Comment 2 for bug 621258

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 621258] Re: Ubuntu One menu items inappropriately have icons

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:06 +0000, David Barth wrote:
> Matthew, can you attach a reference fo the design guidelines for icons
> in menus? Ie we want to suppress icons from menus in general. Yet, there
> are legitimate usages for icons afaict, and I'd like to understand how
> the different modules can enforce the rules.
>
> Ie, should it be appmenu that prevents all icons from showing up? But
> then, how can it distinguish which icons we legitimately need to
> display?
>
> Should appmenu enforce that rule for KDE apps as well?

The rule has previously been -- do what the applications say. Let's fix
the apps that are broken. We can't really have a generic policy for
things like Firefox bookmarks, etc as we don't have enough information
to make a good choice. Only the application has that information.