Re:Settings are not a design failure
by chrismorgan on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:33AM
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What? Windows has nothing in the slightest bit like macOS’s searchable menus. I suspect you may be describing the Settings app which lets you search by name, synonyms or description, and takes you to the appropriate place, but that’s a far cry from a searchable menus across all apps, where the searching also shows you the path to that menu item.
Re:Settings are not a design failure
by inglor_cz on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:17AM
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Wow, I didn't realize that macOS searched menus across all apps. TIL!
It's really nice: https://imgur.com/a/ZKSSiQc you can click the help entry and it'll act like the real menu too.
It's part of the standard, default menus on almost literally everything. There are ways to hide it if you're determined to be an asshole app (Cisco AnyConnect does this for instance, though there are so few menu items that it's not too horrible), but it's exceedingly rare because you have to explicitly remove it to have that happen. Far, far below 1%, it's mostly just awful corpware.
Re:Settings are not a design failure
by MonaroVXR on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:00PM
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Nothing wrong with the Dutch one, when I use the English version of Windows. If I recall correctly.
A Dutch Windows 10 install won't find "control panel", but it will find "configuratiescherm". It won't find "credential manager", it will find "referentiebeheer". At least it was like this when I used windows ~2 years ago. Definitely a pain point.
Which is a problem, because the vast majority of StackOverflow-like Q&As are in English and mention the necessary setting in English, of course.
And you cannot rely on your translational abilities, because many of the translations in Windows are stilted.