Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
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Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#2> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft.
Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#3> you can open a file by dragging it onto an app on the taskbar
I honestly thought this wasn't true because it never worked when I tried it. Is the third party support for this feature just really lacking compared to macOS where it seems universal?
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#4I've never once in all my years of using Windows dragged a file onto an application in the taskbar to open that file. I didn't even know that was a thing you could do until this post.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#5Didn't even know you could do that. Maybe Microsoft's Telemetry figured out that not many people knew it also.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#6They killed drag and drop and changed right click menus from the recent files list on pinned apps. I knew I was going to hate this modern ui right then.
Sure it was a complex menu but it was so feature rich.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#7> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.
If you like choice I can really recommend KDE. It's got much more configurability than Windows or Mac. You'll be no longer stuck with what a mega corporation decides is best for you. I run it on top of FreeBSD myself.
Gnome is nice too but suffers from the same lack of configurability. It's too opinionated like Mac. You can make it more flexible but you'll end up having a lot of plugins that end up being hard to maintain across version updates. Every time I'm looking for a function in Gnome and Google it I find an old thread discussing how it used to have it but the Devs removed it because they didn't agree with it or deem it necessary.
In contrast with that the idea of "Options everywhere!" seems to still be the KDE philosophy so if you like choice this is the place to go IMO :)
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#8The lack of vertical taskbar is so mind bogglingly stupid, I don't know what to say.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#9> In Windows 11, the taskbar lost some other quite popular features users enjoyed in Windows 10. For example, you can no longer move the taskbar to the top, right, or left.
I have a feeling this is gonna be the big issue for some people. I personally just leave it at the bottom, but there's something to be said that when you have a standard 16:9 monitor, it doesn't make sense to remove that space from the vertical axis when most content is already too wide for that aspect ratio.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#10> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.
I'm not sure this change is reason enough to give up possibly decades of experience with Windows. Switching platforms can slow your work down for months if you have a unique and optimized workflow.