Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode...
by tempguy9999 on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:44PM
(#20306214)
> and abandoning progress
Change is not, itself alone, progress.
Progress can be a lack of change, if that change was regression in functionality, q.v. the large and growing number of shitty interfaces.
And by interface I mean everything from boeing's mistake right down to the controls on a fan heater of mine.
I guess I need to explain the latter. I've had a period of joint pain in my hands due to a developing food intolerance (now under control). The fan heater control was a dial, partly flanged for grip. But just a fucking little flange, so as not to stick out too much. Trying to operate that with your digits hurting was a bitch. It would have been literally unusable for someone with strength loss from advanced age and some decent arthritis on top.
Interfaces are a very broad category in my view, and we have far too many bad ones. Anyway, sorry for the rant, but don't confuse change with better.
Change is not, itself alone, progress.
Progress can be a lack of change, if that change was regression in functionality, q.v. the large and growing number of shitty interfaces.
And by interface I mean everything from boeing's mistake right down to the controls on a fan heater of mine.
I guess I need to explain the latter. I've had a period of joint pain in my hands due to a developing food intolerance (now under control). The fan heater control was a dial, partly flanged for grip. But just a fucking little flange, so as not to stick out too much. Trying to operate that with your digits hurting was a bitch. It would have been literally unusable for someone with strength loss from advanced age and some decent arthritis on top.
Interfaces are a very broad category in my view, and we have far too many bad ones. Anyway, sorry for the rant, but don't confuse change with better.