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| RE: first vista observations 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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