Dear world: I don't want my software to have gear symbols. First off, it's software; there aren't any gears. It's not the analytical engine made of brass, and you guys aren't engineers. You're computer programmers, or systems analysts, or interface designers. That's right, some of you are designers, like fashion designers and interior designers.
Second, that gear, why do you put it where you do? You have a physical gear covered with adhesive that you throw at the screen while blindfolded after spinning around a few times and wherever it sticks is where the gear goes in your app, isn't that right?
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
Actually, we know why the gears and stuff started appearing in odd places - you're stealing interface designs and software from one culture and using them in a different culture, figuring you're less likely to have your misuse noticed that way, right? Some UI designer in the right to left world is probably putting major stuff on the left, copying from normal convention in my part of the world, driving my far off counterpart mad, just like me.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best