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Re: Redundant icon in tool-bar
From: |
Leo |
Subject: |
Re: Redundant icon in tool-bar |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:00:02 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070901) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-09-02 16:39 +0100, Jan Djärv wrote:
>> Today I suddenly found that the first icon and the second icon from the
>> left are substantially similar in functionality. The third icon is
>> likely to have a similar icon to the second one (some sort of directory
>> icon). Thus I think it might be better to remove the second icon from
>> the tool-bar. It make it look simpler yet doesn't reduce any
>> functionality.
>
> It does not reduce functionality per se, but the file open dialogs look and
> behave different.
The second one won't allow to open a non-existent file.
For beginners, the difference is not important or many of them fail to
realize the difference. And once they get used to Emacs, they start
turning tool-bar off anyway.
That the two icons behave substantially similarly creates confusion for
users.
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
Gnus is one component of the Emacs operating system.
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, (continued)
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/02
- Redundant icon in tool-bar (was: svn icons in the toolbar), Leo, 2007/09/02
- Re: Redundant icon in tool-bar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/02
- Re: Redundant icon in tool-bar,
Leo <=
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/05
- gmm-tool-bar-style (was: svn icons in the toolbar), Reiner Steib, 2007/09/26
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/02
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Leo, 2007/09/21
- Re: svn icons in the toolbar, Jan Djärv, 2007/09/21