Re: two or more lines of icons

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:29:36PM +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Oct 2003, galibert(a)pobox.com wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:39:52PM +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> >> And the point of copying the windows UI disasters into XEmacs is? > Why disasters? would Xemacs become more instable because of more > icons? I said _UI_ disaster. Apart from a very small number of extremely conventional icons, they pretty much suck at conveying any useful meaning. > I was pointed to kile /kile.sourceforge.net/ which comes with a lot > of integrated icons. Does this make the application unstable, if>> so, why? Unstable, I wouldn't know. Unusable, oh yes. http://kile.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Let's just leave aside the MDI setup and the fact that the application tries simultaneously to be an IDE, Word and a LaTeX editor and fails miserably at all three, and let's have a look at the icon bar. We do not need this crap in XEmacs, especially for the sake of windows users that want more icons just because that looks cool. The menubar sucks already enough as it is (even if it is better than some years ago, but the option menu needs to die for instance, and the help menu needs a manual for itself), we do not need to add multi-lines of useless crap.