Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?
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@DustinB3403 said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
It could just be that Microsoft hired people who were decent at programming and had little to no aesthetic/design taste. .
I think it is pretty unreasonable to think that decades into Microsoft being one of the world's biggest dev companies that they didn't have UX specialists touching every single aspect of the GUI.
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@travisdh1 said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@Dashrender said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@Dashrender said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@WrCombs said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
I was actually just talking about this with some coworkers of mine.
If you ever work with any other system, then work with Windows, it's shocking how silly and ridiculous it is. You can't "see" anything. It's like they wanted to mock people for choosing the GUI.
I love how you frequently go to this - they must want to mock people..
Because it's one of the few logical, and consistent potential reasonings. Why do you find it strange, when it's way more viable and logical than thinking Microsoft is just bad at what they do?
Sure - they might just be bad at what they do. But that doesn't mean they are purposefully mocking people.
@scottalanmiller is giving them more credit than you are. He's assuming they are competent at least. Which one could only logically reason that they are having a good joke on us.
Exactly. I'm assuming that they are a big, well funded, highly competent software company that, while it can make mistakes from time to time, is generally logical, reasonable, and capable. Basically, all the assumptions someone would be required to make to use their products.
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@scottalanmiller with any devel tool and namely with more "modern" WPF it is trivial to make big controls which scale with window size or screen resolution.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@scottalanmiller with any devel tool and namely with more "modern" WPF it is trivial to make big controls which scale with window size or screen resolution.
Simply a lot of SW is badly designed.Yeah, most things by default don't have these kinds of problems.
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@Dashrender said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@scottalanmiller said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
@WrCombs said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:
I was actually just talking about this with some coworkers of mine.
If you ever work with any other system, then work with Windows, it's shocking how silly and ridiculous it is. You can't "see" anything. It's like they wanted to mock people for choosing the GUI.
I love how you frequently go to this - they must want to mock people..
I'm sure it rarely if ever actually starts there. As already said - it was legacy, and never updated. They are finally getting around to updating most of the control panel applets - but we're still frequently stuck dealing with the old style for things like the java security admin, etc.
But wouldn't that be hilarious if it were true?
Internal MS plot to fuck with people: "Haha these idiots buying our operating system for the GUI... you know what would REALLY be funny? Release management tools that they can't see, so they have to squint their eyes and get really close to the screen. Their eyesight will get worse and they'll look even older while doing it with that stupid look on their face. HAH!!"
