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>I think Metro could be made to work if you made sure it was operable with a mouse - that is, no auto-hiding, no gestures. Give me a single, consistent always-v
by commandar 13y ago
>I think Metro could be made to work if you made sure it was operable with a mouse - that is, no auto-hiding, no gestures. Give me a single, consistent always-visible taskbar instead of schizophrenia and that "charms" crap, and on-screen always-visible buttons to launch an app-search-bar or to hit up the
I can live with this on the desktop, but what's particularly insane is they went with this same interface for Server 2012.
Fortunately, I got out of dealing with Windows Server before then, but I hear no end of complaining from friends that still do about how infuriating trying to invoke corner-based gestures through an RDC window is.
- Pxtl 13y agoI don't consider corner-based gestures to satisfy my requirement of "operable with a mouse". That's my point. Move away from gestures and auto-hiding crap and metro would be workable for the desktop. It's perfectly reasonable to auto-hide stuff on a 7" screen and have it always-visible on a 23" screen, or at least give it a button instead of a gesture. Give me that kind of thing and Metro is workable instead of "omg revert this crap".
- mrweasel 13y agoI just generally despise gesture based interaction, but Metro makes some sense on Windows Server. Strip away the gestures and leave just the tiles could be one way to go on the server. Normally you just login to do a quick modification and having the server tools right on the tile desktop makes it pretty easy to find.