[openbox] icons in menu

Lucas Hazel lucas at die.net.au
Fri Feb 24 08:19:06 EST 2006


On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:16:17 +0100
dams <dams at dams-interactive.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

While we're at it, think of the poor saps on networked filesystems
too ;P

-- 
Lucas Hazel <lucas at die.net.au>

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