String wrote:
> On Jul 28, 12:22 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> android.R.drawable.ic_menu_preferences.
>> I suggested that once on this list, and a member of the core Android
>> team pointed out that this is a really bad idea, since those resource
>> values might change, or the underlying graphics might change.
> 
> Funny, I got the idea from the Dev Guide, where it's given as a Best
> Practice: 
> http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html#menuapx

That *is* interesting. It was some of those very images that I was
commenting about.

Since the guidelines came out after my discussion on the topic, the
guidelines should be correct.

> Admittedly, that's just for a subset of the images (menu and status
> bar icons), but hopefully that implies that these resources at least
> aren't going to be renamed. Beyond what's on that list, I agree, it's
> probably better to make a copy.

Agreed.

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