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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> > Now remember that there's a "Yes Sir, all of them", but no "No, none of them
> > please, just the other ones"...
>
> Hold the shift key, or control key, or something. It's out there - they just
> (for some stupid reason) didn't dedicate a button.
.... and for another stupid reason they don't tell you that.
Ah, I love Microsoft! If computers would just DWIT, wouldn't they be awfully
boring? :P
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > I think someone told that the reason was that they only designed boxes
> > with two buttons. So apparently the graphics design artist got priority
> > over useablility.
>
> More like "we already have a library routine for 2 buttons" than something
> graphics design, perhaps.
Actually, "we already have a library routine for dialogs that show a message and
a choice of buttons from "Ok", "Yes/No", "Yes/No/Cancel" and the like.
But they must have designed that "Yes/All/No/Cancel" dialog separately - it's
not a standard thing. And if a dialog features a way to say "None" by pressing
certain keys while clicking, it has to be custom-tailored as well. Or using
dirty tricks that can explode in your face the day after.
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clipka wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> I think someone told that the reason was that they only designed boxes
>>> with two buttons. So apparently the graphics design artist got priority
>>> over useablility.
>> More like "we already have a library routine for 2 buttons" than something
>> graphics design, perhaps.
>
> Actually, "we already have a library routine for dialogs that show a message and
> a choice of buttons from "Ok", "Yes/No", "Yes/No/Cancel" and the like.
Well, yes.
Just as bad are the dialog boxes that have "yes/no" or "ok/cancel" when what
they really want is "save/discard" or "really save as plain text and lose
the formatting" vs "change the format of the saved file so you don't lose
formatting". :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
back to version 1.0."
"We've done that already. We call it 2.0."
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clipka wrote:
> Interesting thing I always wonder, what does Windows Explorer do when it
> "prepares to copy" files?
I'm assuming it's counting up sizes so it can give you an estimate of how
long it'll take. It's also pretty annoying that now when you move a
directory to another place on the same disk, or into the recycle bin, it
usually winds up counting something instead of just moving the one
directory. Weird.
> But noooo...
Wait for Windows 8? That sort of stuff is pretty hard to get right,
generally speaking. Vista is still better with this stuff than XP was.
Heck, I'd be happy if the little pieces of paper stopped flying from one
folder to the other when the copy actually broke. WTF good is a progress
indicator that runs regardless of whether you're making progress?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
back to version 1.0."
"We've done that already. We call it 2.0."
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> Oh, hell. My number one pet peeve... Move a directory, or like 200 files.
> ***One*** frakking file, like 21 files in is "in use" by some process some
> place, and you don't remember that,
Worst is when it's actually *Explorer* that has the file open, to show a
thumbnail or read properties of whatever...
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scott wrote:
>> Oh, hell. My number one pet peeve... Move a directory, or like 200
>> files. ***One*** frakking file, like 21 files in is "in use" by some
>> process some place, and you don't remember that,
>
> Worst is when it's actually *Explorer* that has the file open, to show a
> thumbnail or read properties of whatever...
Yeah. Plug-ins can do this too. We use "zip genius" at work, and half the
time I can't copy a zip file because the genius is doing something with the
file, and I have to open a command prompt to delete it. (I'm guessing the
genius is reading thru the TOC any time it's selected in explorer or
something. No idea, but it's very annoying.)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
back to version 1.0."
"We've done that already. We call it 2.0."
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:33:30 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Microsoft Arrrrggghhh!
Product naming FTW!
(Is this product related to Bob at all?)
Jim
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