On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:12:49AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> An icon that only says "this application doesn't have an icon of its
> own" doesn't help the user at all. It doesn't help the user visually
> find the application in a menu, since the same icon is used for many
> unrelated items. What it does do is add to the visual clutter in a menu,
> which makes things worse, rather than better, and makes pattern
> recognition harder.
It's true that generic icon doesn't help user to find the program in menu.
But no icon doesn't help him either. I don't think present of icon is
worse than absence.
Next argument is, when all programs have their icons, menu looks nice.
Even if some of icons are just debian logos.
Marcin
--
.---, --: mcINEK :--
/ ,. \ ' T h e O w l s a r e n o t
| | ; ; W h a t T h e y S e e m . . . '
\ `._ / wrote on Debian GNU/Linux SID
Attachment:
pgpyMwvGQfweA.pgp
Description: PGP signature