Are there plans to show icons only in macOS Toolbars?

[johnzhou721]

In the screenshots provided in #4635 we see that both icon and text are displayed on macOS toolbars. Most if not all macOS apps use icon only on toolbars these days, as it saves space; icons on macOS are also mostly self-descriptive and encodes the functionality or action one needs to differentiate it from others.

Is there plans for Toga to do the same? I'd guess not, because Toga is cross-platform and we cna't guarantee that the user will provide macOS-compatible icons that do not need further description. This is why I'm filing a discussion and not an issue; but if the answer is No then I can implement the same functionality in a 3rd-party library.

[freakboy3742]

Are there plans to make this change? No. Should there be plans to do this? Quite possibly.

I agree that having text descriptions on toolbar icons is unusual on macOS. It was the convention years ago, but successive GUI changes have moved away from that convention.

On that basis, I could get behind dropping the labels as part of this recent iteration of aligning toolbar rendering with macOS conventions. The icons still have tooltips available.