• (disco) in reply to Planar
    Planar:
    I'll go with accusation.

    To be fair to me, I don't feel in the slightest British; I regard myself as an English European. My ancestry is East Anglian, Huguenot and very probably Jewish; I really don't have much in common with the Scots or the Irish and I favour Scottish devolution. What this has to do with professionalism I don't know, but someone thought it was important enough to post about it.

  • (disco) in reply to Scarlet_Manuka
    Scarlet_Manuka:
    Actually the real time-killer and with the Ribbon is trying to explain to my wife how to do something... and yes, this was painful before, too, but at least there were typically fewer steps to talk her through.

    This is so true. Once upon a time you could say to somebody "OK type cd space {something} enter, now type ls -l, what do you see? Nowadays just getting someone to view the contents of a folder in a UI is complex and depends on the particular Windows version, you have to describe icons to people. (Remote management is not always possible.) And when you have non-visual users, getting them to describe icons is more or less impossible.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    If you truly were, you'd be using mostly keyboard shortcuts.
    I do. But not for things like "clear filter".
  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    I liked the Ribbon a lot better after I learned it can be reduced to only the header buttons and have the menus drop down when you click the titles.

  • (disco) in reply to anotherusername

    Yes, because vertical screen space is at such a premium these days it totally makes it worth that extra click every time you need to do anything

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa

    The trend of going to 1600x900 widescreen gives less vertical space than 1280x1024. And it's not like you don't usually have to make the extra click anyway because what you needed was on a different tab.

  • (disco) in reply to anotherusername
    anotherusername:
    1600x900

    I never saw that resolution, ever. 1366x768, 1680x1050 and 1920x1080 are the common widescreen sizes around here.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    I certainly have. My laptop's screen is 1600x900, and it is an available (but not recommended) resolution for both of my external monitors.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    I don't think I've ever seen native 1600x900 screens IRL, but I've seen it as an option when building laptops.

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