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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra are you one of those people who types "Google" into the search bar in a browser?
No, but I wanted to put a react emoji on a message, and there's no other way to do so expect through this dialog.
I think, for , a “react” emoji can't be any one, but only one from a specific set.
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a “react” emoji
Something horrific with blending JS and HTML as an emoji? Sounds cromulent.
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Microsoft recently updated Outlook.com.
The toolbar changes seem mostly good, with one exception: The up/down arrow buttos for switching to the next and previous mail.
They changed them into buttons explicitly labeled "previous" and "next". "previous" always goes up in the list, "next" always goes down in the list.
...Even when mails are sorted by descending order of arrival. Especially when mails are sorted by descending order of arrival, I want to say, because AFAIK it's the order 90% of people use.Now, your once-unambiguous Up arrow button is now a button labeled "Previous" which in most cases takes you to the next mail, and vice versa.
I know, this is far from the first webmail to have this problem (my ISP's webmail had the same problem for years). But it's the webmail that used to eschew this misfeature, only to add it in yesterday.
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@Medinoc Working as designed: it's previous in the list, not previous in time, and same vis a vis next.
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@TwelveBaud said in UI Bites:
@Medinoc Working as designed: it's previous in the list, not previous in time, and same vis a vis next.
And "Up" and "Down" made this much more explicit and unambiguous. Why change it?
Edit: Also, "Working as designed" is exactly why I called it a misfeature, not a bug.
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@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
only to add it in yesterday.
Microsoft is catching
upprevious
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Following the movie and TV trend of modernized remakes that nobody likes, IMDB got a redesign, and (shocking) it was universally hated during the beta phase. They "took that feedback into consideration" when they released it, unmodified, to the public.
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@hungrier Looking at the comments on that post, I did not see any favorable comments. None. (One liked a couple of the changes but was still overall negative.) The only comments that weren't complaints were from an employee defending the changes. I didn't read all of the hundreds of comments, but with the first few dozen being so overwhelmingly one-sided, the tide of public opinion (and IMDB's obvious disdain for it) seems unlikely to change in comments further down the page.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
public opinion (and IMDB's obvious disdain for it)
I mean, that's kind of their business model.
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@hungrier You've made me learn there's going to be yet another Indiana Jones movie, and now I'm sad.
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@hungrier You've made me learn there's going to be yet another Indiana Jones movie, and now I'm sad.
That was actually the genesis of my latest trip to IMDB
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Zoom derped on one person in this meeting and they're displayed as Firstname "Firstname Lastname" Lastname.
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DoubleTriple UI bite from Etsy!I ordered some stuff ('tis the season etc.), and after paying and going through the bank 2FA stuff the Etsy page changed to:
The page was stuck on that for quite some time (I'd say a minute or so, long enough that I started to wonder if something was wrong and took a snapshot for here). number 1.
I would have resized the window to make the snapshot smaller, but just as I did that the page finally changed. Or rather, it just... disappeared. The tab got closed without any input. So that's number 2.
I had other tabs open (because I was comparing a couple of items before buying) so as I went back to that other tab I noticed my cart was still showing "1 item." Not really a surprise, the page hadn't been refreshed. So I clicked that cart, and got number 3:
(I got the confirmation email alright, so no real problem in the order, just the website)
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(I got the confirmation email alright, so no real problem in the order, just the website)
Tis this season!
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@dcon though given the projected delivery date, I had to play the holiday's roulette of "where will my family and myself be around that date (at my home, my mother's, my brother's...?) so I have a chance to actually get the package in time?"
'tis the season indeed.
There's a legend that some people can actually buy their presents well in advance to avoid all that. I think they are as real as students who don't wait until the last moment to write their assignments.
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Status: Yes.... continue....?
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Status: Usually I use MS Office at work, but I have to edit a presentation for private reasons that my predecessor created in Libre Office Impress. I first tried PowerPoint anyway, but some parts are not compatible (stop using unneccesarily fancy features!) so I downloaded Libre Office instead.
First thing it does is ask you which UI style you want, so I select the Ribbon-style tabs.Oh dear. I'm not sure what toolkit Libre Office uses, but I fear it's GTK. This probably looks better on Windows or Linux, but their toolkit's idea of platform integration together with "let's build a ribbon from standard components like tabs" does not blend well with the Mac UI.
