Re: iconless apps

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 18Apr2002 04:24PM (+0200), Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le jeu 18/04/2002 à 16:16, Alex Larsson a écrit :
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I think not showing an icon is best. That will give incentive for the app 
> > developer to add an icon, and a default icon does not actually give you 
> > any information. It just clutters up the menu. Especially if you have 
> > several items in a menu without icons and they all get the same default 
> > icon.
> 
> Agreed.. KDE is using a default icon which is extremely ugly when no
> icon is available (therefore our KDE packager need to ensure all
> applications have a good looking icon in our menus :((

As Frederic's post shows, having a default icon creates *more*
incentive to have a good icon for every app, because apps that get the
default icon look dumb.

 - Maciej