Re: A less cluttered desktop

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Matthias Clasen<mclasen redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 14:09 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:49 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>>
>> > On the downside, there's also no icons in Applications / Places /
>> > System. So does Rawhide GNOME handle them differently? I can't imagine
>> > that losing icons in the panel menu (or having them only in Places as
>> > Johann describes) is the intended behavior.
>>
>> To answer my own question, here's the original bug report:
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557469
>>
>> Comments there indicate that the Applications menu is still intended to
>> have icons. The proposed guideline in comment #1 says (in part):
>>
>> "A menu item should have an icon only if it represents a dynamic object
>> such as an application, file, device, or user ..."
>>
>> So yeah, that will probably be fixed once someone updates gnome-panel
>> (or whatever component that menu comes from).
>>
>
> The panel in rawhide has the intended behaviour. You get icons for
> applications, files, devices, bookmarks, but not for categories, etc.
>
> The one potentially confusing thing here is that the panel menu icons
> react to the settings at all (ie category icons come back if you turn
> menu icons on). Maybe we want to stop them from doing that.

Well, would it be possible to add a separate gconf key for it?
I tested the "no icons mode" but well it looks like crap if you are
used to the "icon mode".