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Mobile plans?

Posted Mar 28, 2013 12:09 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
In reply to: Mobile plans? by ibukanov
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 released

Counter argument is also easy to make: Microsoft Office 2007+ ribbon interface. Loads and loads of complains, but love at the same time.


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Mobile plans?

Posted Mar 28, 2013 17:05 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Office 2007 caused lots of regressions in the UI workflow of lots of people. Arguably, it caused these regressions for good reasons but still.

Win95 did not cause any significant regressions so people were OK with it.

Mobile plans?

Posted Mar 28, 2013 21:42 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

> Win95 did not cause any significant regressions so people were OK with it.

The only one that I recall was putting the 'close window' icon on the far right side of the title bar. I inadvertently closed a lot of windows before I got used to that. Eventually it seemed natural.

On the other hand, I have never gotten used to Apple's document-centric user interface, despite having used OS X at work for years now. So it seems that not all user interface indiscretions are healed by time.

Mobile plans?

Posted Mar 28, 2013 21:45 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

They've left the windows menu on the left side of the titlebar, though. So it's not a regression per se, but a somewhat confusing new functionality.

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