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Windows 7 and general bitching about OSes
costi:
--- Quote from: iindigo on January 09, 2009, 09:00:08 PM ---You may not care, but many do. When you stare at a computer screen for hours and hours each day, it's nice for the interface to not make your eyes bleed.
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Change or disable it then, I fail to see the problem. It can be done with a few clicks.
--- Quote ---Windows 2000, which was intended for companies, kicked the everliving shit out of Windows 98SE and Windows ME.
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These systems had nothing in common except the name, it's silly to compare them to each other.
--- Quote ---Windows could do DLLs in a similarly clean fashion. Have one universal directory for ALL DLLs organized into subdirectories based on function (e.g. Network, Graphics, etc), and include small, app-specific DLLs inside of a self-contained package pseudo-EXE.
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DLLs go in two places: Windows/system32 and the program directory where it was installed. I really fail to see the problem.
--- Quote ---Well I was partially suggesting that things such as the Programs start menu submenu and myriads of desktop shortcuts simply do not need to exist. Just have a cut-and-dry "programs go here" directory and make most applications self-contained (scattered DLLs everywhere = bad). Then if you really must have a program menu, just make it directly reflect the programs directory without the pointless shortcut middlemen.
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It's all fine and dandy up to the point where you install apps in different places and your theory falls apart ;)
iindigo:
--- Quote from: costi on January 10, 2009, 08:22:32 PM ---Change or disable it then, I fail to see the problem. It can be done with a few clicks.
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I repeat what I said earlier with how the default theme should be more practical/one-size-fits-all instead of "yay look I'm shiny". One can change themes, but it'd be nice to not have a burning need to do so.
--- Quote from: costi on January 10, 2009, 08:22:32 PM ---These systems had nothing in common except the name, it's silly to compare them to each other.
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True, but Microsoft really should have made ME a relabeled version of Win2K instead of branching it off of the Win9x core.
--- Quote from: costi on January 10, 2009, 08:22:32 PM ---DLLs go in two places: Windows/system32 and the program directory where it was installed. I really fail to see the problem.
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Both are rather messy. I hate how the system folder is a huge ball of ambiguously-named files. My suggestion would simply add some much-needed organization.
--- Quote from: costi on January 10, 2009, 08:22:32 PM ---It's all fine and dandy up to the point where you install apps in different places and your theory falls apart ;)
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No, not at all. Just drop a shortcut to the software located on a different location in the programs folder. When used that way, the shortcut isn't pointless.
per:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 09, 2009, 10:00:30 PM ---You mean look at it for 2 minutes before you start an actual program that you need to use... which is usually full screen.
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I more or less only run games in fullscreen/maximized mode. A webbrowser in 2560x1600 tends to be a bit too large...
Actually, if I was not playing games my computer would be running ubuntu. Oh well. :-)
iindigo:
--- Quote from: per on January 10, 2009, 08:37:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 09, 2009, 10:00:30 PM ---You mean look at it for 2 minutes before you start an actual program that you need to use... which is usually full screen.
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I more or less only run games in fullscreen/maximized mode. A webbrowser in 2560x1600 tends to be a bit too large...
Actually, if I was not playing games my computer would be running ubuntu. Oh well. :-)
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Yeah, even though 1680x1050 isn't nearly as large as 2560x1600, there's still a ton of blank space left on pages if I stretch my browser window to fill the screen...
costi:
--- Quote ---I repeat what I said earlier with how the default theme should be more practical/one-size-fits-all instead of "yay look I'm shiny". One can change themes, but it'd be nice to not have a burning need to do so.
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De gustibus non disputandum est...
--- Quote ---No, not at all. Just drop a shortcut to the software located on a different location in the programs folder. When used that way, the shortcut isn't pointless.
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That's what Windows does all the time ;)
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