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Database copy progress dialog with an animation of an arrow getting mangled by some cogs.
Is it just me, or does this dialog box, which appears when using a particular part of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, present a very bad metaphor? One that says, "this arrow represents your data, and here it is being minced by some cogs". Or maybe it's just me that thinks that, and winces a little every time another animated grey arrow goes through the mangle.
Just a thought.
Hehe. Assuming the cogs symbolise a process or algorithm being applied to your data, surely a straight copy shouldn't really call for a set of cogs? How about two pieces of paper, with the second one being written by a pen copying the first one?
Just an arrow going from one server to another would do: there's no processing involved, so what are the cogs for?
Pointless animations == bad UI design, someone please tell Microsoft that.