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Settings is the gear above the "power" icon? The apps at the top of my start menu are ones that were most recently installed. TBH 95% of the time I just type
by wizofaus 4y ago
Settings is the gear above the "power" icon? The apps at the top of my start menu are ones that were most recently installed. TBH 95% of the time I just type in the name anyway.
- shakna 4y agoIcons are ambiguous. Everybody violates expectations about what an image does. The older UIs had text. More than that, settings was a folder just like every other folder, so you knew what would happen if you clicked on particular section. Things were fairly unified, even though the standards didn't integrate everything. You knew what would open a new dropdown, and what would open a new window, at a glance. There was no need of any implicit knowledge.
- wizofaus 4y agoI've definitely used UIs that have these issues, but I can't say the Windows start menu is one of them generally. The idea that "settings" would be a folder seems quite unintuitive/jarring to me now.