Re:Microsoft announces Windows 11
by EForEndeavour on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:58PM
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Thinking though how I use UIs, I like having one sidebar per screen edge because:
- I can spatially separate OS-level and program-level controls instead of visually/mentally hunting around in the same general area of the screen
- The effective clickable surface area of a button next to a screen edge is effectively infinite. For example, you can "crash" the mouse pointer downward onto a minimized window such that the bottom edge stops your mouse pointer from overshooting, and clicking will maximize that window. If you stacked OS-level and program-level control bars onto the same edge of a screen, one of them loses this UI perk
That's incredibly disappointing! Having the task bar at the top of the screen makes a lot more sense for me. Application bars (tabs, urls, etc. in browsers) are at the top, so why place the task bar as far away from that as possible? It just doesn't make sense imo.