[Lazarus] Redundant text on project buttons

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Oct 17 12:51:14 CEST 2014



On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:

> Am 2014-10-17 um 01:20 schrieb Juha Manninen:
>> Yes, a better icon would be appreciated. I promise to apply it.
>
> What a waste of manpower!
> Programming the UI already takes so much effort
> that it should be restricted to useful things.
>
> Just compare the two ways of selecting a graphical component in the IDE:
>
> 1.) Wading through the icons/buttons (which
> are grouped in tabs with text(!) names. Why?).
>
> 2.) Right-clicking on the bar and selecting "View all".
> With "View-all" I have a sortable list which I can filter
> with a few keystrokes. What a comfortable function to find
> things! And there is no need to create new icons for each
> and every (new) component, just choose a (text) name.
> What can be better?

I prefer the icons. I know exactly where they are. 
So that is better and faster for me.

Everybody is entitled to his opinion, but beware of forcing it on others.
people can spend their time on whatever they like. 
If that is making icons, then this must be respected.

Michael.


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