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Re: Free the Icons

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Post by ktosobcy »

crazygringo wrote: post #36

I've got to disagree. I really disliked previously, when icon prominence could be wildly different because one icon takes up the full area with a big square, while another is a circle that necessarily has a significantly smaller area within the same extent. Icons from Apple were all nicely balanced in size, but third-party apps could be anything. Giving equal visual weight to each icon is an improvement. iOS was a st…

Hard disagree. For me quircles make finding the desired app way more difficult…

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Post by WillAdams »

coldpie wrote: post #227
WillAdams wrote: post #66

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The thing which kills me, is that with entirety of the State of California's Gazetteer to pull from, Apple didn't pull a page from Android and use an alphabetically ordered naming scheme so that folks could determine ordering of versions.

You know, someone should invent an infinite sequence of ordinal symbols which we could use to place things in a sequence. It could start with a simple vertical line, something like "1". Maybe someone more clever than me can come up with the next symbol.

Unfortunately, I lost track of how Mac OS X was numbered after 10.7.whatever the last iteration was.

Doesn't much matter, since 10.6.8 was the last version I truly enjoyed using.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

MayeulC wrote: post #183
jaffa2 wrote: post #169

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Its just as bad. Please define ‘back’

1. Hide virtual keyboard if shown 2. Go to previous app view. This is app-dependent though it will probably, successively with each press: a. Close menus if open (context, sidebar, etc) b. Go to previous (web)page if web/file browser c. Go out of submenus (ex: settings/WiFi -> settings) if not in a browser or if the oldest page has been reached. Keeps walking the tree upwards. 3. Reach the main app view (usually the…

My favorite was long pressing back to show the history. Perfect for escaping from a nav hijack page or returning to a page multiple steps ahead in history. Swipes are a downgrade in functionality.

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Post by ryukoposting »

al_borland wrote: post #182
paradox460 wrote: post #131

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"You're looking at it wrong"

It seems like the opposite of this. They tried to adapt the system to the way the eyes naturally work, rather than trying to tell people they needed to overcome their biology to use the system.

This is a false dichotomy. If the software assumes that people focus on the center of the thing they're looking at, the software is wrong. Fix the software.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by dang »

throwwwll wrote: post #148
crazygringo wrote: post #36

I've got to disagree. I really disliked previously, when icon prominence could be wildly different because one icon takes up the full area with a big square, while another is a circle that necessarily has a significantly smaller area within the same extent. Icons from Apple were all nicely balanced in size, but third-party apps could be anything. Giving equal visual weight to each icon is an improvement. iOS was a st…

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Re: Free the Icons

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Post by jaffa2 »

altern8 wrote: post #247
jaffa2 wrote: post #169

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Its just as bad. Please define ‘back’

Back means the previous screen. If you're in Chrome, the previous entry in the history. If you're in YouTube, the previous video. If you were previously on the main screen and you just clicked into an app, the main screen. What's confusing about it? Seems very intuitive to me, it's like CTRL+Z, it always changes what it does but the behavior is to undo the latest action.

On YouTube if enter a comment and decide i dont want to submit it after all, does back close the comment window and take me to the video, or does it take me to the previous video i viewed.

If i click a link in youtube and browser opens, does clicking back take me back to YouTube? Back in the browser? Back to the previous video.?

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by jaffa2 »

al_borland wrote: post #213
jaffa2 wrote: post #168

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1. Ive been using apple iphone since 2010 and i jave an iphone air right now. I still dont know how/why/when i seem to accidentally call the AI thing where the side of my acreen go all all funny. Ive never done it intentionally and i dont know how but every so often i trigger it. 2. Can apple ‘regress’ the camera app so the it is easy to use. The interface is a disaster of mixed inputs and over loaded widgets. Theres…

1. This is generally from holding in the lock button (the upper button on the right side). Maybe you're accidentally holding it in while gripping the phone. Some people tend to rest their thumb there and might start holding it on accident. 4. The top vs bottom search boxes drive me nuts. I still instinctively reach for the top of the screen for search, so going to the bottom is weird. The move to the bottom is also a…

I press the lock button long, short, tap, it doesn’t do ‘the thing’ like yellow wobbles around the edge of screen.

Re: Free the Icons

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Post by Gigachad »

al_borland wrote: post #222
Gigachad wrote: post #130

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Liquid Glass was a good step in the right direction imo. A choice to make visual entertainment and beauty a priority over pure function. I feel like what computers really lost was sounds, we used to have so many joyful sounds and background music on computers while now they are all silent. I think it’s a tragedy the Nintendo switch broke the long history of music in the menus and apps.

I wonder if the sound reduction is a result of computers moving into more and more spaces, rather than relegated to a single dedicated area. Beeps and boops going off all the time can be really annoying in public spaces.

Highly likely, though I still think the Nintendo Switch should have had sounds. Maybe computers should restore a dedicated mute switch or something users can toggle when they are in a quiet space.
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