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Displaying system menu and other menus Icons added since Tiki 29 should be optional

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Displaying system menu and other menus Icons added since Tiki 29 should be optional
Version
29.x
master
Category
  • Usability
Feature
UI / UX (User interface and experience)
Resolution status
New
Submitted by
Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
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Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
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Description

Since Tiki29 we have (for those where it work 😉 ) icons for each menu items.

This is nice and ok on the system menu where we have space around the menu items.
When you deploy a sub-menu it really start to be a lot of things in front of the eyes.

Overall the actuel implementation (not collapsable see related item) doesn't add a lot for the user experience.
By that I mean the following and this is my opinion (wearing glasses 🤓);

1. Does it make easier to find the right item the user is looking for in System Menu (one of the goal of having an icon instead of text) on desktop:

  • Discutable, but let's say it improve a bit for the System menu so a little +.


2. Does it make easier to find the right item the user is looking for in the Settings Menu on desktop:

  • Not really, the menu look really crowded without enough spacing and adding icons just make it harder to read.


3. Does it make easier to find the right item the user is looking for in other features sub-menu items on desktop:

  • Not really, these are 3 to 8 menu-items adding icons just make it harder to read.


4. On Mobile...I could not test at https://29x.demo.tiki.org/tiki-index.php the menu is broken on mobile.

5. Does this help reclaiming space (another purpose of having icons is to display a little understanble visual small element instead of text): No, the collapsable option has been removed from the UAB. (😳)

6. Does this help with translations (another purpose of having icons is to display a little understanble visual small element instead of text): Yes icons help in a certain way. I'm not convinced as so far I still need to read the text to know where witll lead my clicking on a link.

At this point, where it is just nice to have icons, I think that having icons in ALL the menus should be optional... as it should have been in the first place.

See: https://ibb.co/Ps8YBhtb, https://ibb.co/4w5STNJW

Solution
Workaround
Importance
5
Easy to solve?
5
Priority
25
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
8855
Created
Wednesday 29 October, 2025 08:34:32 UTC
by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
LastModif
Wednesday 29 October, 2025 08:44:25 UTC


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