Main menu icon

[Erik Harrison]

On Apr 10, 2005 6:40 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Joe Crawford wrote:
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> > [snip: the xfce menu isn't intuitive; the icon needs some text]
> >
> > I made an example of what a more obvious icon could be, with a couple
> > options. They look readable even at quite low resolutions.
> >
> > http://joetainment.com/Plone/MenuIcons.png
> >
> > In order to look good at very low resolutions the main menu button
> > needs to be wider than it is tall. A natural side effect of left to
> > right written languages.
> >
> > If people like this idea, I can polish up the icon and submit it, or
> > maybe people have some other ideas to make the main menu more obvious.
> 
> I have no problem with putting some text in the button, but I can't load
> your icon (just sits there trying to connect and eventually times out).
> 
> However, assuming you've put the text in the pixmap itself, that's a
> definite no-no, as it makes it impossible to localise it to different
> languages without creating a new button for each language (not the right
> approach, IMO).

Wasn't this available in the first version of the menu, but cut out
for simplicity? Or am I imagining that?

> 
>         -brian
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