[openbox] icons in menu

[dams]

Mikael Magnusson a écrit :

> 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 :(.
>
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson


Yep, think to me. :D lol.