[mcswell]

I'll take your special gripe and raise you one. My gripe is not being able to get rid of the icons in favor of the text labels. There's a reason alphabetic (and similar) writing systems won out over hieroglyphics, and why we don't use both today.

And this is not just Mac OS, it's Microsoft and an increasing amount of Windows-compatible software. I wouldn't mind the Ribbon half as much if I could just turn off the hieroglyphs, I mean the icons, and keep the text labels.