Re: gEDA-user: New icon set and UI changes

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 14:58 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> 
> > 
> > No, the text is part of the images, like the current icons. What I will
> > probably do is remove the text entirely, shrink the icons to 32x32 (since
> > with the text, they are mostly blank space anyway), and rely on tooltips
> > to display what each tool is.
> > 
> 
> Text is really fine for beginners and for people which do not use that
> software often -- tooltipps may be fine for remembering, but not so fine
> for learning.
> 
> Firefox has icons for which we can switch text on and of, and we can
> select big and small icons, and text only mode.
> 
> Some Gnome program have similar functionality, including removing
> undesired icons from the icon panel. 
> 
> That is fine, but needs some coding effort.
> 

Compared to some of the proposals in this thread, very little effort!
I agree with this, though. Probably a new tab in the preferences dialog
will be needed just for icon setup.

Andrew


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