Hi Dark, While I take your point I think your biggest problem comes down to unfamiliarity and lack of experience with the OS rather than the user interface itself being bad. Remember you only used Windows 7 for a very short amount of time and you have not had the time or experience to learn how to do things differently from XP which causes frustrations and a dislike of the new user interface.
For example, you said it gets on your wick trying to find the Shutdown Button. It is not hard to find at all. Just do control+escape, hit the tab key three times, and you will land on the Shutdown Button each and every time. Not complicated at all, but I figure you probably sat down to that Windows 7 machine and tried to navigate the Start Menu the same way as the XP Start Menu. Obviously, that won't work and you need to relearn how to navigate the Windows 7 Start Menu because it is arranged totally different. My point being is you hate the new interface in large part because you don't know it. It is unfamiliar to you. You have to forget about the things you know and have someone teach you new shortcuts and ways to handle the interface, and for you, at least, there is no benefit in doing it other than for the sake of upgrading. That's fair, but do recognize your dislike has less to do with the interface being bad but more to do with your lack of experience and familiarity with it. I think if you had as much experience with Windows 7 as XP you would probably feel differently about the interface. Cheers! On 12/17/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > Well that is certainly true, when anything is renamed and redesigned people > > are going to have to spend more time relearning it, however I do think > blindness plays a factor just from my experience of when i could do a task > visually as opposed to when i just had to rely on a screen reader. > > To take one example, one thing that got on my whick about the windows 7 > start menue was the fact of it's tree view rather than it being a list. This > > meant I had to spend considderable time finding basic options such as > shutdown etc (I suspect classic shell fixes this to an extent). > > To take one example, when discussing smugglers the upgrade from smugglers 4 > > to smugglers 5, one question which came up frequently was where the boarding > > skill was, since it's tree position has changed in the interface of the two > > games since the trees and the way the skills are distributed among the > professions have changed./ > > Now, S5 actually has a vastly superior and easier to navigate tree than s4, > > and there have been several handy access fixes such as it now showing what > previous skills are required for later ones when you bring up an info > window, thus making it no longer necessary to physically learn the tree view > > as you had to in s4. > > For a sighted user however, the relocation of this skill wasn't an issue. > They could just look at the tree and bang, there it was, indeed the very > concept of tree diagrams, though not inherently a difficult matter is a very > > visual one to grasp in it's entirety without being able to overview the hole > > tree, (one reason for the fix of showing skill requirements which I > suggested for the game). > > With windows 8 and 8.1, well I'll have to see if I can find a system running > > it I could try at some point, and I do in fairness see advantages to things > > like weather and basic news alerts on the desktop, (I like having it on my > Iphone). > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
