Klickibunti

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Klickibunti is a derogatory German term for (allegedly) exaggerated graphic "gimmicks" in software or especially in web design , through which the actual content to be displayed (especially on websites ) or the (actually as easy as possible) usability of computers is pushed into the background . The term “usability” also means the most intuitive possible navigation within and between websites.

Usage and previous meaning

The designation can be attributed to the internet jargon and slang of computer and web design experts, whereby “experts” can also be ( autodidactically ) well-informed computer users. You can also find the spellings Klicki-Bunti , Klicki-bunti and klickibunti (the latter could be meant as an adjective in contrast to the noun "Klicki ..."). "Klicki" refers to the operation of the computer mouse , "Bunti" actually to any use of colors; The term originally came up when the Windows graphical operating system (like, to a lesser extent, the Apple Macintosh of the 1990s) began to enable myriads of computer laypeople to use computers (for work) after computers had previously been controlled primarily via the console - roughly around 1990. It can thus be interpreted as a rejection of a new technology through which a small section of the population threatened to lose its primacy over the “ mass ” or which feared the “mass abuse” of the new technology.

The two diminutive endings "i" can express the pejorative character of the word, cf. Diminutive # usage . It can be an imitation of Baby Talk , through which "Klickibunti" users are to be put on a par with young children.

The word formation is therefore clearly German and only understandable if you know what German “click” and “colored” mean. The halfway equivalent English name, for example, is formed completely differently: "angry fruit salad". She compares the visual appearance with that of a brightly colored fruit salad .

However, the meaning of the word has shifted so much from the late 1990s that it can no longer be clearly derived from the word formation. This is the subject of the next section.

More current meaning

KDE 4.3 with transparent windows

Meanwhile, even computer experts and die-hard console enthusiasts use graphical web browsers (although you almost always get to see one or the other color ) and other graphical applications that may a. run on the basis of Unixoid operating systems such as Linux ; popular desktop environments here are KDE Plasma and Gnome . "Klickibunti" is no longer used to devalue all graphic user interfaces, but rather serves to differentiate between "sensible" ("pragmatic") and "nonsensical" or "over-the-top" graphic interface design . At times Windows could still be "Klickibunti" in contrast to Linux, but meanwhile certain Linux desktop environments are reviled as "Klickibunti" in contrast to others. The use of the expression becomes more subjective . Eye candy , animation and transparency effects can be negatively conspicuous , the latter, for example, if the legibility of a text is made more difficult by "translucent" other texts or graphics.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Klickibunti  - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

supporting documents

It is more a question of evidence in the sense of lexicography , i.e. only examples of use that do not necessarily reveal exactly what the authors mean by "Klickibunti". Rather, they even refer to a common usage somewhere with just a few words and sometimes distance themselves from it.

  1. ↑ a b c Günther H. Botek: The Irony Machine: . Eight months of virtual life in the network literature mailing list. BoD - Books on Demand , February 4, 2015, mail from October 29, 1999, subject: Webwriting ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on November 1, 2017]): “I like the criticism of 'design' on the web too not clear when it is claimed that design WITHOUT content is superficial (meaning derogatory) - just stupid 'Klickibunti'. "
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph Troche: Ubuntu 16.04: Practical knowledge for beginners and those switching . 1st edition. Mitp Verlag , Frechen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95845-471-2 . - Introductory section “The Ubuntuversionen” in the Google book search ( Linux KDE »Klickibunti«) - Section 14.4 in the Google book search (Linux LXDE not »Klicki-Bunti«) - accessed on November 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c SVG - Bring graphics to life with animations. Selfhtml , April 15, 2017, accessed on November 4, 2017 : "With movement you can not only create klickibunti websites, but also specifically clarify user actions or show and hide content and thus show relationships."
  4. ↑ a b Florian Müller: Professional rich client solutions with Flex and Java: . Web applications with Flex frontend, Java backend and BlazeDS. 1st edition. Addison-Wesley , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8273-2795-6 , pp. 394 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 8, 2017]): "[...] accordingly, the" what "of a Flash application always revolves around moving or animated content. Flex, on the other hand, was developed to create "real" applications; nasty tongues would explain the difference between the "what" as follows: Flash is Klicki-bunti, Flex is application development. "
  5. ^ Armin Hanisch: Windows 2003 Shell Scripting . Automate processes without programming knowledge. Addison-Wesley , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8273-2178-6 , pp. 13 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 31, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b c Marcus Klinge: Desktop, Folders and Files. Structures and metaphors of self-organized work on the computer . GRIN Verlag , Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 978-3-640-25713-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed November 8, 2017]): “It seems that some of this criticism is also a perceived humiliation of the computer specialists Take into account. [...] An interface is mocked as "a lot of klickibunti" and "the shell" (" command line input" ) is praised as "the best way to use the computer" . "
  7. ↑ See the entries Klickibunti and angry fruit salad in the English Wiktionary .
  8. ↑ See entry on candidate in the Wiktionary → "Design Terrorism".
  9. ↑ Jo LL Roger: p¡r @ t € Z: downloading the internet wholesale . epubli , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-6356-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on November 4, 2017]): Will you come with the development environment under Linux ? ', rightly asks them. ,Yes. It takes a bit of getting used to, but still better than the Klickibunti under Windows, 'assures BlitzKey.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Daiber: "Ut pictura poesis" . Ars Poetica and Hyperfiction. In: Ernest WB Hess-Lüttich (Hrsg.): Authors, automata, audiovisions: New approaches to media aesthetics and tele-semiotics . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2001, ISBN 3-531-13674-7 , pp. 113 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on November 4, 2017]): "The Internet theorist and publisher of digital literature Beat Suter about looks and for the future, approaching Klickibunti 'spectacle in which the forced utmost animation to Text threatens to overwhelm and reading in the real sense no longer takes place. "