A less cluttered desktop

[drago01]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Matthias Clasen<mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 17:55 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Will Woods<wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 09:52 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Matthias Clasen<mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:04 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Well, would it be possible to add a separate gconf key for it?
>> >> >> I tested the "no icons mode" but well it looks like crap if you are
>> >> >> used to the "icon mode".
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you be more specific here ? What is 'it' ? And what looks like
>> >> > crap ? Are you talking about the panel menu or menus in general ?
>> >>
>> >> "It" = panel menu.
>> >
>> > The panel menu is supposed to have icons in it, regardless of the state
>> > of /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons.
>> >
>> > So if you're not getting icons in your panel menu, it's because your
>> > gnome-panel package is too old to know this. F11 won't behave properly
>> > here. Ignore it, upgrade to Rawhide, or wait for F12.
>>
>>
>> My comment was directed at "The one potentially confusing thing here
>> is that the panel menu icons
>> react to the settings at all (ie category icons come back if you turn
>> menu icons on). Maybe we want to stop them from doing that."
>>
>> which means "make it always use no category icons"
>>
>
> Yes, this is what I was considering.

Yes and my suggestion was a separate key for this to make it less
confusing,but still preserve the option to have icons for those who
want them.