Comments by user "DavidTaraso"
Registered since: June 8, 2008
Restore Control Panel and Explorer Icons
I don't mind icons. If I did, all of my Control Panel mockups would have been plain text.
I'm saying there's places where you need icons, and places where you don't.. This is one of the places where you don't. Icons make sense in the taskbar because you don't want to be sitting there for 10 seconds reading all the labels figuring out which one is Explorer, etc.
In this case, you can't have "only icons". A lot of hte options that appear on the side panel are way too complex to be described by a single 16x16px icon. And having an icon + text here is pointless, because you can quickly see that "Check for updates" is right there in plain site, and will always be in the same place.
You can't have options everywhere in the OS for every feature to suite every user's personal taste. The OS wouldn't even be able to fit on a Blu-Ray disc if they did that. You just need to go with whatever makes the most sense. In this case, it's Text only.
Restore Control Panel and Explorer Icons
Why do you need icons? The interface looks much cleaner and simpler without them and I think it's quite obvious what each of the few links there do.
"Hm... This link says "check for updates", but there's no icon. What the hell is this? What do I do? Who am I? WHY GOD?!"
Icons only serve a purpose when there's an abundance of choices that the user can not quickly gaze around and spot the required item.
HomeGroup, Homegroup or homegroup: Pick one
What are you guys on about? It's still not fixed. Examples:
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t278/DavidTJCXP/HG.png
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t278/DavidTJCXP/HG2.png
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t278/DavidTJCXP/HG3.png
etc.
The problem is about when and how it is being capitalized. Sometimes it's being capitalized as "Homegroup", other times as "HomeGroup". And even then, this is a Windows feature, shouldn't it always be capitalized? You don't say "windows" or "windows media player" (or worse "windows media Player"), you say "Windows" or "Windows Media Player". So why are HomeGroups (... or Homegroups) an exception here?
Flip 3D could be more! more! useful this way
Isn't this pretty well what Alt+Tab already does? Just with smaller previews.
HomeGroup, Homegroup or homegroup: Pick one
Um, no it's not?
<FIXED> Speech Recognition Guide: update Wordpad screenshot
Fixed in 7057.
http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?s=&sho...=findpost&p=374321
[7048] Low-res icons in "Desktop Icon Settings"
Fixed in 7057.
HomeGroup, Homegroup or homegroup: Pick one
I'm on build 7048.
Tooltip for Close/Minimise/Maximise uses XP style
Ok, scrath that. Seems I just wasn't hovering over them long enough. They're still there, and still XP styled.
[7022] Start orb cropped
Fixed in 7048!
Folders should be previewable in Preview pane
Awesome idea, so true.
Tooltip for Close/Minimise/Maximise uses XP style
Fixed in 7048... The tooltips are gone now :P
Confirmation Dialogue for "Restore All Items" Needed
Changed title from [Confirmation Dialogue for "Restore All Items" Needed] to [[Fixed] Confirmation Dialogue for "Restore All Items" Needed].
Confirmation Dialogue for "Restore All Items" Needed
FIXED in 7048!! Woohoo!
It's Time: Unified Control Panel
Wrote on June 22, 2010, 6:28am
Changed problem description.
Changed solution description.