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Re: [trinity-users] "Improving"/"Modernizing" the Look of TDE Considered Harmful

From: Felmon Davis <davisf@...>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:27:36 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Sunday 17 November 2013 19:44:53 Felmon Davis wrote:
>> that said, I wholly concur with his opinion though.
>
> So you concur that TDE looks old-fashioned and should change?

I was addressing Alexandre about Glen's remarks. the 'his' refers to 
Glen's remarks, not Alexandre's.

>> I am also interested in suggestions that enhance function.
>
> So you want the look to change, but TDE to remain functional??  That
> is interesting.  I think that in the end bling and functionality make
> poor companions because they appeal to different people on the whole.
>
> For some of us bling actually hampers functionality, and the designers
> of bling appear to have little interest in how the thing works.  (In
> my experience the same applies nowadays to cookers and kitchen
> sinks - functionality is being abandoned on the altar of bling!)

I also concur with _your_ remarks except I know nothing about cookers 
and I've got no altar in my kitchen.

F.

-- 
Felmon Davis

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.  -- Emerson