[openbox] icons in menu

[lostson]

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 00:19 +1100, Lucas Hazel wrote:
> 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
> 

 Just make it an option not a concrete thing I for one do not like icons
in my menu's,.
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LostSon

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