Most recent submissions by user "Cuppa"
Registered since: June 3, 2008
Minimised window border corners in Aero Peek are ugly
When using Aero Peek, minimised and non-minimised windows are rightly differentiated in appearance*. However, the corners of minimised windows look a bit strange on a light background and downright ugly on a dark background. See the screenshot.
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Make the window corners the same as those of non-minimised windows.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Aero Basic dark border colour changes at top of side edges
The dark grey outer border colour on Aero Basic windows changes slightly just beneath the Close button (and at the same point on the left edge). See the screenshot.
(Even by my standards this is nitpicking - but I don't see why it (more...)
Use the same colour along the entire side edges.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Text glow in title bar is clipped on maximised IE8 window
When an Internet Explorer 8 window is maximised, the glow behind the text in the title bar is clipped at the bottom (visible due to the extended glass). This is not an issue when the window is not maximised.
Screenshot is on a black background (more...)
Let the text glow extend beneath the dimensions of the title bar.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Ugly blue line remains in Aero Basic
Windows 7 mercifully removed the nasty blue line from the bottom and right borders of focused Aero windows. Unfortunately, it remains in Aero Basic.
From top to bottom, the screenshots are of Aero in Windows 7, Aero in Windows Vista and (more...)
Remove the blue line from Aero Basic windows.
High
Low
Not fixed
'All Control Panel Items' list should be sorted top-to-bottom, not left-to-right
The sorting of Control Panel items in the classic view is hard to follow. By sorting the names left-to-right rather than top-to-bottom, finding an item requires more effort than necessary.
Since there is only room for a few entries on each (more...)
Sort the items top-to-bottom, not left-to-right, or at the very least provide this as an option.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Tooltips for Network, Action Center, Language Bar and Clock are not native
For some reason, the tooltips for the Network and Action Center tray icons, Language Bar items, and the clock are not quite native. They're fairly good imitations, but why do they need to be imitations at all?
Differences from (more...)
Use native tooltips, unless there is some technical benefit to continue faking them, in which case do a better job.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
IE should use native menus
IE8's menus don't all have normal styling. In particular, the submenu 'arrow' turns white when hovered (rather than staying black), and disabled items have a different text colour and selection colour when hovered (compared to normal (more...)
Use native menu styling.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Hover effect is different between taskbar items/notification area items/clock
The mouseover effect (the white glow that appears from the bottom) is inconsistent in the taskbar. For shortcuts on the taskbar and for the clock, there is no fade-in/out (the glow just appears and disappears in one state). For notification area items, (more...)
Consistently use fade-in/out for the glow hover effect in the taskbar.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Disk Management MMC Snap-in is visually outdated
This is a repost from Aero Taskforce: http://www.aerotaskforce.com/view/66
The Disk Management tool looks like it belongs in (more...)
High
Low
Not fixed
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Network and Sharing Center scales badly
Also an issue in Vista: http://www.aerotaskforce.com/view/302
The window basically doesn't scale very well - icons get (more...)
Display scrollbars when resizing past a certain width (rather than trying to squash everything together).
Medium
Low
Not fixed
User Account Control Settings page has room for improvement
There are several things wrong here:
1. There are no scrollbars when the content overflows.
2. There is white space on either side of the grey bar containing the 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons.
3. The information (more...)
Medium
Low
Fixed
Windows Media Player Plugin is not properly themed
The WMP plugin for browsers has some theming issues:
1. Tooltips use the XP style.
2. Buttons (in the Options window, etc.) are not themed.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Text glow on alt-tab window isn't properly cleared
Sometimes the text glow on the alt-tab window isn't properly cleared when switching between windows. Specifically, switching from a window that has a long title (that doesn't fit in the available space) to a window with a short title results (more...)
Properly clear the text glow.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Language Bar has multiple issues
1. The menu style is non-standard.
2. The IME Pad for Japanese acts very strangely - buttons don't have have mouseover animations (even the Close button doesn't glow).
3. The glow over language bar items in the taskbar is non-standard.
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Medium
Medium
Not fixed