That’s a pure bullshit, guys! I probably may understand some people don’t like icons in menus and buttons, but hey, what’s the matter, don’t you see that almost 95% of users LIKE the icons? They are used to it and that’s really cool to have nice coloured live menus instead of dumb, boring and dry text-based only ones.
Default setting MUST enable icons, as well as browser mode for Nautilus! That is what most users need.
Making them disabled by default is killing the Gnome. That has been a really stupid decision not only from my own perspective, but also from the perspective of all colleagues and the friends of mine!

Please, open your eyes, guys! People want sexy UI.
It should not necessarily be a “festival of colours” (some people like emotions, some people don’t), but it must be a picture anyway – not a lonely text. That’s for sure.

I bet you – reconsider! Long live the GNOME!

I also think that gnome made just a bit to much strange new defaults and gnome certainly doesn’t listen to user feedback. I even started (unintended) a flamewar about the spatial vs browser mode and it was more then obvious that browser mode is what most users want yet gnome persists on forcing spatial mode.. I know it can be changed!

Sad but true. A gnome fork that cleans up the current default setting mess (among things) would certainly get my support.

@Nilsson what was the motivation for accepting this new default? since it “seems” most users dislike it.

And next time, try to stay away from insults like telling me I have a rotten brain or try to imply that I have the mindset of a terrible regime. That kind of arguments seldom helps moving the discussion forward.
Hugs from Sweden.

Foolish idiotic lame weak decision. I can perfectly understand torvalds for calling the gnome interface designed by *****, a few years ago. Gnome just doesn’t learn from it’s gigantic big ass mistakes and just keeps on making them. The kinds of things gnome people decide make me think they are mentally insane.

I vote for a gnome fork that reverts all idiotic brain tumors like this and spatial vs browser. I would even vote for kicking spatial out all together!

Do i have something against gnome? You bet i have! It was, for the last few years, the best desktop environment because there was nothing better. KDE WAS to unstable. Now with KDE 4.3.3 it all seems to work just fine so i urge people to let gnome rot and die fast and use KDE or make a gnome fork. And the next huge mistake that is about to happen is the gnome 3.0 interface.. so much time WASTED.

GNOME, You just don’t get it! your usability SUCKS because there is none. The so called HIG document of gnome is equally worthless. Take an example of the Mac HIG. And don’t COPY it but IMPROVE it. the icon part should not be copied but improved. But again that’s probably to much to ask for mentally ill and rotten brains.

Why do i post this message on this blog?
Well, the blog owner “Andreas Nilsson” did fully agree with https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557469 and would have even gone a bit further:

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Matthew: I agree to what you’re saying, because we certainly need some sort of
guidance. Currently applications tend to have icons for everything in their
menus, except for the cases where the artist said “no, I don’t have time to
draw that”. I still have some questions though.
Does save-as that use a hard drive + arrow count as object, or does that count
as action? (I guess the latter, just want clarification)
Do you mean file like in the Open Recent menu in GIMP, or something else?
I guess what I’m asking for is examples.

Anyway, +1 from me
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And your later posts in that report also show you fully agree which makes you one of those rotten brains as well.

Normally i’m hard in what i say but not as hard as in this message. I USED to be worried about the direction of gnome and USED to be willing to help gnome. Not anymore. Gnome is ill beyond recovery and can, in my opinion, only recover under a fork that has a DEMOCRACY instead of a MERITOCRACY. The gnome that i see now and the coming versions are dead for me. A gnome fork is the way to go for devs and while that is under development all the users should steer away from gnome as fast as possible and switch to KDE. Far more superior then Gnome anyway.

Ab “hb” said, it’s more easy for teachers to point out to menu entries/buttons if they have symbols, same is true for tech support.

And what about the visually impaired? You could get along with the icons quite good… but only text? Or if you work in an environment where you have to work with desktops with different languages and you can’t switch the language everytime? You could get along with the icons..

Just turning them off with the reason “..reducing visual clutter” is no good.

The whole discussion in the bugtracker of gnome seems weird to me.. it’s like a rough, unshaped idea which has been converted into real code just by chance and now some people were just caught off guard.. “…hey wait.. what? Where are my icons? There was a discussion about it? Indeed?”