Screenshot of what to remove
http://www.scottpetrovic.com/uploads/kr ... icons.jpeg

Reasoning...

1. KDE icons (full color) against Krita specific icons (monochromatic). These are two different art styles and makes the overall application look less consistent.

2. Most applications have abandoned icons in the main menu. I did a quick google search and looked to see if other art applications use icons in their main menu.

Photoshop - no
ArtRage - no
Corel Painter - no
Manga Studio - no
MyPaint - no
GIMP - yes


3. There are only icons for about 10% of all of the menu items. It makes menu items with icons appear more important than those with just text.

There are other areas that have this issue as well, but I think we can just start with the main menu.

Thoughts? Is this too much work? These menus are shared across everything in Calligra correct?

I remember already disabling the menu icons on Windows and OSX. I never saw them on Linux, because I disable them system-wide in KDE.

It's this bit of code:

#if defined Q_OS_WIN
KisTabletSupportWin::init();
app.setEventFilter(&KisTabletSupportWin::eventFilter);
app.setAttribute(Qt::AA_DontShowIconsInMenus);
#elif defined Q_WS_X11
KisTabletSupportX11::init();
app.setEventFilter(&KisTabletSupportX11::eventFilter);
#endif

in main.cc

Now, given that KDE allows the user to configure this setting, I think that in KDE we will have to honor the systemwide setting, for other desktops, we could disable the icons hard-coded.

interesting. I didn't realize KDE had global settings like that. I think we should honor that setting as well. We can leave it as is. It really isn't that big of a deal.

thanks for response.

We could fine-tune, though, and disable the icons unless KDE_FULL_SESSION in true.