On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:55 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > While I generally trust designers in their judgement and I agree that > there was an icon overload, I now often feel a lack of icons. My menu > usage has slowed down because I now have to read everything instead of > being able to rely on icons. A good example of slowed down usage is Inkscape. Open the Path menu and you have to read most of them to actually find "Division" where it used to be a quickly identifiable by its icon (not to mention that the difference between Division and Exclusion was better served by an icon). > Having a ton of icons is certainly not good, but is there anything > that shows that having none at all is better? That's my 2 cents as a user: unless studies have generally identified a speed up in menu usage, I would think it was a move the opposite. Pierre-Luc
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