26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
11:42 a.m.
On Monday 25 June 2018 23:56:44 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2018-06-25 23:25:27 William Morder wrote:
Anything I can do to brighten your day. That's me, a ray of sunshine.
Bill
On Monday 25 June 2018 14:15:18 J Leslie Turriff
wrote:
Oh, thank you very much. :-)
On 2018-06-25 01:08:32 William Morder wrote:
Old people have less disposable income, so there's no reason to waste
time designing systems for them to use when they can't afford them
anyway. Also, old people tend to die sooner than young people, so it's a
shrinking market.
Bill I can't imagine that I am 100 years old, but
I can imagine that I am
60, and have already begun to feel the ravages of time on my body. It
also is a pain to use computer screens that are designed by and for
young people.
One of the reasons I'm not using KDE4/Plasma is that there are no
HiColor icons available there (AFAIK), just the wishy-washy pastel ones
that imitate Windoze. Their contrast is so poor it's hard for me to
distinguish one icon from another in many cases. As you say, today's
desktops are designed for young people, by young people, and the
limitations due to aging or other disabilities are not thought of,
while they seem to be concentrating on eye-candy instead of
functionality.
Leslie