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Jeez those toolbars are ridiculous. When the content part of your UI is 60% of the window, something has gone very, very wrong.
by aboodman 14y ago
Jeez those toolbars are ridiculous. When the content part of your UI is 60% of the window, something has gone very, very wrong.
- sliverstorm 14y agoMaybe, maybe not. If the past is any indicator, they are targeted at casual users who need the help, and can be turned off.
- aboodman 14y agoThe biggest icons in that UI are 'Move To...' and 'Copy To...'. Casual users do not want to think about raw files, let alone how to move them around the filesystem. That is why all modern operating system don't expose these concepts. You don't fix this kind of problem by making the buttons bigger.
- blvr 14y agoProbably not worth complaining about, though... Once you've minimised the ribbons Explorer won't have any more chrome than it did in Windows 7.
- tar 14y agoThe ribbon in Windows Explorer is minimized by default.
- dredmorbius 14y agoAgreed. Add these on to Web interfaces, which are increasingly (hullo, Google?) trending toward persistent, non-scrollable header/footer elements, and I'll find myself on websites in which perhaps 25% of my screen is available for my present task. And that's using an interface which already minimizes browser and desktop GUI intrusions (Firefox/Vimperator and WindowMaker).
- gurkendoktor 14y agoMost people also use laptops. Being able to only look at the bottom 60% is especially frustrating. I wish I could move Xcode4's "iTunes-style" header to the bottom of the window when coding on 13".