1154657 - Remove XP variants of icons/images

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1323810

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Alfred Kayser]

Why not just remove all these XP variants? XP is now only used very minimally, and it won't hurt to use the "default" icons across all Windows variants.

Comment 1

[Alfred Kayser]

Example of very similar images, where it won't hurt use the default also for XP:
mozilla/browser/themes/windows/loop/menuPanel.png 
mozilla/browser/themes/windows/loop/menuPanel-aero.png

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Alfred Kayser from comment #0)
> Why not just remove all these XP variants? XP is now only used very
> minimally, and it won't hurt to use the "default" icons across all Windows
> variants.

XP still has a ~17% market share according to <http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx>. That's more than all versions of OS X and Linux combined.

Having said that, it's certainly a dying OS and its remaining users probably don't care a lot about most of our current XP-specific optimizations, so we should look for opportunities to stop catering for XP. See bug 1154660 comment 1.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Alfred Kayser from comment #0)
> Why not just remove all these XP variants? XP is now only used very
> minimally, and it won't hurt to use the "default" icons across all Windows
> variants.

FWIW, we still also have separate vista/7 variants for the toolbar and menupanel icons, which means removing the XP items still won't use the "default" icons everywhere. As Dão said, I think the marketshare status is such that removing our XP styling support (or significantly compromising on it by giving it win8 icons or something like this) is a bad idea.

We're likely to add new variants of the main icons for Windows 10, which makes the case for removing just one set of these even less compelling, IMO.

We just need to get on with moving the overrides to a theme-specific manifest file so this won't bother third-party themes.

Comment 4

[Stephen Horlander [:shorlander]]

At this point I don't think backporting some more modern stylistic elements to XP would necessarily be a bad thing. But I think it depends on how it's done and what the result is. Which would take some design time to figure out.