GitHub for Windows

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Thu May 24 11:06:14 PDT 2012


On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> On 5/23/2012 1:23 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>
>> On May 23, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.**com<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 3. erratic issues with sharing directories. Sharing was simple with XP -
>>> one click to share, another to unshare. Win7 has a maze of dialog boxes
>>> and
>>> alternate ways of doing it, some work, some don't, and no feedback on
>>> whether it works or not.
>>>
>>
> [ WinXP would superimpose a hand image over a shared directory. In Win7,
> there's no indication. ]
>
>
>
>> I have a terrible time figuring out how to do anything "advanced" on Win7
>> compared to XP. The missing menu bar is a problem too. In terms of overall
>> usability, XP is still the best Windows IMO.
>>
>
> I find the new Win7 to be much too clever. For example, if you move a
> window up
> against the top edge of the screen, it switches to full screen. Aggh. I
> know why that was done, but it's just tailfins and taillights in the shape
> of jet engines. I prefer utilitarian interfaces.
>
>
I actually love AeroSnap.  Not for that maximization feature but for what
it does when you drag to the left and right sides of the screen.  It makes
working between two locations or from two windows (say a text editor and a
reference) much easier.


> Speaking of which, it annoys me that pdf files in a folder *still* won't
> use an icon that is the first page of the pdf. I really like that my ipod
> does that - but the kindle and windows won't.
>
> Also bad is although you can specify a "folder.jpg" as the icon for a
> folder, it shows it as a distorted trapezoid!! Gah. Too darn clever for me.
>
>
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