WTF is that horizontal line going through everything? And why are the "tabs" so far off to the right that half of them are cut off?
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@topspin Yeah, that's pretty bad. It is better on Windows since it has the right height for the "Quick Access Toolbar" and tab row:
I use the standard toolbar instead, not that I use LibreOffice much.
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@Parody That looks reasonable.
But why is 1 of the 6 window corners we see here rounded and the other 5 are not?
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If you look closely, the other 5 are rounded too, but the part that should be transparent is opaque (the color is slightly different).
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@Zerosquare oh, you’re right.
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@Zerosquare Yep. When you use Alt-Print Screen Windows 11 captures a rectangle with whatever's behind the rounded corners instead of making them transparent. The wallpaper I had at the time was red. The one light corner is probably because I took the screenshot on top of Paint.NET.
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Windows 11 captures a rectangle with whatever's behind the rounded corners instead of making them transparent.
Huh. Apparently it's an entire pixel of border inclusive.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Windows 11 captures a rectangle with whatever's behind the rounded corners instead of making them transparent.
Huh. Apparently it's an entire pixel of border inclusive.
That may only be if it's drawing its own window frame instead of having the system do it? Not sure. Mine usually have a one pixel red border since I have "Show accent color on title bars and window borders" enabled and I picked a red color as the accent color.
Edit: I think it's just the Show accent color setting. With it off I get whatever was behind the window.
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Oh dear. I'm not sure what toolkit Libre Office uses, but I fear it's GTK. This probably looks better on Windows or Linux, but their toolkit's idea of platform integration together with "let's build a ribbon from standard components like tabs" does not blend well with the Mac UI.
WTF is that horizontal line going through everything? And why are the "tabs" so far off to the right that half of them are cut off?
That would be a very strange bug if they actually did use Gtk, because the Gtk has fairly simple box model that keeps things from overlapping. You can make them to, but it won't happen by mistake.
Alas, it does not seem LibreOffice would use Gtk. Rather it looks like they are just doing it their own way.
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Oh dear. I'm not sure what toolkit Libre Office uses, but I fear it's GTK. This probably looks better on Windows or Linux, but their toolkit's idea of platform integration together with "let's build a ribbon from standard components like tabs" does not blend well with the Mac UI.
WTF is that horizontal line going through everything? And why are the "tabs" so far off to the right that half of them are cut off?
That would be a very strange bug if they actually did use Gtk, because the Gtk has fairly simple box model that keeps things from overlapping. You can make them to, but it won't happen by mistake.
Alas, it does not seem LibreOffice would use Gtk. Rather it looks like they are just doing it their own way.
Apparently they are. They use a home-grown thing called VCL. (It's not Borland's VCL.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
Does this count?
E_NO_OBVIOUS_MISSING_DATA
It's been washed away.
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Does the uninstaller play a washing machine sound effect while it removes the files?
Filed under: feature request
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Does the uninstaller play a washing machine sound effect while it removes the files?
Filed under: feature request
Only if they use sdelete.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Does the uninstaller play a washing machine sound effect while it removes the files?
Filed under: feature request
Only if they use sdelete.
But that's full of bleach!
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Well, I stumbled upon that a few days earlier :
@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
I have read the ?
From a job application form:
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@BernieTheBernie not quite since it's a different website. More of a #metoo?
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Oh Jira... (screenshot intentionally snipped to avoid section with actual tickets in it). Note the vast expanse of white below? That's part of the same window. But the Jira board didn't decide to resize....
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@Benjamin-Hall Well, the page height is driven by the size of the content. If there is a lot of it, it scrolls, but from that it follows that when there is just a little of it, it won't even extend to the bottom.
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@Tsaukpaetra
It's probably right where you left it
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Just discovered the calendar in Outlook web doesn't have scrollbars, neither horizontal nor vertical. You can still scroll with the mouse wheel, if you had a horizontal one at least.
Even while scrolling it doesn't show an Apple-style temporary one.Fucking design-wankers trying to badly imitate Apple bullshit.
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if you had a horizontal one at least.
Even if you hadn't, there's an alternative. (which maybe or not work)
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@Zecc it doesn’t, but Shift works. Good point.
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calendar in Outlook
speaking of Outlook ... they moved the calender cheese from the bottom left to top left
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