Re: File dialog

[Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G bigfoot com>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:
> Humans have evolved from pics to letters. Even languajes like Chinese
> do not use true pics anymore. If you study the origins of a "letter"
> you will find that it was a pic, but now all people would say "three
> horizontal bars", not "looks like a house" or "dog" or whatever (at
> least the non native).

Another problem with a point and grunt image is that you cannot easily
reveal to the user the shortcut key meant to access the function.  A little
image to indicate mime type can show more information, but the removal of
structured language from every day usage is a disturbing trend in "dumbing
down" rather than improving interfaces.


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