<Swing Dev> Swing Actions + Icons + Menus
Pavel Porvatov
Pavel.Porvatov at Sun.COM
Tue Jun 26 12:52:52 UTC 2007
Hi Alexander,
I select First opinion with small comments:
> ===== First opinion =====
>
> The statement "Menu Icons Considered Ugly"
> is a personal opinion and not a common belief
YES!!!
> Our native Look and Feels - Windows and GTK
> support icons in menus just like respective OS's do
Yes.
> If someone just doesn't like the icons in the menus
> there is a clear solution:
>
> menuItem.setIcon(null); //arbitrarily chose not to use icon
>
Yes, moreover I don't like buttons with images at all and most of nice
application don't have at the same time images and text on buttons.
Thanks, Pavel.
> Hello swing-dev
>
> Recently we discussed this blog
> http://cafe.elharo.com/java/menu-icons-considered-ugly/
>
> and didn't come to a unified conclusion
>
> There were two opposite opinion about actions + icons + menus
>
> ===== First opinion =====
>
> The statement "Menu Icons Considered Ugly"
> is a personal opinion and not a common belief
>
> Our native Look and Feels - Windows and GTK
> support icons in menus just like respective OS's do
>
> If icons in menus are not common in MacOs,
> Apple can introduce a UI property in their native MacOs Look and Feel
> to switch off the icons for menus
>
> If someone just doesn't like the icons in the menus
> there is a clear solution:
>
> menuItem.setIcon(null); //arbitrarily chose not to use icon
>
>
> ===== Second opinion =====
>
> We should add a new functionality to the Swing Actoins
> to make it possible to switch the icons off for a menuItem
> and show the icon for a button with the same Action
>
> The new RFE is filed
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6572890
>
>
> What do you guys think about that ?
>
> Thanks
> alexp
>
>
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