Windows 8: Pushing hated UI elements

[Lost User]

Peter Mulholland wrote:

Really? I'm using 7 at home and haven't noticed that.

The default color scheme makes it difficult to know if a folder in the treeview is selected or a folder/file in the listview is selected. So if I delete a file thinking that the listview has the focus, I end up deleting its parent folder. (BTW, that's when I kicked off my bad habit of shift deleting).

[Lost User]

I prefer Neural Jack-ins. I mean why dig through menus/ribbons when I can think it!

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

It should be an option

It is.

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[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

Dalek Dave wrote:

non-drying paint

Then it's not paint.

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[Dario Solera]

I too have a Mac (a MacBook Air), but I mostly dislike OSX. I purchased it for the remarkable hardware and immediately installed Windows 7 via Bootcamp.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

How so? I don't think you mean I can configure Office 2007+ to use ye olde menues. (And I don't mean some third-party replacement.)

[thrakazog]

David Kentley wrote:

Does anyone like the ribbon interface?

The only good thing about it will be if there is an option to hide it.

[Peter Mulholland]

I've just wasted too much time looking at rules of the internet. Incidentally when I google rules of the internet[^] The 5th result is NSFW judging by the title and does not appear to have anything to do with rules of the internet (unless you apply 34 I suppose)

Pete

[S Houghtelin]

From M$ Excel help regarding the Ribbon, Help Subject: What happened to the File menu? The answer: “The ribbon replaces the menu” then goes on to extol the virtues of the ribbon ending at the bottom where it simply states "Use the Ribbon" Which is a link to how to play ribbon "whack-a-mole".

It was broke, so I fixed it.

[Rage]

Reckon that you don't like anything involving the mouse, you keys pusher.

[Rage]

The ribbon is not the primary problem in this screenshot. Maybe Microsoft could for once try to understand that an explorer needs to have two panes, one source and one target. I'll stick to Total Commander until this is fixed.

[GenJerDan]

Toolbars (and their ilk) get ridiculous at times. Ok, folks, put your thinking caps on. We need icons for: Save Save As Save Copy As Save All and Save to New Location Make them all obvious as to their function, different, easily recognizable, and you only have 4 thousand pixels to work with... Oh, yeah, and you can't make them look like a floppy disk anymore, since no one under 30 knows what that is. :laugh:

I thought you had to go to Pittsburgh for that. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

[Single Step Debugger]

When I first started to use it I hated it, now two years later I hate it even more.

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[GenJerDan]

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Touch the ribbon, feel the ribbon, caress the ribbon, oh wait - wrong forum!

See the chrome. Feel the chrome. Touch the chrome. Heal the chrome. See the screaming, hot black steaming, iridescent naugahyde, python screaming, steam roller! Oh, wait. Wong song. ;)

I thought you had to go to Pittsburgh for that. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

[Gary Wheeler]

I just sprayed semi-masticated ham-and-swiss-on-croissant all over my $3,500 LCD-flat-panel-and-touchscreen. I will be sending you a bill. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary Wheeler]

You do realize that impersonating JSOP is a really good way to develop lead poisoning, don't you?

Software Zen: delete this;

[PIEBALDconsult]

I didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome when I was using a dumb terminus or a terminus emulator. It started when I started using Visual Studio and Office.

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

Extremely-Slow-Dying Paint. Note that it has a maximum lifetime of 1 year, which means it's dry by then.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

I mean you can turn off, or even minimize, the ribbon. You can also customize a little menu with the stuff you use often.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun