Re: [trinity-users] "Improving"/"Modernizing" the Look of TDE Considered Harmful

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, dep <dep(a)drippingwithirony.com> wrote: One of the reasons I am so glad that the Linux kernel and GNU tools are used so widely, is that the people programming for phones, for watches, for supercomputers, personal systems, are all working on what is in essence a common code base. The power-saving techniques of the battery-dependent are used by the massive data-center-filling mega-blasters because power bills matter. Even egotistical temper tantrums yield improvements to the central kernel functions. (scheduler) It would be nice if that same glorious lovingly hand optimized attention was spent making the GUI code tighter, faster, cleaner. But no, because there is no one GUI. Like the automobile, each GUI programmer, each GUI style, each GUI model-year, they change and fiddle and make things oh so very pretty without concern for such trivial matters as actually getting work done. So while you can find the Austen Mini of GUIs if you try, you're much more likely to see huge tailfins and fancy radiator caps that don't actually do anything to get the work done. Bling. Bloat. Idle distractions. Well said. That apparent waste of resources is also why games have gotten more and more graphical, more and more focused on "frames per second", and less about actual game play. What was done on two 5.25" floppy disks with StarFlight was spectacular. What those programmers packed into such a small space should serve to humble the people who call themselves "programmers" today, the same way taking a helicopter to the top of Mt. Everest cannot compare to the pioneers who walked the whole way. The speed of hardware has eliminated any motivation to optimize the user's interface. Curt-