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I'm not demonstrating your point for you, despite your continued insistence of that, and again, you really do seem to be refusing to read, not me. I agree it's
by PrimeMcFly 3y ago
I'm not demonstrating your point for you, despite your continued insistence of that, and again, you really do seem to be refusing to read, not me. I agree it's getting ridiculous.
Let me repeat something I said earlier since you apparently missed it:
If they don't want to read, as opposed to being unable to read, they are irrelevant to the point being made.
Now, do you actually have a useful point to make in response? Or just more nonsense about how I'm supposedly demonstrating your point despite that not being at all the case?
If the latter, since you already have said it's ridiculous, and I agree, I'd ask you simply not respond to end this chain here.
- Dalewyn 3y agoUsers who will not read are nonetheless absolutely relevant because they are still users of your program. Development resources are finite, so it's natural and proper to excise the unnecessary and focus on what is truly worth developing. If maintaining text is expensive (translations/localizations) and at least some users will not appreciate them anyway, why keep the text if just using icons is cheaper and can suffice? I don't agree with this trend, but I do understand and respect where it is coming from.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoI agree with your last point. I disagree though that just icons can suffice, only in the sense that productivity is lost because without text, there is not a way to easily distinguish between multiple instances of a program. The thing is, the text has to be maintained anyway, it's still there, for example in tooltips, so not giving users an option to show it has no real defense that I can see.