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A work computer came with WinZip. It had the worst UI I've ever dealt with. I was unable to just bypass it and use the standard windows compresses UI. WinZip had massive non-hideable toolbars at the left, right, and top of the window, which could not be made full screen. There were buttons an inch square advertising ZIP TO CLOUD CLOUD BACKUP ZIP MY FILES TO THE CLOUD. My favorite part though was that the actual frame that showed the archive contents made prolific use of whitespace so there was basically a blank line between every file each of which showed its info in a multiline chunk. This use of whitespace made it so I could only see about 4 files at a time. Expanding the window just added whitespace. The absolute cherry on top was that the frame with the archive contents in it didn't show a scrollbar. There was no indication if there was actually 4 files or if it was showing the first 4 out of 10k. To scroll down, you had to put your mouse cursor over where the scrollbar would be, at which point a little lozenge would slowly scroll out from the right. You could only navigate up or down by grabbing and dragging the lozenge, there were no arrows and hitting arrows on the keyboard did nothing. Of course the scrollbar would disappear after a few seconds of inactivity even if the cursor was still on the lozenge. I filed a ticket for it to be removed and if possible replaced with 7zip bit if not possible just uninstall WinZip. It had the single worst interface of any piece of software I've ever used, and I include custom command shells with their own undocumented syntax in that. I had never been a fan of 7zip's interface and I'm still not but Jesus Christ at least you can see how many files are in the folder you're looking at and move around with no difficulty.
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Apr 3, 2021 17:01
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People poo poo on a lot of open source software for being hard to use, or only designed for other programmers. I'll say this much, at least programmers are an actual existing demographic with actual needs the software is meeting. That version of WinZip was apparently designed for people who didn't need to see what was in the archive they were looking in and wanted to push a button with a picture of a cloud on it. It was obviously the brainchild of some cracksniffing execs trying to chase modern trends from within their basic file management and compression utility.
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Apr 3, 2021 17:10
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Big Beef City posted:Pffft what could POSSIBLY be more efficient than this? Aaaah there it is. 17 items in the archive, no scrollbar. 4.5 items shown on screen despite having plenty of real estate to work with. No "extract all" button. No way to search inside the archive. Plenty of whitespace though! At least in the one area that's actually devoted to the thing you're doing though.
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Apr 3, 2021 18:01
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The_Franz posted:ok i take it back, that's not at all how it used to look Yeah I figured you hadn't seen it recently. I used it back in the result 2000's and I agree, the interface was perfectly fine. Even if they hadn't updated it all since then it would maybe look a bit dated but it would work. That new interface is from people huffing farts.
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Apr 3, 2021 18:07
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