Just created this blog to let out my frustration about software I use daily and hate the most. As a geek who spends most of his day on a computer, I can't help to get cranky on badly designed, misconceived or plain totally unusable software / interfaces.
With that in mind, I'll steam off once or twice a week over here & rant about something we all hate. Join in and throw a stone too. Please do.
First target: the Windows Environment Variable Display dialog.
Monday, March 31, 2008
The Windows Environment Variable Editor
More than a dozen version of Windows.
A complete redesign of the look & feel in Vista with a fancy Aero.
Yet, we're still stuck with a shitty Environment Variable Display like this:
(My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables):
To add to the insult, the popup is not resizable. Your only option is to double click on the entry:
Wow. Now that's better: I just have to scroll the cursor left and right like a retard trying to find C:\Cygwin\Bin or whatever I'm looking for. No wait, I can't scroll left with the mouse cause the cursor flies at a speed of around 2 megapixels per second, which makes it totally impossible for me to see anything.
I'm stuck using my keyboard holding the left key, not to mention that ctrl-left and doesn't work as it's supposed to cause it won't stop at a semi-colon delimiter.
Good thing we have tools like these to fix this mess by Microsoft, but is it just me or that's a trivially flawed dialog that longs for a redesign?
Next Target: Matlab
A complete redesign of the look & feel in Vista with a fancy Aero.
Yet, we're still stuck with a shitty Environment Variable Display like this:
(My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables):
To add to the insult, the popup is not resizable. Your only option is to double click on the entry:
Wow. Now that's better: I just have to scroll the cursor left and right like a retard trying to find C:\Cygwin\Bin or whatever I'm looking for. No wait, I can't scroll left with the mouse cause the cursor flies at a speed of around 2 megapixels per second, which makes it totally impossible for me to see anything.
I'm stuck using my keyboard holding the left key, not to mention that ctrl-left and doesn't work as it's supposed to cause it won't stop at a semi-colon delimiter.
Good thing we have tools like these to fix this mess by Microsoft, but is it just me or that's a trivially flawed dialog that longs for a redesign?
Next Target: Matlab
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