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by Mysterious Stranger 08/20/2009, 10:09pm PDT

motherfuckerfoodeater wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

3) If you put the status bar/application bar/whatever on the left or right instead of on the bottom, windows STILL APPEAR BEHIND IT. 11+ years and nobody at Microsoft has figured out how to tell where the usable desktop area is. Can't be done! Cannot fucking be done. Clearly.

>:[

This is one of those things that makes me wish I could work with stone tablets instead of computers. It's so obvious, and nobody can get it right. Apple lets you put your dock anywhere, but there's always a menu bar on the top of the screen. I guess you can sort of say that the lack of menubars on individual windows makes up for it, but it still makes me cranky. In terms of free OSes, Gnome looks like shit when you put a panel on the left or right, but the worst is KDE which could totally do this in version three but then decided to break that functionality for the current release. Way to show 'em how it's done, you fucking Krauts.

See also: radio buttons that look like checkboxes and vice versa, and my favorite, a grayed-out area that is only active when you choose a certain option, but when that option is not selected it still matters what's in that grayed out area. WOO! High five development team! (This beauty was on a softphone app at work.)

In other news, I broke Windows 7. Or rather, I perma-broke Media Player. So: reload. I guess those steps don't work for the 64 bit version, and my attempted fixes were as bad as the problem. In other other news, don't edit the registry when you're angry. Not that I did that just now, just something I've learned. *wise old man wink* :(