"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:jfk7t3$2l8v$2...@digitalmars.com... > On 1/23/2012 3:51 AM, foobar wrote: >> A few additional points: >> # Microsoft allegedly does a lot of usability research and they came up >> with the >> upcoming Metro design which relies on text instead of icons. # Regarding >> the >> English language - Icons are supposed to be universal so it saves money >> for >> companies to localize their software. Localized UIs do present a trade >> off in >> usability: It depends which terminology is more common, the local or the >> foreign >> (English). E.g. "print" is easy to translate and would be intuitive for >> non >> techies but "bittorent" probably isn't. > > One huge issue with "universal" icons is that each company copyrights > theirs. So every user interface uses deliberately different icons.
IP is evil. That's what I love about China: Not much respect for IP. Thanks to China's disregard for such things, I have an adaptor that lets me use the fantastic DualShock2 on Xbox1, GC or PC. That would *never* happen in the US or any heavily-US-influenced country. The corporations and lawyers just wouldn't allow it.
