[sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars & Tabs (or lack thereof)

[Albert Cahalan]

Eben Eliason writes:

> 1. Toolbar buttons use icons instead of text as an identifier.  Beyond
> the icon, we depend on the content of the toolbar to help define the
> tab, with a textual name being superfluous.  This makes localization
> easier (well, free) and prevents text from being cut off in due to
> translation.

I hope you don't mean to suggest eliminating the text.
Reading should be encouraged, not banished.

Tux Paint, a program commonly used by kids who are many years
younger than school age, is full of text. It is all localized.
We deal with problems (text being cut off, etc.) as they happen.

Putting text labels on everything is an excellent way to encourage
reading. It is very sad that the hardware isn't covered in labels,
but at least the hardware has a bit of an excuse. (logistics)
Software has no such excuse; every icon needs text.