401875 - Show some icons next to menu items

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, enhancement)

Description

[ivenna_6187323]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 SeaMonkey/1.1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 SeaMonkey/1.1.5

If we open menus on Seamonkey, let says for example bookmarks, there is no even a single icon there. The window filled with text and texts. Compared to Firefox, there are icons everywhere, which is good and look more interesting for the user.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put in some icons, not only text
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Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Having some icons in menus is surely a valid enhancement. In case someone would like to work on this this bug could serve as a meta bug for the different menus and themes (Classic/Default, Modern).

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

Extension fodder? There is/was an extension Crystal Menus.

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Comparing different browsers like Firefox, Opera and IE on Win7, none has icons for all menu entries (in fact most browsers hide the menu bar by default now, so I checked using the Alt key). They mostly use icons for bookmarks/favorites, favicons and main categories. SM already uses icons under the Bookmarks and Window menus, but e.g. not for the visited pages' favicons under Go (this may go into a separate bug if it doesn't already exist). Some add-ons add icons to their entries under Tools.

So in general I agree that this is not something that we should invest too much time and effort into. However I think we should enable people who want to do this to add icons easily. That means adding class="menuitem-iconic" on menu items where appropriate (like the Sync menu items under Tools) and maybe adjusting the internal CSS to make it look unchanged when no icon is present.