Diagnosing IX in your operating system
>From /.:
"My three pet gripes about GUI software are 1) focus stealers -- you
are typing away in one app and some other app pops up and then you are
typing into some other window that has grabbed focus, 2) Files Save
that makes you start over from the beginning with each program launch
or even each Files Save instead of remembering where you last saved a
file, and 3) programs that lock up the GUI at the least provocation
(yeah you, Adobe -- I dread Web surfing into PDF files, even from a
broadband connection)."
(http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=359507&cid=21344881)
This guy nailed the big two (number 3 is a code stability issue), but
I'd like to add that there are others, on Windows, Macintosh, and
various DEs for Linux/BSD. What are your worst peeves, and what's a
better way these operating systems could work?
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On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Chris Borokowski wrote:
> I'd like to add that there are others, on Windows, Macintosh, and
> various DEs for Linux/BSD. What are your worst peeves, and what's a
> better way these operating systems could work?
The #1 pain I have on the Mac where Windows is clearly better is in
resizing windows. Windows allows me to drag any corner and any side;
Mac limits me to a single corner, and if that one is off screen, I
have to drag the window by the title and then move the mouse to just
about absolute farthest point in order to resize it. Nasty breakage
of Fitt's Law (or is it of some other "law").
The #1 pain I have on Windows where Mac is clearly better is in
creating folders. Windows makes me right-click, move the mouse to the
new cascade, wait a few seconds while the OS figures out what goes on
the menu, and then move the mouse again; Mac lets me use three
simultaneous keystrokes, doing the task in any location in a fraction
of the time.
These are things I run into every single day, several times a day, and
they transcend any gripes about the Dock's 3D nature or the Start
Menu's inability to keep things in alpha order so you can find them.
(But maybe not much more than other issues with the Start Menu. How
about that non-fading bubble help that shows up over the Log Out
button to tell me that new software has been installed? If I click on
it, will it go away, or will I click through to whatever fatal action
button is hidden beneath? Do I dare try to dismiss it? Again, since
I install new versions of our software every single days, sometimes
several times an hour, I hit this constantly and it really annoys.)
Sigh.
-- Jim Drew
cfmdesigns at earthlink.net
http://www.soundskinky.com/blog/
Jim Drew wrote:
How about that non-fading bubble help that shows up over the Log Out
button to tell me that new software has been installed?
As a quick aside, this can be disabled. Right-click on the Start
Button, on the Start Menu tab, click Customize, then on the Advanced
tab, uncheck "Highlight newly installed programs." It's something
I've always disabled almost immediately on a new install.
--chris
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