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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Animated Menu's
From:       Dave Leigh <dave.leigh () cratchit ! org>
Date:       2000-05-10 12:56:21
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Falk Brettschneider wrote:

> Dave Leigh wrote:
> >
> > I couldn't agree more.  And I'm somebody who DOES have the CPU power to
> > spare.
> >
> > Animated menus, animated icons, and such things generally have no
> > practical function.  They're distracting and useless.
> Once ago, in the beginning 90s, I heard simimlar things from older
> people, just like:
> "We do not need graphics mode or desktops. It only wastes ressources and
> CPU. Everything can be done in text mode." Man, you want to create
> end-user applications, even the desktop is also fashion, not only work!
> ;-)

Fashion, hmm.  A good-looking tie is fashionable.  A blinking tie is
stupid.  But you can live without any tie at all.  The same can be said for
GUIs.

That said, there are people in the world who will buy a blinking tie (I know
one!).

Re-read my post, please, I was agreeing with Ken that these useless bells
and whistles belong in the Options menu, OFF by default.  I certainly don't
mean they should be left off entirely.

But if it's fashion you interested in, Animated menus are to a "fashionable
GUI" what Spike Jones is to music.  This, of course, is In My Humble
Opinion. <g>

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