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The Windows UI team did a lot of great work around this time. I remember reading a post on the Windows Shell blog where they explained an ingenious they made to

The Windows UI team did a lot of great work around this time. I remember reading a post on the Windows Shell blog where they explained an ingenious they made to explorer. They added some margin on the left hand side of the detailed listview. Try it out and select a file, there is a blank space of about 15 pixels to the left of the row. This is so that you always have space to start a rubberband selection, even if the window is full with files. (You may also start it over the greyed out columns, but if you start on the name column, you start dragging the file instead.) I wonder if anybody archived the blog post somewhere? I cannot find it in archive.org unfortunately. I've never seen this feature implemented anywhere else (except in an unpublished Gtk app of mine where it was a pain to implement :-)).

jeroenhd 5y ago
This is a feature I often miss on many Linux file explorers. In Windows, there's always a way to right click on an empty area to get the context menu that allows you to create a new file. On my Linux file managers, you have to scroll to the bottom or zoom out if the amount of files lines up exactly with what could theoretically fit. It's the little bits of attention to detail that really made me appreciate the Windows 7 UI.
captainmuon 5y ago
For future reference, here is the blog (called Shell: revealed): https://web.archive.org/web/20071015032920/http://shellrevealed.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20071015032920/http://shellrevea... There is a post about the inconsistent wizard titlebars in Vista and 7, for example. (There is a "back" button in the top left, but there is space above it. The reason is they didn't want to or couldn't do ownerdraw stuff on the titlebar, and then later stuck with it. The original plan was to have it look like in the Windows Vista/7 installer, where the back button is vertically centered in the titlebar). https://web.archive.org/web/20070206051159/http://shellrevealed.com:80/blogs/shellblog/archive/2006/09/25/Why-is-the-Aero-Wizard-title-bar-so-big_3F00_.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20070206051159/http://shellrevea...

jeroenhd 5y ago

This is a feature I often miss on many Linux file explorers. In Windows, there's always a way to right click on an empty area to get the context menu that allows you to create a new file. On my Linux file managers, you have to scroll to the bottom or zoom out if the amount of files lines up exactly with what could theoretically fit. It's the little bits of attention to detail that really made me appreciate the Windows 7 UI.

captainmuon 5y ago

For future reference, here is the blog (called Shell: revealed): https://web.archive.org/web/20071015032920/http://shellrevealed.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20071015032920/http://shellrevea... There is a post about the inconsistent wizard titlebars in Vista and 7, for example. (There is a "back" button in the top left, but there is space above it. The reason is they didn't want to or couldn't do ownerdraw stuff on the titlebar, and then later stuck with it. The original plan was to have it look like in the Windows Vista/7 installer, where the back button is vertically centered in the titlebar). https://web.archive.org/web/20070206051159/http://shellrevealed.com:80/blogs/shellblog/archive/2006/09/25/Why-is-the-Aero-Wizard-title-bar-so-big_3F00_.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20070206051159/http://shellrevea...