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I've been using it for the last 5 months or so. Honestly, it's 15 labels at the top, all of which I know the positioning of. They could be cryptic/obscure symbo
by jjcm 14y ago
I've been using it for the last 5 months or so. Honestly, it's 15 labels at the top, all of which I know the positioning of. They could be cryptic/obscure symbols from The 5th Element, and I'd still know what each one does based on their position. Yea, it takes a couple more seconds to parse the menus the first time you look at it, but after a while you memorize what they are anyway. If menu readability is the worst thing people can find about VS2012, then I'd say they did an OK job with it.
- MichaelGG 14y agoI don't think most people are honestly saying "oh dear, how will I ever find the Debug menu". They're objecting to an obviously annoying move with no clear rationale. The VS beta had an entirely different set of text in all caps. The fact that they had to hunt around capitalizing stuff in order to "Metro-ize" it just shows its mainly a political move. (Office 2013 has also gone the route of randomly capitalizing things; there is apparently no motivating rationale for which parts of the UI on a desktop app deserve caps.) Users are rightly annoyed that Microsoft's making these silly changes, and because they're so visible, of course there will be a lot of vocal feedback. A more cynical person might even think this was by design: Make one really prominent annoying feature, and drown out concerns on anything else.