|
Kalman posted:There isn’t. They’ve said that it’ll probably come so I’d expect it in 2026 or so. I get the feeling the Windows team is such a shambling mess they literally can't write software from scratch anymore. Every time they do a clean sheet redo the result is terrible, and improvements come extremely slowly. It reminds me of that comment from an MS employee regarding that font install dialog from Windows 3.1 that stuck around until like Win7. He said that basically any change takes about a hundred man-hours of red tape to get it through the approval process. So devs tie themselves in knots to avoid fixing things that aren't their personal priority one, since they'd have to hold its hand through the entire nightmare approval process. If you tie yourself to something that won't help you advance, it becomes a digital albatross.
|
#
?
Jan 2, 2023 20:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 12:54 |
|
|
Imagine applying for a PM role though and your experience with MS is that you fought to get the Add Font window redone and managed to win against all the bureaucracy
|
|
#
?
Jan 2, 2023 21:16
|
|
|
State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? it goes all the way back to 3.1.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2023 04:46
|
|
|
SwissArmyDruid posted:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? Please don't tell Microsoft. They might change some more of the older stuff which is almost universally superior to their modern trash. The Disk Format tool will only have an option for drive letter with no way to select anything except NTFS and the UI will be big enough to navigate with my fist.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2023 05:28
|
|
|
Blue Footed Booby posted:I get the feeling the Windows team is such a shambling mess they literally can't write software from scratch anymore. Every time they do a clean sheet redo the result is terrible, and improvements come extremely slowly. I'm using the latest version of Office and it's still using that exact same lovely Insert Symbol dialog from Word 95 that randomly breaks and decides it's not going to accept keyboard or mouse input for actually, you know, selecting the symbols. All you can do is jump up or down a full page at a time using the scrollbar and hope the cursor lands on the symbol you want. At least since Word 2000 or so you can type in a hexcode in the bottom right and maybe guesstimate your way to the value of the symbol. But considering the symbols aren't at contiguous hexcodes, you have to play a game of 20 questions just to move halfway along a row.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2023 06:40
|
|
|
I'm sorry but this owns hard. I'm changing a bunch of my drive icons
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2023 09:56
|
|
|
Vic posted:I'm sorry but this owns hard. I'm changing a bunch of my drive icons C:/windows/media/town.mid Sri.Theo posted:Can anyone recommend a good image duplicate finder? There seem to be quite a few out there. You probably want the 'recommend me a tiny app thread.' But you probably want the tiny app "Anti-Twin". Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jan 3, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2023 17:04
|
|
|
Explorer tabs are a game changer. I might finally upgrade for that reason alone.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2023 18:43
|
|
|
Too bad explorer tabs are half-baked. They’ve promised it for years and we finally get it but it’s not all there yet. Hopefully it improves.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2023 20:16
|
|
|
Haven't even used those tabs yet. Mostly it seems more convenient to have multiple windows open in case I want to move something around or compare stuff
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2023 20:26
|
|
|
Wake me for their half-assed attempt at 2-pane explorer windows.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2023 20:36
|
|
|
The fact that you can't move tabs from window to window makes the whole thing just useless.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2023 23:36
|
|
|
yeah i just discovered that. weird thing to gently caress up since it's a staple web browser feature.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2023 23:52
|
|
|
doctorfrog posted:Wake me for their half-assed attempt at 2-pane explorer windows. win+left win+right viola!
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 01:25
|
|
|
I just don’t really understand why you’d go through the trouble of rewriting the UI stuff from scratch only for it to remain a painstaking process to add basic features to
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 01:29
|
|
|
Sri.Theo posted:Can anyone recommend a good image duplicate finder? There seem to be quite a few out there. Used VisiPics a few weeks ago. Worked well, if dated looking.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 01:45
|
|
|
Vic posted:I'm sorry but this owns hard. I'm changing a bunch of my drive icons What's the heart behind a set of venetian blinds?
