[haiku-development] Re: Mail and E-mail preferences

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:14:32 +0100

On 2008-02-21 at 20:55:08 [+0100], Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Maurice Kalinowski wrote:
> 
> >> The problem with such an icon approach is that the icon, at that size,
> >> is nothing more than a few insignificant pixels lumped together, not
> >> really distinguishable anyway (small icons are heck for i.e.
> >> accessibility).
> >
> > For what it is worth, I would prefer the icons too. The list entries you
> > were talking about so far (About, application configuration) are used
> > very rarely. This might also be an indicator that you are not willing to
> > be disturbed by this huge element in the menu list all the time (while
> > for instance Edit, etc. are used on a much more regular basis).
> 
> More than that, the thing about the icon being too small at the required
> resolution is completely irrelevant. Eventually the user will be
> "trained" to know the the icon menu is where application-specific stuff
> resides. He will not be "trained" to look for an icon tha resembles
> whatever the application does. Eventually, this specific menu entry will
> end up being caled the Icon Menu, just like we already have the Haiku Menu.

+1. A very good argument pro the icon menu, IMHO.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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