PuTTY is a supurb tool. Thank you so much for your efforts over the years.
Iconography of the PuTTY tools
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Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perfectly documented warning stickers for everything is such a British thing. Together with fused plugs and on/off switches for every socket. As a foreigner who lived in London for a few years I believe the UK leads the world in self-deprecation. No country complains about itself more while being so absurdly well-organized.
> No country complains about itself more while being so absurdly well-organized. I’ve noticed Australians seem to have a similar issue: they decry the Nanny State at home, but all the ones I’ve met abroad complain about the current location being insufficiently nannified. Often both complaints in the same conversation. Finally: Italians. I thought a trip from Milan to Rome was going to be like a trip through Somalia…
LOL, that struck home. While I'm living in Germany now, I lived in Napoli from 2004 to 2009 and I have to agree with our Italian friends: Italy south of Rome is a markedly different country and experience.
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to stare at terminals for hours and hours with light grey on the blue background. White on blue is a little too saturated
I believe, you and I are talking about the same colour when I say "white" and you say "light grey". Specifically, I mean colour 7, and I believe you do as well. In the CGA and EGA palettes, colour 7 is commonly called both "white" and "light grey." Colour 15, on the other hand, is typically called "bright white" or "high-intensity white", which is indeed too saturated. When I said "white," I was referring to colour 7…
I think you’re right. NSCA Telnet was by far my most used floppy disk until I got a network connection in my dorm room.
My roommate sweet talked the housing people into letting us have a second land line (ethernet was still being piloted in a different dorm) so we could log in from our room. It’s a wonder that I was surprised when he ended up in management.
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
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> the more material design… I see, the more I experience feelings of distrust and skepticism. One of the tenets of material design seems to be that a rectangle should not reveal its true nature until you click on it. It might be a button, a text box, or just a rectangle!
Any reason for that?
The reason is that.. it's not, actually!
Like, individual websites might do their own weird takes and have their own design systems which are mistaken for 'material design', but I don't think you can fault Google for making text boxes too similar to buttons.
Text fields https://m3.material.io/components/text-fields/overview - underlined or outlined, have their title text
Buttons https://m3.material.io/components/all-buttons - fully colored or outlined, may have a shadow, more rounded, differently-styled
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#95> I can’t remember why the lightning bolt was yellow. With hindsight that seems the strangest thing about it; cyan would have been a more obvious choice for electricity. Possibly it was just to contrast more with the blue screens of the computers. I had to stop and consider this, because it seemed to me that yellow was "obviously" the correct color. And indeed a few image searches confirmed this: a yellow lightning b…
In “Avatar: the Last Airbender”, there’s one-ish characters who can bend lightning, and to the credit of the animators, it is indeed depicted as cyan colored
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#96Gotta say something is lost moving from Bitmap to svg, there’s a certain charm to the “graininess” of bitmap
I like the pixel art better, but I think there's more to it than that. You can't just do a 1:1 translation and expect good results. (Also, it's not 1:1, the outlines are way thinner in SVG.) With low res art, your imagination fills in the gaps. The higher the resolution, the higher the quality you need. (Vector art has infinite resolution by definition.)
Yes! I don't know why outlines in pixel art are so often screwed up when up-scaled to high DPI - it's the reason I install posy's mouse cursors on my high dpi windows machines, they look as close to the old pixel cursors as possible
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#97> I think that’s probably because the 1990s styling is part of what makes PuTTY what it is – “reassuringly old-fashioned” This is definitely something that attracts me to PuTTY. There _is_ something reassuring about applications that look the way PuTTY does - maybe the aged look projects stability due to lack of change, maybe it's just the additional cohesion from using OS primitives, I'm not sure. What I am sure of…
>the additional cohesion from using OS primitives I miss using win32 software. It was the best: simple, quick to render, clean and information-dense. Now everything uses large "modern Windows" widgets or, even worse, Electron.
If Microsoft had instead created a modern alternative for Win32 that was equally performant and bullshit-free, Electron would have never seen the light of day.
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No country complains about itself more while being so absurdly well-organized. I’ve noticed Australians seem to have a similar issue: they decry the Nanny State at home, but all the ones I’ve met abroad complain about the current location being insufficiently nannified. Often both complaints in the same conversation. Finally: Italians. I thought a trip from Milan to Rome was going to be like a trip through Somalia…
That’s not my experience of Australians at all! The Australians I’ve met (through working for an Australian company) all seem to love their nanny state, and genuinely don’t understand how anyone could see anything undesirable in it.
It might be useful here to give a current example or two of Aussie nanny statism, just for context
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perfectly documented warning stickers for everything is such a British thing. Together with fused plugs and on/off switches for every socket. As a foreigner who lived in London for a few years I believe the UK leads the world in self-deprecation. No country complains about itself more while being so absurdly well-organized.
"while being so absurdly well-organized." I note a z in organized ... I do get where you are coming from: My mum used to joke about a fictional sign that said "Please do not throw stones at this sign". Some of our signage is absolutely laughable. We do have road signs that proclaim: "New signage" or "New road system" etc. The locals know what has changed already and non locals are encountering it for the first time a…
> I note a z in organized ...
I think high school English in my country is officially British English, but practically we all learn from reading American media.
Re: Iconography of the PuTTY tools
#100> I can’t remember why the lightning bolt was yellow. With hindsight that seems the strangest thing about it; cyan would have been a more obvious choice for electricity. Possibly it was just to contrast more with the blue screens of the computers. I had to stop and consider this, because it seemed to me that yellow was "obviously" the correct color. And indeed a few image searches confirmed this: a yellow lightning b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_electricity
> The Neo-Latin adjective electricus, originally meaning 'of amber'
Seems like electricity and amber have been tied together for a long time.
This rules out the idea it comes from safety signs. I also dont buy the safety sign origin as the graphics are always in black and the background is yellow.