-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 coz DS wrote on 12/10/09 17:05: > > Hey all, > I am running ubuntu 9.10 right now fresh install... I noticed no > icons under System menu and a few missing from Places menu in Gnome.
There are fewer icons in menus generally. Places and System are just two examples. > I brought this up in irc and was told it was an upstream decision > because "it looked cluttered". I hope that was a joke! No, it isn't. > i don't know if that is an accurate reason for the decision > ...however let me point out that many people with vision deficiencies > may not be able to distinguish items in the menus by text alone! > Many will need the colours and shapes of the icons...even if not > seen clearly..to recognize which item listed in the menu is the one > they want. After more than a decade of trying in Gnome, it is still just as impossible as it always was for every menu item to have a distinct and meaningful icon. So if difficulty of finding menu items without icons is really an accessibility problem (and I haven't seen any evidence that it is), we need to solve that problem in a way that does not involve icons. > I suppose the argument that.."if they know where the items are with > icons...the positions have not changed..so therefore...." > I hope that isn't the reasoning:) >... No, it isn't. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrUtccACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecp9XgCbB1i9DRMNluslHxBM0ZboXxu1 WUYAoKsZGj6pasQDzlhAfCkTTN++4jMt =N9b4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
