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Bug 21696 - Avoid unnecessary images
Avoid unnecessary images
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
LiquidThreads (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Andrew Garrett
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support
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Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2009-11-30 03:02 UTC by Purodha Blissenbach
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
screen shot showing screen clutter by unnecessary images (51.98 KB, image/png)
2009-11-30 03:24 UTC, Purodha Blissenbach
Details

Description Purodha Blissenbach 2009-11-30 03:02:28 UTC
When the page http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Support
has been altered from a normal talk page, lists of
links and images have been added to it, almost everywhere.
Since these images are completely unnecessary, only adding
to general screen clutter and wasting space and bandwidth
and user attention, I suggest to remove them. If someone
insists in having them, I suggest making them an option
in her user preferences.

See attached screen shot.
Comment 1 Purodha Blissenbach 2009-11-30 03:24:01 UTC
Created attachment 6844 [details]
screen shot showing screen clutter by unnecessary images
Comment 2 Siebrand Mazeland 2009-11-30 12:35:49 UTC
I think usability studies (not only for Wikimedia) have resulted in the understanding that users work better with software if there are (proper) icons connected to functionality. I would not support getting rid of the icons.
Comment 3 Andrew Garrett 2009-11-30 16:31:19 UTC
Icons are useful.

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