On Sunday 24 January 2010 08:22:29 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
The term widget was invented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena
An icon by anyother name is still just an icon.
The widget is control element and some of widgets have icon as their graphic presentation. The certain large company effort on "user friendly" computer experience made this distinction disappear and now we have to live with ambiguity in a word icon. Icon is an image from Greek εἰκών eikōn "image"), small in size, where small ranges from couple to few inches, but that is better explained in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon That term was used in above way for centuries before computer era, and even nowadays there is large chance that majority of people that use word icon don't mean it as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(computing) -- Regards Rajko, openSUSE Wiki Team: http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team People of openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/About -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org