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<p>To clarify this: This screenshot was made after 1) opening the menu and 2) saying Preferences changeFontSize: 12. Thanks to Marcel's recent commits, menus don't look that bad when opened after rescaling:</p>
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<p>> <span>It never seemed like much of a good idea to me; so many menu entries have no reasonable iconic representation</span></p>
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<p><span>In some of their Win32 guidelines, M</span><span style="font-size:12pt">icrosoft says that context menus should not need icons. But Microsoft also says that context menus should be very short, so they are far away from us by worlds ...</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">> <span>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)<span>, very few icons are well designed</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span>+1 for redesigning the icons consistently (but, sorry, I'm not a graphic artist).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span>-1 for dropping support for a simple feature because we could not get it working in the past :)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span>> <span>it can drastically slow down menu rendering</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span>I never faced that issue. I made some performance analysis recently when each world cycle in my image took a few hundred milliseconds, and the main loads still are the following:</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span>- displaying of long lists (3 out of 45 seconds in FormCanvas, mainly font rendering & primitives)</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span>- displaying of windows and shadows (together, 11 out of 45 seconds)</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span>The main problem is that all of these drawing operations are executed whenever a Browser or something else is hovered for a moment (and no, I do not wish to turn off "windows contents always active" :) )</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span>Best,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span>Christoph</span></span></span></p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 17. Februar 2020 20:05:05<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Morphic-mt.1624.mcz</font>
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> On 2020-02-17, at 10:59 AM, Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:<br>
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> Hm, it would be also nice if the menu items could implement #applyUserInterfaceTheme properly ...<br>
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> 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?<br>
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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.<br>
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