Windows 7 Taskforce

Information icons in CardSpace doesn't look good

Submitted by nyp on February 28, 2010 to Aesthetics, Icons

Problem: When you want to back up your cards in CardSpace, the information icons at there looks a little jaggy.

Solution: Replace them with the native icons.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(3 comments)

Gadget should lock in place; do not automatically 'snap' on restart

Submitted by koli on February 15, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: I like to have my gadgets flush with the sides of the screen. To move them like so, I need disable the 'snap to' feature by pressing Shift while moving the gadget. The problem is on restart; the gadgets will automatically 'snap' (more...)

Solution: solution 1: If the worry is that user will forget how to access the gadget menu to the right of the gadget, or god forbid learn how to right-click, the visual menu could be moved to the left if it would be moved off-screen.

Solution 2: (more...)

Severity: Medium

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

(2 comments)

WMP12 default color suckitude

Submitted by 4BoltMain on March 6, 2010 to Aesthetics

Problem: The media player color can not be changed.

Solution: Allow the player to be customized to suit the users taste.

I have a rather large LCD monitor and I would prefer that my eyes were not blasted with light (as well as the room) when listening to music in low light conditions.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(7 comments)

Suggestion: Add a Pan and Zoom screen saver/slide show

Submitted by kiwiant on February 23, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance

Problem: The photo screen saver built into Windows 7 is very basic and lacks creativity. Add a few effects. It seems strange that the Windows Media Centre screen saver is a nice one but not accesible through the Screen Saver control panel applet.

Solution: Add effects to the slideshow and screen saver options including Pan & Zoom and the one that looks like polaroid photos are being laid on top of each other. The other nice item to add is to have a minimum star rating for photos to be included.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

Redesign the 'No disc' error to fit in with the Aero UI

Submitted by formula_86 on March 10, 2010 to Aesthetics, Legacy

Problem: Inspiration came from this: http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/3846

The 'No disc' error message design (more...)

Solution: Do whats suggested above.

Severity: Medium

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Have the taskbar resize like in a window (more smoothly).

Submitted by computerkid on March 13, 2010 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Currently when you resize the task bar, and keep your mouse held at a certain spot the windows is still in the same spot making it seem a little clunky in my opinion.

Solution: Make the windows move to fill up the space that is opened up when you resize the task bar (kinda like the way a window resizes). In my opinion, it could give the illusion of a faster system.

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(5 comments)

Boring Side Pane

Submitted by Manu on February 15, 2010 to Aesthetics

Problem: The side pane in the explorer is little bit (Sometimes a lot) boring, isn't it?
Please give me a suggestion to change that boring fade colour

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(4 comments)

Construct whole new UI design, vector icon package and programming API etc for Windows 7

Submitted by formula_86 on February 17, 2010 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy, Usability

Problem: As nice and pretty though Windows 7 is with its scalable vector based icons, Aero UI,WPF apis etc etc, lets face it: its based on a vintage win32 API which was cool and awesome in 1995, but because its now 15 years since, its time for a change methinks.

Solution: Reconstruct Windows 7 in whole new ways as suggested in the title.

Severity: High

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

(8 comments)

Make Windows Explorer have special effects similar to the file explorer in Mac OS X

Submitted by formula_86 on February 12, 2010 to Aesthetics, Usability

Problem: Its really boring to see all of my files arranged out in the same way as in all previous versions of Windows.

Solution: Why not add some special effects to explorer that looks like in the picture below? It would be perfect for multi-touch systems I reckon.

Severity: Low

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

(19 comments)