3 Jan
2013
3 Jan
'13
3:39 p.m.
On Thursday 03 January 2013 22:16:15 JB wrote:
I truly miss the icons and themes of the old
KDE's. They were crisp and
clean and not "muddied" as another poster said many of the new ones are
(which I agree with).
Quite!
And I've been saying that other thing for years
on other forums with
other things (the pwc drivers for Philips webcam's is just one that comes
to mind)...it seems though that folks becoming devs nowadays have never
heard such sayings and oftentimes seem to not care.
:-)
As soon as I hear the word "dated" I start to squirm!
Did you hear about the London Millennium bridge? They call it the wobbly
bridge. (I just put "the wobbly bridge" into Google. I was offered ten
pages of hits!)
It was designed by an architect (I ask you! Have they not heard of
engineers??). He designed it to be new and exciting and *modern*. He
deliberately designed it in a way that no bridge had ever been designed
before.
He found out why no bridge had ever been designed that way before, as soon as
they opened it. It is a pedestrian bridge. As the first batch of people (a
large batch, mind you) crossed it, it started to sway. Not an imperceptible
amount. A pronounced sway, like a child's crib. They had to close it and
put in struts. It is now functional, but not beautiful.
Hopefully, next time London needs a bridge they will employ an engineer!
Lisi