This is one of those cases in which I can't imagine that anyone would 
not want the text to line up.  This is what most menu systems do 
outside of Squeak. (Mac, Windows, etc.)

In other words, I think you should resubmit this without the 
preference, so that the text always lines up.  (Hmmmm... although 
perhaps if a menu has *no* icons, it might make sense to not have the 
space before the text?)

(Of course, the preference is still available to turn off icons 
altogether...)

- Doug


On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 02:39 PM, ned at squeakland.org wrote:

>
> "Change Set:		BlankMenuIconsPref-nk
> Date:			9 March 2004
> Author:			Ned Konz
>
> I couldn't avoid the recent discussion of menu icons, so I am
> contributing this little ENH.
>
> It adds another 'menus' Preference called useBlankMenuIcons; if set,
> this will line up all the text in menus containing icons by using blank
> icons for those items without icons.
>
> I believe that this leads to an easier to read menu.
>
> "
>
> Preferences addPreference: #useBlankMenuIcons category:  'menus'
> default:  false balloonHelp: 'if set, line up all the text in menus by
> adding blank menu icons'.
> <BlankMenuIconsPref-nk.cs.gz>