On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 16:13 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > How is it that "a picture is worth a thousand words" yet current > GUI's hide important details. For years we had folders that all > looked the same even when they reside on very different > filesystems. Why do icons for disks often look like trashcans? At > least Gnome now uses a file cabinet icon for Files app, but it could > be animated to convey some information about the status, such as > starting to bulge when it is over 80% full, falling over when the > disk's S.M.A.R.T. status indicates a failure, etc. The ancient Macs used animated trashcans that did change shape. But more and more people are designing away the indicators on hardware and software. They think you don't need to know that the hard drive is working, or the network is transferring, or that the computer is booting and not stuck on something. Yes, I do need to know if data has stopped flowing to the drive, because there's a delay after the computer has told me it's safe to remove a drive before it actually is safe to remove it. I want to know whether something is not working because my network isn't working, or the problem is external. When the computer is taking longer to boot, I need to know why to do something about it, and I don't want to fire up an indepth analysis to do so. If I can see that a "waiting for something" message is sitting there for prolonged time, I can deal with it much quicker. Icon choices really annoy me, so many of them are just so completely arbitrary that they convey no meaning. You eventually get used to clicking on the third icon across by habit. And too many of them are too similar. On Evolution, the printer icon sits next to the trash icon, the printer icon looks like a paper shredder sitting on top of a rubbish bin. Never mind systems that just shovel masses of completely uncategorised random icons together so I've got to read through lots to find what I need. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 3 14:28:03 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
