[Lazarus] Redundant text on project buttons

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2014-10-14 um 20:13 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
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>> Am 2014-10-14 um 18:43 schrieb waldo kitty:
>>> On 10/14/2014 5:20 AM, hinstance at yandex.ru wrote:
>>>> These urgently need to be reduced to icons with no text
>>>> http://s30.postimg.org/5hxkrzfkx/LWaste.png
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>>> why? and why "urgently"??
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>>> my personal preference is text only or text with icon if text only is not available... i never have liked just plain icons with no indication of their action...
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>> +1
>> Icons are realy useless.
>> You cannot search for nor filter nor sort them.
>> They eat up space and performance without benefit.
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> There must be something wrong with your eyes then.
> Icons use less space than text.
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> You can count the number of buttons where the text is smaller (as in: less wide) than the icon, on 1 hand.
> At a first glance, for 'Add' the text is as wide as the icon. For all other buttons the text is wider than the icon.
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> So, no thank you. I prefer icons; you can get rid of the text for all I care.

With your argumenation a single pixel (in varying colors) would be even better than text and icons.
But of what use is it to use less space when no information is given?
If you leave out the icon at all it would use the fewest space.
This is what I always do: disable all button bars as much as possible and use menus or keyboard shortcuts.

Icons only use less space if they tell you nothing.
I often see text even in icons because otherwise the icon would be without any meaning.