[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 124649] Menubar: Show icons for the most important items

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124649

Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@gmail.com> ---
The MSDN guideline [1] says:

Consider providing menu item icons for:

* The most commonly used items.
* Menu items whose icon is standard or well known.
* Menu items whose icon well illustrates what the command does.

Don't feel obligated to provide icons for commands that don't have a standard
visualization. Cryptic icons aren’t helpful, create visual clutter, and prevent
users from focusing on the important menu items.

That makes a lot of sense as the use case of icons is primarily not being a
visual candy but an eye-catcher for frequently used items. If we show an icon
one every single item the user finds to visual attractor and gets rather
disturbed. So a +1 to this change. The circumstance is covered in our HIG by
the mentioned sentence.

Question is, of course, what items are "most commonly used" and "well-known
standards". But that's a detail question and better handled at the patch or per
follow-up.

[1]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/menus

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