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 05:13
|
|
|
~Coxy posted:What's the heart behind a set of venetian blinds? When you're trying to hide your intense game of MS Hearts from your boss
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 05:16
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Explorer tabs are a game changer. I might finally upgrade for that reason alone. If that's ever been something you wanted, you've always been able to get it with third party software like directory opus (although admittedly it costs a lot)
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 10:09
|
|
|
~Coxy posted:What's the heart behind a set of venetian blinds? Wow, that's the icon for Extra! which was a terminal emulation program. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 10:18
|
|
|
Tiny Timbs posted:I just don’t really understand why you’d go through the trouble of rewriting the UI stuff from scratch only for it to remain a painstaking process to add basic features to I doubt technical difficulty is the main issue. ~Coxy posted:What's the heart behind a set of venetian blinds? I think it's supposed to be an interlaced image loading in?? Not sure what that has to do with terminals, assuming Dick Trauma is right Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jan 7, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 15:34
|
|
|
Tiny Timbs posted:I just don’t really understand why you’d go through the trouble of rewriting the UI stuff from scratch only for it to remain a painstaking process to add basic features to So is a search window that doesn't obstruct the content and keyboard shortcuts that work, but one thing at a time.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2023 17:35
|
|
|
Blue Footed Booby posted:I doubt technical difficulty is the main issue. I think there's a chance it could be. I bet there's a really good chance something like explorer is still 99% some 30 year old C code. I feel like anyone really *great* at software development wants to be as far away from writing GUI's as possible. Would love to read an article or blog about this sorta thing if anyone has one. Dave's garage on youtube is pretty fun.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 19:42
|
|
|
bobua posted:I think there's a chance it could be. Raymond Chen's blog used to be great for all sorts of weird Windows stuff as well as turbonerd coding details. I haven't checked recently but he's still posting: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221108-36/?p=107367 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221109-00/?p=107373 I still remember this one by Joel about replicating a Lotus bug in Excel https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 19:55
|
|
|
bobua posted:I bet there's a really good chance something like explorer is still 99% some 30 year old C code. I feel like anyone really *great* at software development wants to be as far away from writing GUI's as possible. The way the Shell is constructed, I think it's pretty likely it has been piecemeal replaced and none of the remaining code will date back to Windows 95. But yes I will second reading Raymond Chen's blog, you can find lots of articles talking about the construction of Explorer and the Shell for Windows 95 and the concessions and design choices made back then.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 20:07
|
|
|
You can't make the Start menu any bigger, right? Would be nice to fit more icons on screen.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 20:31
|
|
|
Are some system links hardcoded to open edge, whatever your default browser is? Like "My Feed" in widgets? (And please tell me there's a quick way to disable all the news items, without disabling widgets altogether) Rinkles fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jan 10, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 20:49
|
|
|
Cool feature that I think wasn't in 10, you can adjust volume by scrolling when hovering over the system tray volume icon.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 20:58
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:You can't make the Start menu any bigger, right? Would be nice to fit more icons on screen. I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Rinkles posted:Are some system links hardcoded to open edge, whatever your default browser is? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the case. For a while they were dancing on the edge of another antitrust lawsuit by practically locking people into Edge, and they still push it really hard. Rinkles posted:Cool feature that I think wasn't in 10, you can adjust volume by scrolling when hovering over the system tray volume icon. Not sure about this one and not currently on a Windows machine, although I know clicking the volume icon in 10 lets you scroll to adjust the volume
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 21:05
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Cool feature that I think wasn't in 10, you can adjust volume by scrolling when hovering over the system tray volume icon. One of my biggest pet peeves is not allowing arrow keys or whatever on a slider, mouse cursor only, also gives you numbers like 80.25 I don't enjoy call of duty anymore but I've tried the new free one with a few friends and their sliders appear mouse only, I guess I could change them with the controller too though.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 21:10
|
|
|
Wish I'd taken a screen shot of my start menu before upgrading, because I don't recall everything.CaptainSarcastic posted:I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Best I've found is reducing the number of recommendations 
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 21:16
|
|
|
This is pretty petty, but Windows animations seemed to be locked to 60fps. It doesn't really bother me besides the taskbar hide. You can disable animations, but I mostly like them. e:actually the minimize animation from fullscreen is also quite choppy. Rinkles fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jan 10, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2023 21:50
|
|
|
I have discovered my new least favorite Windows "feature". The "Office Key" they're so proudly touting is just the hyperkey (control+shift+alt+win) which means you can't use it for your own purposes
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 02:16
|
|
|
Buff Hardback posted:I have discovered my new least favorite Windows "feature". The "Office Key" they're so proudly touting is just the hyperkey (control+shift+alt+win) which means you can't use it for your own purposes What's this Office Key? I've never heard of it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 02:59
|
|
|
hooah posted:What's this Office Key? I've never heard of it. Press control+alt+shift+win and be prompted to install the office 365 app it’s super cool and neat
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 03:06
|
|
|
Buff Hardback posted:I have discovered my new least favorite Windows "feature". The "Office Key" they're so proudly touting is just the hyperkey (control+shift+alt+win) which means you can't use it for your own purposes https://gist.github.com/darylwright/f3272846650b28906550a0454d7f4305 Or REG ADD HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command /t REG_SZ /d rundll32
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 03:29
|
|
|
Kalman posted:https://gist.github.com/darylwright/f3272846650b28906550a0454d7f4305 Yeah I'll probably have to do that (or just use the meh key). It's annoying that while you can free up the hyper key, you have to get Explorer to unbind all the actual combos.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 03:54
|
|
|
Is there no way to delete music from the Media Player once it's been added? I have a duplicate album and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 05:38
|
|
|
I really don't mind the new 11 asthetics. Pretty cool. I do mind all these odd background crap they are doing in the OS. Oh well its Pro/GPE or bust for me.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 07:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 12:54 |
|
|
Buff Hardback posted:Press control+alt+shift+win and be prompted to install the office 365 app it’s super cool and neat Ahh, ok, that does ring a bell. Luckily for me I never have a need to push that many keys at once.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2023 12:40
|
|