I never really look at the icons. Except the check box that is functional
I see the icons as a visual noise that make the menus and UI look more
interesting visually :-P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

Best,
Karl

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:05 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> > On 2020-02-17, at 10:59 AM, Thiede, Christoph <
> Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hm, it would be also nice if the menu items could implement
> #applyUserInterfaceTheme properly ...
> >
> > <pastedImage.png>
> >
> > By the way: The indent of labels next to symbols is hard-coded and not
> the same for icons and markers (see MenuItemMorph >> drawLabelOn:). We
> currently don't have any mechanism for centering all icons horizontally and
> all labels to the left, do we?
>
> Do people actually like having icons stuck in their menus? It never seemed
> like much of a good idea to me; so many menu entries have no reasonable
> iconic representation, the size of the icons really needs to be carefully
> constrained in order to not make a messy visual (look at what the
> inspect/explore lines do in your image), very few icons are well designed,
> it can drastically slow down menu rendering... really not something I like.
>
> tim
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