Yes, the new sidebar does not allow you to change the size of your specified
gadgets. I like to make some smaller and others, like the slide show of
pictures, for instance, bigger. I also HATE that I cannot use auto hide.
And what happend to all the old gadgets?
--
Jessica


"Brian Shapiro" wrote:

>
> Since I've installed the beta of Vista I've noticed a lot of ways it could
> be improved, some things are more like bugs that need to be worked out, but
> others need to be brought to attention---
>
> : you should be able to drag a file to a folder name thats present in the
> breadcrumb bar. instead of copying, changing the folder, and pasting (or
> using the navigation pane if its open) i want to be able to easily drag to
> folders using the breadcrumb navigation. this would include both the names
> displayed on the bar (the parent folders) and those that are on the
> dropdowns. so for instance, if i drag a file over the arrow on the
> breadcrumb bar, it should drop down, letting me drop it on a folder in the
> list.
>
> : windows explorer needs to remember the width that the user gave to the
> different layout panes. i find myself having to to resize the navigation
> pane's width and the different sizes i set to the favorites and tree
> sections every time i restart explorer.
>
> : the reading pane is not part of the folder view options but the general
> windows explorer layout options, so it doesn't have a setting per folder. i
> sort of would like it if i could have it appear for folders i've set it to
> open for in the past; so certain folders that are image or document
> libraries would have a reading pane and it would automatically disappear for
> other folders. i'm thinking the reading pane should be collapsable, in order
> to be nicer to use, like the folder tree is collapsable within the
> navigation pane. it would also be nice if the favorite places section were
> collapsable like the folder section.
>
> : the tray icon for the sidebar, if its there, really needs to change from a
> picture of a desktop with a sidebar (which is a mirror copy of what you see
> on the screen) to some other type of representation. it would also be nice
> that clicking on the tray icon opened and closed the sidebar, instead of
> bringing up a menu and requiring you to double click--and if the sidebar
> isn't on top, then instead of closing the sidebar, clicking on the tray icon
> would merely bring the sidebar to the top. this would allow quicker and
> easier access to the sidebar when you're using other programs, and if you
> don't want it to take up space by having it set to be always on top.
>
> : one thing i didn't like about the sidebar even in the first incarnation,
> when it was different, was that it simply looked awkward and ugly as another
> bar sitting on top of the tasbar. the fade to black style however is very
> nice and elegant. thie old sidebar had an auto-hide feature, as i
> understand, and some people didn't like it because the area where the cursor
> would lead the sidebar to show up was next to scroll bars. the solution i
> mentioned regarding changing how the tray icon works would do something like
> auto-hide but it still isn't that good of a way to do it. i wouldn't mind if
> you could set there to be a narrow band on the right hand side, where if you
> clicked it, it would expand the sidebar (overlaying it on top of the other
> windows instead of taking up space).
>
> :one thing i didn't like about the sidebar even in the first incarnation,
> when it was different, was that it simply looked awkward and ugly as another
> bar sitting on top of the tasbar. the fade to black style however is very
> nice and elegant. thie old sidebar had an auto-hide feature, as i
> understand, and some people didn't like it because the area where the cursor
> would lead the sidebar to show up was next to scroll bars. the solution i
> mentioned regarding changing how the tray icon works would do something like
> auto-hide but it still isn't that good of a way to do it. i wouldn't mind if
> you could set there to be a narrow band on the right hand side, where if you
> clicked it, it would expand the sidebar (overlaying it on top of the other
> windows instead of taking up space).
>
> the ideal Notes gadget would work like a OneNote SideNote, though
>
> : opening a music file while WMP is opened but minimized shouldn't force WMP
> to come out of a minimized state. i know you can drag the file to the
> taskbar minimization and it wont force WMP to restore to a window, but it
> doesnt make sense that you should have to take that step.
>
> : i'm wondering why vista isn't getting thumbnails for me for my mpeg files
> or my html or mhtml files, though; and while 'show file icon on thumbnails'
> apparently doesn't apply to image thumbnails. maybe this has to do something
> with the fact that the 'associate file type or protocol' control panel is
> spotty and unfinished. theres no icon for type 1 fonts and the way icons
> appear in the fonts folder is strange (and strangely i cant seem to use
> paste in the fonts folder)
>
> : i still don't understand why a clipboard viewer has been removed. is the
> default way to figure out whats in your clipboard to paste it (a clipbook
> Sidebar gadget maybe, please?).... btw, why did they remove the ability to
> drag from a document to explorer to create a 'scrap' file on your computer?
> i realize probably not many people used this feature, but im not sure why it
> was disabled. a security hazard?
>
> : there are a bunch of bugs i've noticed, like the rotate text in the
> context menu for pictures not appearing, the hover preview in photo gallery
> stopping to work after a while, etc, but i expect these are known about and
> will be fixed, i'm more interested in making sure that ui problems are
> smoothed out.
>
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