1696658 - Some icons are missing with Proton enabled

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, enhancement)

Description

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2021-03-05 at 9.43.36 AM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open the hamburger or library menu

Actual results:

The icons are missing, they are helpful to quickly find things

Expected results:

The old icons, or icons updated for proton should be there

Comment 1

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

Attachment: Library menu

Comment 2

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2021-03-05 at 9.46.54 AM.png

Comment 3

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

Sorry, the above image is with proton disabled

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Theme' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 5

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Hi, This is intended behavior in Nightly 88 since its related to the new Proton design.
Mike can you confirm please ? can we close this issue ?

Comment 6

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

In that case I think that you should consider adding some icons, since it makes scanning through the menus much faster.

Comment 7

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) (PTO Dec 22 - Jan 2)]

Yes, this is intended behaviour.

Comment 8

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

Could you share why you want the icons removed in proton?

Comment 9

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) (PTO Dec 22 - Jan 2)]

Proton is an effort to reorganize and clean up parts of the user interface. We believe that the value that icons in the menu add is outweighed by the effects of reducing the visual noise in the panel. Our internal testing and user studies have demonstrated that users find the effect cleaner and easier to navigate.

Comment 10

[alexios]

when did you conduct those user studies? i never saw a single survey or anything related.
at least provide an option in the about:preferences so we can reenable them

Comment 11

[WIlliam Davis [:AwesomeSheep48]]

I can't open that link, what is it?

Comment 12

[Julien Chaupitre]

We are using JIRA to track Proton project progress, bugzilla remains the source of truth, you can safely ignore this link.

Comment 13

[Matthijs Wensveen]

Would it be possible to have this as an option?
For comparison, Chrome/Chromium and Safari (I think) don't have menu icons but Edge does.

As a matter of personal preference, I like the icons, but I understand the need to remove visual noise. However, the menu panel is only open when the user wants to take a specific action (settings, or add-ons, for example). Instead of scanning the text for a specific item, which takes one or two seconds, an icon is immediately noticeable.

Comment 14

[regs]

This is very unprofessional. Lack of icons greatly reducing usability.