Comment 104 for bug 407621

I also thought there was a bug when I noticed missing icons in the main menu, that's why I came across this page.

I appreciate the idea of UI "consistence" and "balance", but it's getting too inefficient. Let me explain: my OS is in Russian while lots of programs still miss the Russian documentation (or have 50-90% or so), tutorials etc., so I usually read it in English. English docs and how-to stuff on the internet have lots of screenshots: where to locate the menu, where to click etc. The trick is that every time I read some article, I need to map the English-language interface which I see on a pic to the Russian-language interface which I have on my machine. It was a pretty simple task prior to 9.10: I just relied on icons. Now, with icons gone, it's very frustrating (I'm glad that the option can be reverted, but since every ubuntu release I have to make more and more actions to make simple things work, I'm like feeling this option will disappear in 10.04 - so please, make icons default :) ).