Re:Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8
by wtallis on Monday August 29, 2011 @03:27PM
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But how often do you really need to do that? For me, it's once every few months. It's okay for rarely-needed features to be less accessible or a bit harder to use. I understand that getting at the textual path of an object is generally a bit easier in Windows Explorer than in the Finder, but I don't know of any common workflow in OS X that requires it, so I don't understand why it's getting decried as a notable problem with the Finder.
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Re:Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8
by vacri on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @03:28AM
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I find it strange that this didactic "You don't need that feature" seems to be considered a valid argument in the OSX camp.
Re:Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8
by wtallis on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @12:21AM
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The feature does exist, it just isn't as accessible as some people would prefer. There's an opportunity cost to almost any UI change, so it is perfectly valid to ask whether a feature is useful, important, and popular enough to justify making it easier to use at the expense of making something else harder to use.