UI Bites
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A mega-thread for user interface failures that don't deserve their own thread.
For example:
Clicking on the "X" in the upper left corner doesn't do jack. To go back to the previous pane you have to click on the "X" in the upper right corner.
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@greybeard does the X in the upper left become a checkmark on green pages?
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@greybeard said in UI Bites:
for user interface failures that don't deserve their own thread
So, not GIMP. Check.
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What software is this? The technological age in my career has averaged about 3 years so I'm probably out of date. I assume it's some E2E interface. Does it come with all those browsers?
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@greybeard said in UI Bites:
You have to click on the "X" in the upper right corner.
just like everyone sane expects it.
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@shoreline said in UI Bites:
What software is this? The technological in my career has averaged about 3 years so I'm probably out of date. I assume it's some E2E interface. Does it come with all those browsers?
Looks like it's a Jenkins pipeline plugin, but I could be wrong.
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I could do these all day.
Visual Studio, SQL Database project, Schema Compare feature:
When you select "schema from project", if there's only one database project in the solution, instead of putting that as the only option in the combobox (thus making it pre-selected), they instead insert a blank row and then a second row with the one database project, and select the blank one by default:
This is one of those bugs that falls under the category of "doing more work to make your product worse". The lazy solution of not bothering to insert a blank row would have made this dialog 100 times more usable.
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@blakeyrat If it's WPF it doesn't mean more work but less. You have to explicitly set the SelectedIndex or something like that AFAIR.
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Chrome removed the ability to mute individual tabs. Now the mute option mutes all tabs of the same domain, and it remembers across restarts. No idea why they thought that was better.
Turns out it's even worse. You can still mute individual tabs but only by left-clicking the speaker icon which means you can't do it preemptively. The context menu option only mutes/unmutes the entire domain.
It's been really confusing me the last few days as sometimes I'd do one method or the other and I couldn't figure out why I was getting different results.
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Chrome removed the ability to mute individual tabs. Now the mute option mutes all tabs of the same domain, and it remembers across restarts. No idea why they thought that was better.
Turns out it's even worse. You can still mute individual tabs but only by left-clicking the speaker icon which means you can't do it preemptively. The context menu option only mutes/unmutes the entire domain.
It's been really confusing me the last few days as sometimes I'd do one method or the other and I couldn't figure out why I was getting different results.
Go to
chrome://settings/content/sound
and disable sound on all websites using the slidey thing. Then, add sites you want to allow sound from to the whitelist. All tabs on sites you don't whitelist will be muted on navigation, so you don't get an unmuted tab by browsing from a whitelisted site to one that isn't.Since it's tab-muted, you can unmute specific tabs preemptively.
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What is 'aspect ratio'?
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@ben_lubar WTF is depicted in that image?!
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Our local ATMs as you get cash.
Disclaimer: not actual photo. Image is meant to represent layout only. Actual machines do not use black-and-white color scheme or Comic Sans font.
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@zecc Last time I used an ATM they at least placed the "Yes" and "No" options on the same side of the display.
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Actual machines do not use black-and-white color scheme or Comic Sans font.
But they do feature crooked buttons?
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@zecc I'm OK with that; I don't want a receipt and I don't want to think about the environment. CONSISTENCY!
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Our local ATMs as you get cash.
Disclaimer: not actual photo. Image is meant to represent layout only. Actual machines do not use black-and-white color scheme or Comic Sans font.
You can't prove I didn't get cash here because there is no receipt!
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@ben_lubar WTF is depicted in that image?!
It appears to be two people dropping a giant thumbs-up shaped rock onto another person doing a handstand who is getting a handjob from a person on a unicycle.
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@ben_lubar What are the gymnast and unicyclist doing there anyway? Shouldn't they be performing in a circus or something, rather than impeding the progress of the two guys moving the Like?
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
@ben_lubar WTF is depicted in that image?!
It appears to be two people dropping a giant thumbs-up shaped rock onto another person doing a handstand who is getting a handjob from a person on a unicycle.
Those people's bodies are also severely out of proportion. Unicycle guy could probably touch his right foot standing upright.
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
It appears to be two people dropping a giant thumbs-up shaped rock onto another person doing a handstand who is getting a handjob from a person on a unicycle.
Looks more like a poster you'd see hanging on the wall in the girls' room on an episode of The Brady Bunch. The 70s are back, y'all!
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@zecc Won't somebody please think of the environment
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@antiquarian I did some thinking, and I think we should run it in a test environment first.
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SSMS Foreign Key Dialog
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Not so much UI, but UX. </>
Care to guess what the tooltip of the second option said?
Here's a hint:
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@zecc year of the linux desktop
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@tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
You can't prove I didn't get cash here because there is no receipt!
Yeah, that is futile. There is no problem that you could use the receipt to resolve. The only use for it I can imagine is the odd man or two who still insist in doing their own accounting all by hand instead of, you know, perhaps, just using the account statement.
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So the new Microsoft calculator seems to have something odd in its date difference calculation.
Here's from yesterday to a day in the past:
Looks OK. Here's from today to a day in the past:
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@jbert Interesting number. 613566756 is 4444444444 in base 8 and 100100100100100100100100100100 in base 2. I have no idea if this is significant.
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@blakeyrat Given his screenshot says "28 March" etc. maybe it's locale-related? Though that'd have to involve a pretty amateur mistake.
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@heterodox Nope, happens in en-US as well:
I don't recall it happening when I first set the To to Oct 30, 2017, but after I switched the From off then back onto today, it does it every time, but only when the From selection is today and the To is any of the last 3 days in Oct 2017.
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Hrm...
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I can repro.
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From: To: Result 27-Mar-2018 27-Oct-2017 5 months (151 days) 27-Mar-2018 28-Oct-2017 4 months, 3 weeks, 6 days (150 days) 27-Mar-2018 29-Oct-2017 4 months, 3 weeks, 6 days (149 days) 27-Mar-2018 30-Oct-2017 4 months, 3 weeks, 6 days (148 days) 27-Mar-2018 31-Oct-2017 4 months, 3 weeks, 6 days (147 days) 28-Mar-2018 27-Oct-2017 5 months, 1 days (152 days) 28-Mar-2018 28-Oct-2017 5 months (151 days) 28-Mar-2018 29-Oct-2017 5 months, 6 days (150 days) 28-Mar-2018 30-Oct-2017 5 months, 5 days (149 days) 28-Mar-2018 31-Oct-2017 5 months, 4 days (148 days)
(Win7Ent SP1 64-bit)
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Win7Ent SP1
Two questions:
- did you install updates in January or February
- have you installed updates this month
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@jbert ha! i can repo. I'm on a weird combination of Dutch regional settings and english language
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
Win7Ent SP1
Two questions:
- did you install updates in January or February
- have you installed updates this month
Neither. My image was last updated in... 2013?
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@ben_lubar said in UI Bites:
Win7Ent SP1
Two questions:
- did you install updates in January or February
- have you installed updates this month
Yes and yes.
I have also requested and received (most) admin rights for my machine. However, there are a few items that are set by administrative group policy that I cannot change (at least not easily with the default interfaces).
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However, there are a few items that are set by administrative group policy that I cannot change
If you hadn't updated this month, you could have.
And so could any program running on your computer, regardless of privileges.
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@drunkunicorn said in UI Bites:
I'm on a weird combination of Dutch regional settings and english language
yes but your calculator window is also 3px too wide!
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Can repro on swedish locale.
@MZH
Also:
613566756 * 7 = 4294967292Does that number look familiar to anyone?:)
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@stardaemon Welcome to the forums!