Windows 7 - nice fish!
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Yeah but the Quick Launch toolbar isn't ON by default. You have to turn it on. So for those users who didn't know about Quick Launch Toolbar, its something new. By the way there is shortcut also to show the desktop (Windows Key + D), which I use most. :-)
crudeCodeYogi wrote:
Yeah but the Quick Launch toolbar isn't ON by default. You have to turn it on.
With all of the installs that I've done, it's always on by default.
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The default underwater theme for windows 7 ultimate is certainly very beautiful. And I am very happy to see the show desktop button at the far right of the taskbar. I remember posting a while back here that there should be one in windows and lot's of people telling me why I was an idiot for saying that and now it's there. :) I just downloaded it from msdn to test my apps on it and I can say that it runs fine under vmware workstation 6.5 which id'd it as Vista for the purposes of a quick installation off the install CD (damn but that's a nice feature in VMWare). Also no license key is required and you will get an error if you try to view them on the msdn download site. It runs much faster and easier under VMWare workstation than Vista Ultimate does on a fresh install so clearly it appears to need less resources which is very handy for anyone doing testing with it on a virtual machine. Now off to do some testing I guess.
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John C wrote:
it should always have been on the task bar
John C wrote:
where it's *never* obscured
Does that imply you think the autohiding taskbar functionality should be removed?
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
Does that imply you think the autohiding taskbar functionality should be removed?
Yes, absolutely it's a pointless feature that just creates potential confusion for users. There are very few software applications out there that could not be improved tremendously by removing anywhere from a handful to thousands of "features" entirely. (Most things described as a "feature" that have a button or some other command to initiate them are actually poor design or lack of decisions on the part of the designers of the application.)
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Graham Bradshaw wrote:
Does that imply you think the autohiding taskbar functionality should be removed?
Yes, absolutely it's a pointless feature that just creates potential confusion for users. There are very few software applications out there that could not be improved tremendously by removing anywhere from a handful to thousands of "features" entirely. (Most things described as a "feature" that have a button or some other command to initiate them are actually poor design or lack of decisions on the part of the designers of the application.)
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John C wrote:
Yes, absolutely it's a pointless feature that just creates potential confusion for users.
Translation: "I don't like it so noone else should be able to use it". About 15% of my coworkers (WAG) have it turned on. Mostly they're people running on lower res screens who can benefit most from a few thousand extra pixels of screen space.
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John C wrote:
Yes, absolutely it's a pointless feature that just creates potential confusion for users.
Translation: "I don't like it so noone else should be able to use it". About 15% of my coworkers (WAG) have it turned on. Mostly they're people running on lower res screens who can benefit most from a few thousand extra pixels of screen space.
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Translation: I've spent years studying good UI design and implementing it and learning from direct feedback from my customers in an environment where I lose the roof over my head if I don't do it well. :)
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Translation: I've spent years studying good UI design and implementing it and learning from direct feedback from my customers in an environment where I lose the roof over my head if I don't do it well. :)
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John C wrote:
I've spent years studying good UI design and implementing it
So can we see some of this design of yours? Product web site, perhaps? (I realise bespoke software can't necessarily be shown). Don't forget, there's no such thing as "good UI design" as an absolute, only good UI design for a situation and user. The UI for a professional CAD package is vastly different from that of financial trading software, and both are vastly different from an e-mail client intended for non-technical users. You only have (I guess) one particular type of user. Windows has to cater for everyone from uber-greek to grandma.
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John C wrote:
I just downloaded it from msdn
Is it available for downloading? Last time I check it wasn't and I read in the news that it will be available from Friday.
I think that was "publically available". For those with an MSDN Subscription you can get it now.
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crudeCodeYogi wrote:
Yeah but the Quick Launch toolbar isn't ON by default. You have to turn it on.
With all of the installs that I've done, it's always on by default.
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Well to be specific I was talking about Windows XP Professional Edition and I have seen that the Quick Launch toolbar wasn't on by default.