Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface
Put the Quick-launch Ctrl+Q bar into office and I'll be happy. I'm not an office power-user but trying to figure out where the Word-Wrap option is in Outlook beat me the other day and I resorted to copy-paste into Notepad++ (P.S. If anyone knows WHERE this option is I'd appreciate a heads-up). If I could just go Ctrl+Q,Word Wrap and have the program understand what the heck I mean that would make my life much much easier. In fact, do away with shortcut keys for most things. A reasonable predictive text algorithm and a drop-down is all the UI I need (apparent after 2 years with Launchy). Allow the app to look at the keys I use most often and suggest shortcut chords on the 20th invocation of a command or something. If I'm logging into Windows 8 with my Live ID (or whatever it's called now that the Live brand is going away) store it in my SkyDrive (if *that* name is sticking around) and I'll have a truly portable productivity experience. http://codermike.com On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: David Connors wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.aumailto: il.tho...@iinet.net.au** wrote: At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have anything to do with its adoption? I couldn't agree more. Metro is shite and should be dropped into a bin along with The Ribbon. The fact they are farting around with colour selection while you still have to run VS.NET http://VS.NET as administrator for some types of development is insane. I actually like the Ribbon. Over the past 3 years I've done some heavy MS Office development with tight application integration and find that the Ribbon lets me make useful and simple interfaces easily. MS certainly could have done some better work when placing some of the functionality when they moved to the ribbon, but overall I think it's actually quite decent. Mostly I can live with Office. Just quit re-arranging it. P.S. Friday Flamewar already? :P Never too soon to start. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface
Thank goodness I have a high rez monitor. Your post was readable on one line. Just. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Put the Quick-launch Ctrl+Q bar into office and I'll be happy. I'm not an office power-user but trying to figure out where the Word-Wrap option is in Outlook beat me the other day and I resorted to copy-paste into Notepad++ (P.S. If anyone knows WHERE this option is I'd appreciate a heads-up). If I could just go Ctrl+Q,Word Wrap and have the program understand what the heck I mean that would make my life much much easier. In fact, do away with shortcut keys for most things. A reasonable predictive text algorithm and a drop-down is all the UI I need (apparent after 2 years with Launchy). Allow the app to look at the keys I use most often and suggest shortcut chords on the 20th invocation of a command or something. If I'm logging into Windows 8 with my Live ID (or whatever it's called now that the Live brand is going away) store it in my SkyDrive (if *that* name is sticking around) and I'll have a truly portable productivity experience. http://codermike.com On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: David Connors wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.aumailto: il.tho...@iinet.net.au** wrote: At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have anything to do with its adoption? I couldn't agree more. Metro is shite and should be dropped into a bin along with The Ribbon. The fact they are farting around with colour selection while you still have to run VS.NET http://VS.NET as administrator for some types of development is insane. I actually like the Ribbon. Over the past 3 years I've done some heavy MS Office development with tight application integration and find that the Ribbon lets me make useful and simple interfaces easily. MS certainly could have done some better work when placing some of the functionality when they moved to the ribbon, but overall I think it's actually quite decent. Mostly I can live with Office. Just quit re-arranging it. P.S. Friday Flamewar already? :P Never too soon to start. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
RE: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface
Check out Find Commands - it adds a tab to the ribbon where you can do exactly that http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-ribbon-find-commands-FX101851541.aspx Cheers Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 * Mob +61 (416) 134 993 * Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 * http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Michael Minutillo Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012 4:29 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface Put the Quick-launch Ctrl+Q bar into office and I'll be happy. I'm not an office power-user but trying to figure out where the Word-Wrap option is in Outlook beat me the other day and I resorted to copy-paste into Notepad++ (P.S. If anyone knows WHERE this option is I'd appreciate a heads-up). If I could just go Ctrl+Q,Word Wrap and have the program understand what the heck I mean that would make my life much much easier. In fact, do away with shortcut keys for most things. A reasonable predictive text algorithm and a drop-down is all the UI I need (apparent after 2 years with Launchy). Allow the app to look at the keys I use most often and suggest shortcut chords on the 20th invocation of a command or something. If I'm logging into Windows 8 with my Live ID (or whatever it's called now that the Live brand is going away) store it in my SkyDrive (if *that* name is sticking around) and I'll have a truly portable productivity experience. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.commailto:meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.aumailto:l...@datarev.com.au wrote: David Connors wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.aumailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.au mailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.aumailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have anything to do with its adoption? I couldn't agree more. Metro is shite and should be dropped into a bin along with The Ribbon. The fact they are farting around with colour selection while you still have to run VS.NEThttp://VS.NET http://VS.NET as administrator for some types of development is insane. I actually like the Ribbon. Over the past 3 years I've done some heavy MS Office development with tight application integration and find that the Ribbon lets me make useful and simple interfaces easily. MS certainly could have done some better work when placing some of the functionality when they moved to the ribbon, but overall I think it's actually quite decent. Mostly I can live with Office. Just quit re-arranging it. P.S. Friday Flamewar already? :P Never too soon to start. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface
I like the look of the RC. Will be interested in using it a bit. On 09/05/2012, at 11:07 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Thoughts? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:59 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface
Would they be leaving the current scheme as a choice for release? So people can choose to have more color or not, rather than everybody having it one way or other. Maybe instead of soft gray background we be able to choose soft green/ blue etc Regards Arjang On 9 May 2012 10:59, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: ** ** ** ** ** ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia ** **
