[openbox] icons in menu

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, J. Shinall wrote:

> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Artyom Mirgorodsky wrote:
>>
>>>> Especially svg sounds a bit cpu intensive...
>>>
>>> Ok. What you think about add support icons in menu in any other format?
>>
>> That's sort of the issue, i don't know which format we'd want to
>> support. We can't go around supporting all formats but if we add one,
>> people will want more anyway...
>>
>> --
>> Mikael Magnusson
>
> I agree with Mikael. Please don't ever confuse light-weight with ugly. I
> believe OB3 has done a nice job of balancing aesthetics with resource load.
>
> Mikael has already mentioned why adding menu icon support would be a bad
> idea:
>
> 2) The load on the CPU would certainly increase if icons were added to
> the menus. Correct me if I'm wrong, but OB was created to be a
> light-weight WM that allows you to be efficiently productive. Simply
> adding support for the formats would not be enough. The entire menuing
> routines would need to be modified and tweaked so that it doesn't take
> forever to render the icons every single time a menu is displayed.
> Otherwise, users would see this and start thinking OB is slow, which is
> far from the truth. This would probably mean adding even more
> dependencies. If we start doing that, say good-bye to 'light-weight'.

3) actually, my main concern is that all menu systems with icons go frr 
frr with the hard drive for 5 seconds before they open, think of poor dams 
with his 100 icons :(.

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Mikael Magnusson