Hi all,
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:33:28 -0600 From: Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com To: xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Icons in Xfce Menu Message-ID: 20121005113328.47ef85a1@jelerak.scrye.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Yeah, sorry I missed this thread.
It's default that way in 4.10.
I think to allow menus to map faster...
Do people feel strongly about changing the default? Adding icons it will make the menus slower and use more memory.
I personally don't feel too strongly about it one way or the other, but tend to just want to follow upstream where sensible. ;)
Disabling the icons in the menu does not really make it load faster, even on low-spec machines (I have tried that on an old single-core Atom).
Icons are a good help for finding items in menus. I most often refer to menu position and icon when I am opening menu entries I already know.
For someone who does not know what a program name means, icons are also a good orientation.
I agree with you that following upstream is a good idea in general, but not in this case. This is a position I share with nearly all other Xfce Distros that ship 4.10. I personally know not one which disables icons in menus.
Greets Marcus