lucky13
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Posted: June 26 2007,13:15 |
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It's called "MyDSL."
| Quote | | I did look at Rox filer last night and it makes viewing documents so much easier. There's a lot to be said for images over text. |
People are going to have very different views about this because some are a lot more graphically-aware than text-aware. I think that's why Apple has had success with left-brain types like artists compared to more right-brain types like researchers and accountants who simply want something that crunches numbers, never mind if the inputs and outputs are graphical.
Rox has a big edge when looking at images since they can be viewed as thumbnails instead of as file names. I don't think it makes much difference if you're looking at file.txt in rox or emelfm -- either way you're looking for a file name unless you associate a unique icon for files (which I do by adding MIME-types to distinguish between different kinds of text files, such as adding .log for files that pertain to the computer -- but the same could be done in emelfm by adding the MIME and giving it a unique color).
mikshaw:| Quote | | There are very few icons I look at and can even figure out what the image *is*, nevermind what it symbolizes. |
I agree with you about certain icons, particularly for applications. I think, though, there are ways to use MIME types to associate data with certain icons -- whether the icon says "text" or "spreadsheet" or has a very clear representation of what that file is (see any of the screenshots posted at my blog).
As far as having an icon AND text, I don't have a problem with that since a box full of MIME-type-text icons isn't going to be very useful. The text under those icons generally tell you a file name, not a file type. That's different from well-conceived and more generic application icons that represent what application is (e.g., an envelope for an e-mail application). I think one of the best sets of icons in this respect were the ones included in NeXT, but early versions of Mac were also more intuitive (before there were myriad applications available).
I'm not pro- or anti-icon, I just want useful and intuitive icons. I'm familiar enough with certain applications that I know the logos and make associations that way. That works well on my own computer. If I'm setting something up for someone else, I don't make any presumptions and try to use icons that are basic and represent what pressing them will do.
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