New look doesn't necessary means better look

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Tue Mar 9 09:36:41 UTC 2004


  Hello,

> >   I remember that there were some discussion about this, but another
> > option is to have a scalable icons.
> How do we do them?
> What is the format?

  Some were mentioning SVG, and other said, IIRC, big bitmap a la
MacOS X.  Both of those are not that feasible...

> >   Also, supplying the icons should be all or nothing; if a menu has
> > icons, all items should have icons.  If not, all shouldn't have.
> 
> This is not what I call incremental development given the number of 
> menu items
> that squeak has. So with that state of mind squeak will never has icons.

  Ah, I'm not saying that all menus in an image, but individual menus
in an image.  It is *ok* that a menu in an image has icons for all
items while another doesn't at all.  But if the items are mixed in a
menu, it doesn't look nice to me.

-- Yoshiki



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