On Tuesday 26 June 2018 05:54:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2018 01:56:23 Kate Draven wrote: > > > On Monday 25 June 2018 21:30:31 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > On Monday 25 June 2018 14:15:18 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > > > > > On 2018-06-25 01:08:32 William Morder wrote: > > > > > > > I can't imagine that I am 100 years old, but I can imagine > > > > > > > that I am 60, and have already begun to feel the ravages of > > > > > > > time on my body. > > > > It > > > > > > > > > also > > > > > > > > is > > > > > > > > > > > a pain to use computer screens that are designed by and for > > > > > > > young > > > > > > > > people. > > > > > > > > > > One of the reasons I'm not using KDE4/Plasma is that there > > > > > > are no HiColor icons available there (AFAIK), just the > > > > > > wishy-washy pastel > > > > ones > > > > > > > > that imitate Windoze. Their contrast is so poor it's hard for > > > > > > me to > > > > > > > > distinguish > > > > > > > > > > one icon from another in many cases. As you say, today's > > > > > > desktops are designed for young people, by young people, and > > > > > > the limitations due to aging or other disabilities are not > > > > > > thought of, while they seem to be concentrating on eye-candy > > > > > > instead of functionality. > > > > > > > > > > > > Leslie > > > > > > > > > > Old people have less disposable income, so there's no reason to > > > > > waste time designing systems for them to use when they can't > > > > > afford them anyway. Also, old people tend to die sooner than > > > > > young people, so it's a shrinking market. > > > > > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >----- > > > > > > > > Only fools count the marginalized out. > > > > > > > > Kate > > > > AKA Konfucius > > > > > > "... my super-dainty Kate - > > > For dainties are all Kates -" > > > (or thus quoth another bloke named William) > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >- > > > > LOL you're alright mate, and a mighty poet. > > Me great grandmother always said the above to encourage me. > > I was a wee child (and adult now) so everyone always assumed I was > > incapable. They were wrong lol. > > > > Most of the people I have using Linux are over the age of 60. About, > > hmm, 40 something people. Then about a dozen kids. It's because of the > > high numbers of pensioners that I'm trying to get qtcurve to use > > background images like the brushed metal of baghira. The background > > doesn't blend in with the colours, making it easier for them to see > > differences. I feel they are worth the effort, despite how much > > they've shrunk. > > And Kate, since I'm in that "geriatric" profile at my soon to be 84 > years, I certainly respect your efforts to drag the seniors into the > computer litterate age, so a doff of my ever present semi-western hat to > you seems well deserved indeed. My local senior center runs such a > program, but its all on (spit up a big one) winders. Mention linux and > get shushed. > > But I was a nerd before the word was invented, so when computers became > affordable, I was on-board, putting them to work at labor saving jobs > fairly early. The first such project used a Quest Super Elf, with an RCA > 1802 processor. It applied all the work needed to a just composed tv > commercial to make them work with an automatic station break machine. > And while I have long since gone down the road from that tv stations > engineering staff, the last time I checked, 15 years later, it was still > in use. Thats a couple of eons in tv station control room time. > > > But this is all off topice so I'll end it here. > > BS. Its all in the "getting to know the neighbors" AFAIAC. > > > Back to business lads and lasses. > > > > Cheers William of The Poets > > Thats a + too. > > > Kate I'm a relative late-comer to the Nerdom, and while I doubt that I will ever get elected King of the Nerds, I hope to make myself useful as their Merlin. Bill