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I never noticed this. When I type "vis", I always get VS 2013, 2012, etc ... shortcuts. In win 8 you have to explicitly search for files vs control panel items

by hudo 12y ago

I never noticed this. When I type "vis", I always get VS 2013, 2012, etc ... shortcuts. In win 8 you have to explicitly search for files vs control panel items, and in 8.1 they removed that annoying feature, so you can just use win key + s for everything. It just works.

dhimes 12y ago
Yeah, this is a pain in Linux too. The menu item "Document Viewer" was actually "evince." Say what? You could hunt the menu to see the command to be able to call it. Until Ubuntu did away with the menu.
- allegory 12y ago
  This. I'm liking MacOS X. It's had "preview" in it since day one and it just works. It also displays PDF ToC nicely as well and allows annotations. Ubuntu always confuses the crap out of me from a desktop perspective. Fortunately I only have two machines deployed with it on now and they are headless servers.
vanderZwan 12y ago
It doesn't "just work". Yes, it's fairly good in most cases, but it only goes 90% of the way and for an interaction designer like me that last 10% is infuriating and trivial, basic interaction design that a big company like Microsoft should not have screwed up. I already explained half of the issues before, but I'll repeat it here: the search only cares about the shortcut name. If the shortcut name does not match the program name you're screwed. For many programs, the shortcut name does not match the program name, instead limiting that to the start menu folder name. If they added folder names into the search results, where you would jump to the folder/label in the start menu if clicked, that would greatly increase usefulness of searching. Similarly you are not given enough context what the search results belong to. Typing "update" gives me FOUR "Check for Update" icons, with only the icons themselves to give me any semblance of context. If not for familiarity with those I would not know what belongs to what. Java is recognisable because of the icon, another I recognise as the Metro version of windows update, but then there's two windows update icons. One of which turns out to be for legacy XBOX360 drivers instead of the general windows update. But I have to click that first to discover that. The fixes for this issue are trivial: - show (clickable, see above) labels between icons like you would in the regular start menu, indicating where they were found - show the full path when hovering over the icon

by hudo 12y ago

dhimes 12y ago

Yeah, this is a pain in Linux too. The menu item "Document Viewer" was actually "evince." Say what? You could hunt the menu to see the command to be able to call it. Until Ubuntu did away with the menu.

allegory 12y ago
This. I'm liking MacOS X. It's had "preview" in it since day one and it just works. It also displays PDF ToC nicely as well and allows annotations. Ubuntu always confuses the crap out of me from a desktop perspective. Fortunately I only have two machines deployed with it on now and they are headless servers.

vanderZwan 12y ago

It doesn't "just work". Yes, it's fairly good in most cases, but it only goes 90% of the way and for an interaction designer like me that last 10% is infuriating and trivial, basic interaction design that a big company like Microsoft should not have screwed up. I already explained half of the issues before, but I'll repeat it here: the search only cares about the shortcut name. If the shortcut name does not match the program name you're screwed. For many programs, the shortcut name does not match the program name, instead limiting that to the start menu folder name. If they added folder names into the search results, where you would jump to the folder/label in the start menu if clicked, that would greatly increase usefulness of searching. Similarly you are not given enough context what the search results belong to. Typing "update" gives me FOUR "Check for Update" icons, with only the icons themselves to give me any semblance of context. If not for familiarity with those I would not know what belongs to what. Java is recognisable because of the icon, another I recognise as the Metro version of windows update, but then there's two windows update icons. One of which turns out to be for legacy XBOX360 drivers instead of the general windows update. But I have to click that first to discover that. The fixes for this issue are trivial: - show (clickable, see above) labels between icons like you would in the regular start menu, indicating where they were found - show the full path when hovering over the icon