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Five years is nothing for MS. You should see how long the bug in File Explorer has been there, where after navigating to a folder and pressing the down arrow, t
by stronglikedan 4y ago
Five years is nothing for MS. You should see how long the bug in File Explorer has been there, where after navigating to a folder and pressing the down arrow, the second item is selected instead of the first. And it's one of those things that, even though I'm aware of it, it still always catches me causing extra keystrokes. It's like they're trying to force me to use the mouse for some reason.
- zamadatix 4y agoThat one I can almost agree with the reasoning for. The first item is selected by default but also by default you have to intentionally trigger a keyboard navigation for it to go into that mode since most don't intend to do that when hitting enter on a freshly loaded directory. As evidence of this behavior instead of hitting a directional key to change the selection whacking space should activate the highlight on the first item and then another navigation action is needed to actually do anything. I think it'd be more convenient (for me as a keyboard centric user at least) if it were done differently but I don't think it's actually a bug as much as an intentional decision at the cost of keyboard user. This is unlike the Defender issue where it's of no purpose to be significantly slower than it needed to be.
- deafpolygon 4y agoWanted to chime in with this. Agreed, it's not a bug. Just a UX decision that was made to prevent people from hitting Enter over and over and constantly launching/navigating stuff. I often accidentally rename files in macOS Finder (hitting Enter activates rename).
- forgotmypw17 4y agoI think you can press Space to select the first item.
- recursive 4y agoThat doesn't particularly sound like a bug. There may be varying opinions about whether it's good or not, but it kind of almost makes sense to me.