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.
