<Swing Dev> Swing Actions + Icons + Menus

[Pavel Porvatov]

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
> 
>