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Quotes of the week
This is the fruit of an 8 hour debugging session. I hate writer.
— Caolán McNamara, commenting on a one-line,
eleven-character commit. (Hat tip to Cesar Eduardo Barros)
There is a lot to lose when you centralize something that should
really be left to the application authors. The app icon is the
app's identity. Sure it's more difficult to convince the upstream
to take your work despite it not being created by an algorithm,
but taking away a project's identity in the name of policing the
aesthetics of the overview is not the right approach.
— Jakub Steiner
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Quotes of the week Posted Mar 15, 2013 7:25 UTC (Fri) by jwarnica (subscriber, #27492) [Link]
I'm old enough to remember Windows 3.0. Or is it Windows 3.1? And the abundance of choices in [something-MSFT-provided].ico. Maybe within system.exe? Ok: I'm old enough to vaguely remember something.
They weren't great, I grant, and no commercial product would be willing to risk being one of the ~300 or so reasonably non-shitty provided icons.
Does Gnome and KDE not provide less than crap for their defaults? Or did they only provide crap when choosing a default icon ID was first available?
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 16, 2013 9:43 UTC (Sat) by efraim (subscriber, #65977) [Link]
You are probably thinking about moricons.dll. In later Windows versions Explorer.exe also contained quite a collection.
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