[397] in Athena User Interface
Re: Menu icons not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Fri Sep 8 00:21:23 2000
Message-Id: <200009080421.AAA14923@manatee.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Sep 2000 23:10:09 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 00:21:18 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
> I think the splash of color added by the icons really
> livens up the very blah, plain text menus we'd otherwise have. I
> don't think it matters whether or not we have a complete set; it's not
> like an ugly broken pic icon gets put there or something.
An icon should mean something. If it is a representation for the
program, then its absense should mean that the program is not there.
An ugly broken icon would be semantically superior.
We are NOT obligated to put graphics and color everywhere we possibly
can. The "splash of color" is tasteless and meaningless.
yak
