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Re:Gmail Icons are Hard by airstrike on Monday May 14, 2018 @01:33PM (#17067458)
Except that forces you to hover over each one of them until you find what you're looking for, rather than simply writing out e.g. "Mark as SPAM" or "Mark as read"
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Re:Gmail Icons are Hard by robbrown451 on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:08PM (#17068469)
Until you learn what they mean, and then you get the advantage of more fits on the screen, and arguably, quicker mental processing (I'd say it takes less work to find an icon than to pick out the right text label).
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