsson: I agree that we should strive forward for a professional looking OS. Also agree that the *present* haphazard arrangement ,of icons and no icons in menu, makes the menu look a bit incomplete.
I wouldnt say that icons are just for cuteness though. And stripping down *all* the icons doesnt necessarily make OS professional. Icons are very useful for quick navigation , of the menus , as they can catch the attention more easily. And as the saying goes... a picture is worth a thousand words.... ;p Flipping the gconf only hides the problem of the haphazard menu items , Until the guidelines are finalized. Quoting mpt from the usability mailing list: "... Even then, I think icons should either be used for every item in a section (between the end of a menu and a separator, or between two menu separators),.." But such a cleanup of the menus and icons would be a much harder process, and making a guideline even tougher , than just flipping a gconf. A fair trade-off for the time-being, i guess ;) On a sidenote: The design team seems to have observed ,during user testing , whether lack of icons made it harder to use the shutdown menu. And had not seen any indications of difficulty using the menu without icons... [ I *suspect* that such tests were only conducted in users either new to Ubuntu OS or are new computer users] Such a test , would be a highly biased test and not a reasonable/reliable indicator of the usefulness or need for the icons. - Any new user would *always* read the menu option listed and not initially depend on the icon. Icons become more recognizable over a period of usage and help navigate quicker only when a user is familiar with the system, rather than initially. -- (design decision) Icons missing from context menu , dialogue buttons , firefox bookmark favicons, system menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407621 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
