Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
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Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#2Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor?
Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Microsoft REMOVED the color-scheme editor from Windows. WTF?
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#3Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor? Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Microsoft REMOVED the color-scheme editor from Windows. WTF?
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes.
Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly!
Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier versions of Win 10.
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#4Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor? Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Microsoft REMOVED the color-scheme editor from Windows. WTF?
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier version…
> I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes.
Out of pure curiosity, how does that protect your eyes? And from what?
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier version…
> I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Out of pure curiosity, how does that protect your eyes? And from what?
It doesn't. Eye fatigue is caused by being focused on the same depth for prolonged periods of time. That fixed depth being slightly closer or further away changes very little.
Having a habit of regularly looking away from your monitor and focusing on a distant object negates it. When doing prolonged microscopy work, we were trained to take a break every 30 min and focus on something very close, then focus on something far, back and forth, several times.
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#6Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor? Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Microsoft REMOVED the color-scheme editor from Windows. WTF?
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier version…
With custom UI toolkits more prevalent than ever these days, do such tweaks even work across a wide range of applications?
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#7Great. Did they bring back the color-scheme editor? Now that everyone is (30+ years later) finally realizing that inverse-video color schemes are dumb... Microsoft REMOVED the color-scheme editor from Windows. WTF?
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier version…
Windows is now an OS for amateurs and not professionals.
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier version…
> I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Out of pure curiosity, how does that protect your eyes? And from what?
I suppose that is to avoid to look at a large screen too close.
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work using a TV screen from a distance to protect my eyes. Microsoft pissed me off when they removed the ability to selectively increase font-size of elements like context menus, labels, content / message boxes... Without this, I'd have to zoom everything - font, and icons - pixelated and ugly! Now I'm forced to use winaero tweaker which doesn't allow all the changes I could in Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and earlier version…
With custom UI toolkits more prevalent than ever these days, do such tweaks even work across a wide range of applications?
It worked for all the applications I use except one - a music player.
And in that music player, it mostly worked except for some dialog boxes.
Re: Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
#10The biggest problem with Microsoft is them not sticking to their strength. I was an avid fanboy till Windows 7. This was an OS that could cater to power users- keyboard shortcuts, powershell (shitty console but anyway).
They started running after the touch segment and deliberately removed the keyboard interface. They didn't get the app-buyers and the keyboard people (like me) probably left them.
Linux is mature now, onedrive has replacements and I can use the web-interface of onenote or the full interface with dual-booting. So I don't need Windows as a developer anymore.
I know Satya Nadella directly or indirectly monitors this board and I know this wasn't his doing but remember when Mr ballmer (the same guy who let this stupidity happen) chanted developers, it was for a reason- if you don't cater to power users and developers your platform will not see apps and then you lose regular users too.
I say this personally too- I had a Windows specific app Idea that I had to drop because Windows was unusable for me. I know MS gets a lot of 'hate' and irresponsible advice so they probably just ignore most so called suggestions but I am being honest, I really want to use Windows, I genuinely think that Macs are overrated and Linux has an app problem- but I cannot. I can offer one terse advice- don't force stuff on people. Give them options. That was Windows's biggest strenght