I’ve been using Windows 7 Ultimate for just a few days, yet I’m already miffed by a few glaringly obvious oversights in the design of some of the most often seen parts of the GUI; the Start Menu.
As you can see in this screenshot, there are two particular areas which I consider design oversights when they were apparently overhauling the GUI to make it look nicer. First is the appearance of the “menu” displayed when I expand “Computer” (it would be the same for any folder – I just have the others set to act as links, not menus). It appears as though they decided to use a generic Windows “context menu” container to display the file list, however you would figure that for the nice and fancy new Start Menu that they could have put a bit more “love” in there and made it look more integrated (such as you’ll get if you were to expand one of the items in the Start Menu list such as “Sticky Notes” or “Windows Virtual PC” in this particular screenshot). I think it would have made it look much nicer, complete, and more thought out.
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So I was poking around my old emails today trying to locate my “Welcome” email to the Trillian Astra beta program so I could download the latest build when I came across this little jem of a thread. Unfortunately I don’t have all the correspondence… seems I decided to just keep the ending part (which was the best).
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I’ve been using RoboForm2Go for a while now – started using it back when it was still called Pass2Go. I like it, it’s a decent program and works fairly well. I like how it’s data is organized and it’s a few steps ahead stuff like KeePass (though KeePass does seem to be catching up).
I did notice a problem with RoboForm’s Firefox XPI toolbar plugin however, in that when you had a “minimalistic” window open (such as view source, or a JavaScript popup that had no toolbars specified), it would still attach the RoboForm toolbar to it at the bottom, usually hiding any horizontal scroll bar the window had. Now it’s not such a big deal to just click the little close box on the toolbar so I could use the scrollbar, but it is still very annoying since I tend to use the “view source” feature quite a bit. I also know that this is very much a bug in their program or adapter because I have other toolbars in Firefox which do not exhibit this same behaviour.
So I figured I’d be nice and bug-report the problem for them to ensure they were aware of it. I was somewhat surprised however with how their support staff (William, or so he decided to call himself since his Indian name is probably not “customer friendly” or something) has decided to handle it.
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I’m sorry to say, but it’s true. The current state of most of the potentially great Linux distributions is disgusting. I don’t even know if the maintainers of the distributions are aware that they have a problem or not, but they do – and it’s a big one.
I’ve been using Linux for many, many years and I have used quite a few of the various distributions of Linux available over those years and have never been happy with any of them. I started off using Slackware about 9 years ago and just didn’t know enough about Linux back then to be aware of how much of a mess that installation was – but it was bad. After a while of upgrading the system manually (packages referred to grabbing the .tar.gz manually and reading up on how to configure and make the entire thing yourself back then), I was quickly aware of how much crap was on the system that just didn’t need to be there.
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Today was rather interesting – got up and checked my email and sorted through the few bits of spam I enjoy getting, but one particular one caught my eye… They were trying to sell me a domain name that I already owned?!
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