Hi
Dani,
and what about view and editors?
Regards,
Matthias
Buttons
in dialogs should use text and that's what you see in almost
all our dialogs. It's also what Microsoft does in its
dialogs (can't speak for Mac or Linux).
-1
for using emojis.
Dani
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Date:
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11:47
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[cross-project-issues-dev] Text and / or Icons on Buttons /
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Dear Eclipse
experts,
today I had a
discussion with co-workers and I also want your feedback on
that topic.
It’s about Text
and/or Icons on (Standard) Buttons:
Today we see a lot
of dialogs in Eclipse where we have buttons that only have
text but no icons.
On example is
Platforms “Available Update Sites” preference page.
There we have Add,
Remove, Edit, … on the right hand side of the table.
Btw: Should the
“Edit” button not be “Edit…”?
Also JDT’s “Change
Method Signature” refactoring dialog has a similar pattern:
In contrast to that
let’s have a look at the “Rebase Interactive” view from EGIT:
Here we also have
buttons. But they all have icons and in addition they have
text below the icons. I find the UI design of the interactive
rebase view really good. The “first time users” (that maybe
don’t know the
meaning of some icons) can directly read the text (and don’t
need to hover with the mouse) and will (maybe) learn the
icons.
In addition there’s a context menu and we have key binding for
the various actions.
Let’s have a look at
an additional location of icons and text. The perspective
switcher:
Here we also have
Icons and text (but not on the right hand side) by default but
the “power user” can switch the text off.
What’s the reason
for not having icons on the other locations? The Add, Remove,
Up, Down and Edit buttons could also get icons (that already
either already exist in Eclipse or are known by “everybody”
from every day’s life).
Regards,
Matthias
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