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

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 18:17:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

How about these?

http://images.google.com/search?q=download&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:i