GNOME Goal: Gear Icons
Gear menus are a common feature of GNOME 3 style applications. Until now, the emblem-system-symbolic icon has been used for these button menus. There are two issues with this, which this goal aims to address:
- Using emblem-system-symbolic is an abuse of the icon specification - it is neither a system option, nor an emblem. This makes it harder for people to use different icon themes. It also makes it difficult to maintain the icon theme.
- User testing has revealed that the gear icon itself can be misleading - a number of test participants thought that these menus contained settings, rather than actions. We are currently experimenting with using an icon made of three lines (using a dedicated icon will allow us to adjust this if necessary):
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Guidelines
Applications that use gear menus should change emblem-system-symbolic to open-menu-symbolic.
Applications that construct a gear menu button by manually placing a GtkImage inside a GtkMenuButton can be simplified by setting the GtkMenuButton::direction property to GTK_ARROW_NONE (or 'none', for short). GtkMenuButton will then use the new view-context-menu-symbolic icon.
File bugs against documentation which refers to a "gear" menu or is not explicit in naming the menu.
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