[Lazarus] Redundant text on project buttons

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Wed Oct 15 11:56:43 CEST 2014



On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:

>
> Am 2014-10-14 um 20:13 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> why? and why "urgently"??
>>>> 
>>>> 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...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> Icons are realy useless.
>>> You cannot search for nor filter nor sort them.
>>> They eat up space and performance without benefit.
>> 
>> There must be something wrong with your eyes then.
>> Icons use less space than text.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> So, no thank you. I prefer icons; you can get rid of the text for all I 
>> care.
>

What is clear to me is that opinions vary, so, if it is changed, 
the behaviour should be made a setting.

Michael.


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