On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Michael Bevilacqua wrote: > > > Tool Tips are quite possibly the most annoying feature of software today. > > Best exemplified, of course, by Windows toolbar task tray tooltips. > > "Hey, you plugged something in! Click here!" > "Hey, it turns out you plugged in a USB device! Click here!" > "Why, this USB device turns out to be a hard drive! Click here!" > "Hey, if you want to use the new drive, you can now! Click here!" > > Every. Damn. Time. > > Who the hell thinks software really should work this way?
Well I do, but only because I can figure out what stage failed to
work when it inevitably fails to work.
Linux kernel writers seem to agree, judging from the reams and reams
and reams of noise that your typical linux computer spits out when
booting.
And KDE writers used to agree -- just starting up a Konsole would
generate a ton of messages which no one ever read.
Neither of which are tool tips, but exemplify the spirit of dumping
out a ton of useless noise when a gnat in Lower Tunisia contemplates
scratching its ass.
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