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I'm willing to throw a bone to Microsoft with regards to the bottom-fixed taskbar: Many programs simply do not account for non-bottom taskbars and run very jank
by Dalewyn 3y ago
I'm willing to throw a bone to Microsoft with regards to the bottom-fixed taskbar: Many programs simply do not account for non-bottom taskbars and run very jankily when executed under such environments.
I assume they judged it was better for end user experience to make dumb assumptions always true rather than try and convince programmers to stop making dumb assumptions.
- neogodless 3y agoThat doesn't make much sense. The applications viewport can be resized, be in a widescreen, have a rotated monitor, hide the taskbar, etc. What difference does all that make having the task bar somewhere else? What's an example?
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoIt's been a minute since I've used Windows but... what? Why would any program care?
- bonton89 3y agoSome programs have fixed minimum window sizes that may fit poorly on a barely large enough monitor and they were designed with bottom task bar in mind. An unlikely case and not a reason to disable left taskbar IMO.
- mkl 3y agoHm, I've never seen a program have trouble with a left-edge taskbar. Being able to move it is really useful for wide screens and remote desktop (avoids confusion), and the benefits seem to far outweigh potential jankiness of badly written programs.