[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Walter Bright]

On 1/23/2012 6:42 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> And all those apps made with some Borland toolkit, where 'exit' is an icon of a
> door, with an arrow in it.
>
> Makes me feel like I'm playing Pictionary.
>
> At a previous job, we got new desk telephones. They had 8 function keys, each
> with an icon which was completely incomprehensible. We gave the icons names:
> "two heads are better than one", "fall asleep on book", "hand holding an arrow",
> etc. We never worked out what any of them were for.
>
> The brand of phone was called "Easy". We wondered if they had a more advanced
> model with more difficult icons: "Mastered Alcatel Easy? Try Alcaltel Fiendishly
> Difficult!"

I've succumbed on occasion to iconitis, too. Take a look at the D web site! I 
even bought a CD of 50,000 icons. I still could not find an icon that clearly 
means "download". I suspect that one does not exist.

I made my own "icon" of a beetle, and clicking on that takes you to the bugzilla 
page.