Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8

Re:Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8 by masnick on Monday August 29, 2011 @01:09PM (#2937904)

I don't like the ribbon because it's hard to find things in it. Same reason I don't like menus. Same reason I don't like Apple's ambiguous menu bar buttons.

The only solution I've found to this is the Help function on recent versions of OS X. Press cmd-shift-/ and you can search for any item hidden in a menu.

If Microsoft added a feature like this, the ribbon wouldn't matter -- I could just turn it off and use keyboard shortcuts/search for everything.

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Re:Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8 by chappi42 on Monday August 29, 2011 @05:26PM (#2939096)

>If Microsoft added a feature like this... They have: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/Pages/defa... (not that I would use it).

>use keyboard shortcuts/search for everything... But the quick access toolbar matters imho. Being able to e.g. add 'show/hide hidden' files is great and beats thousandthreehundred times the castrated Finder (which forces me to go to the terminal (and not even provides a context menu for this - lame)).

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Re:Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8 by bane on Monday August 29, 2011 @03:13PM (#2938411)

If Microsoft added a feature like this, the ribbon wouldn't matter -- I could just turn it off and use keyboard shortcuts/search for everything.

I have to agree to some point. This fails the discoverability principle, but it an awesome interface for power users who know what they are looking for a priori.

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