SD card icon
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
The Raspberry Pi moved from using SD cards to microSD cards, when version 2 came out, some years back. Would it not be less confusing, especially for newcomers, if the beautiful SD card icon displayed here at the right were replaced by an icon showing a microSD card? Just a thought for keeping the ROOL website uptodate. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3130 posts |
Son picks up an old floppy. Looks at it. “Nice 3D print of the disc drive icon!” |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
Alas, the evanescence of media is an old story, millions of years old for biological media like us. Finding icons that do not become incomprehensible within a few years is an interesting exercise. How many people now understand the original pictograms behind our alphabet, for example? |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7932 posts |
We speak of “bit rot” round here, what’s the character equivalent “sound bite” for describing the disappearance of things like thorn? |
Dave Higton (1515) 3404 posts |
What are you talking about? |
John Williams (567) 768 posts | |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
See also this . |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
I was surprised when looking into something “this-related” that warranty and guarantee are really the same word – something which had never occurred to me before! It’s obvious if you pronounce the “u”! Sorry – we’re going a bit Aldershot here! |
Rick Murray (539) 13402 posts |
It’s an interesting exercise making icons, period. Was it Fresco that hid it’s hotlist behind a drawing of a chili? Chili, hot, hotlist… Now how well does that work in languages other than English? |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
One French translation for hotlist offered by Reverso is liste de signets – which conjures up an image for me for some reason of a row of small swans! I think Clive’s point earlier is very interesting:
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GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
I have always admired the icons used by the London underground. They have a coherent style. They are intelligible, I believe, to foreigners from many parts. They are easily understood, requiring little conscious effort. These criteria apply equally well to a GUI. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3130 posts |
Not my own, but I forget where I picked it up :( My son’s old enough to remember real floppies – not the 8" or 5.25" ones, but the final type. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7932 posts |
Which I seem to remember some referred to as “stiffies” since they didn’t flop that much. |
Rick Murray (539) 13402 posts |
I have an 8" around someplace. I think it came from an Osbourne? I kept it because, damn, it was big. Same reason I have a U-matic tape at the bottom of a box. I doubt either are readable, but it’s of historical interest. I mean, we can get hours of UHD video on a tiny µSD card. Here’s what came before the likes of VHS! Of course, it is also a lesson in format death. I’m not sure I have anything that can play my selection of ßetamax tapes, never mind anything older. Old file formats on old media, historical things suffer hardest. |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
Was that the Greek version? |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3130 posts |
I still have an 8" that came with a dead IBM wordprocessor I was given. I extracted the golfball typewriter from the machine and got it working standalone and used it for a year or two. Kept the floppy as a souvenir, it’s the only thing I’ve still got of it – apart from a huge transformer that I might use for something one day, who knows? Don’t have any 5.25s or 3.5s any longer, I don’t think. Son fiddling with the innards of the dead wordprocessor: https://www.deviantart.com/coshipi/art/Anything-Dad-can-do-2-11200041 Oops sorry – Aldershot ===> |