I had reason to glance down at my task bar last night - normally I'm an alt-tab man, but sometimes that little strip of app names is useful. But not this time, because I was running a bundle of applications while testing the X6 and my task bar had just one word. Nokia. Lots of apps on display, with just some tiny icons to attempt to guide me to my goal. Anyone want to fix this rather poor bit of UI in the next releases?
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With windows 7, the text from the task bar is replaced by just images, so I wouldn't think this would be an issue anymore.
Not so much on my desktop. However, on my desk top....
@ Unregistered:
ONLY if a user's settings is "Always Combine, Never show"
The sensible way to set things in Windows 7 for taskbar properties is actually "Combine when Taskbar is full".
Which is what most use, even though it's NOT the default, and in so doing, you get your text labels back.
Wow! That's pretty petty Ewan! You can hardly call out Nokia because you're not happy with their software naming convention!
If you have loads of apps open in your task bar it doesn't matter what each app is called, at some stage you'll barely be able to see the text if you have 10 or 20 going.
In Windows you should be able to drag the task bar up to make more room to display each app more clearly or press Alt+Tab to display your multitasking window, then you can tab through all your open apps icons with full text displayed so there's no confusion in getting to what you want to access... is that any good/helpful?
Best,
J-P
@ UKJeeper...
Classic stuff - what model are they, and where do you work...?
shadamehr wrote:@ UKJeeper...Classic stuff - what model are they, and where do you work...?
😃 The wall is made of unopened E71's, with TP2's and an E71 on the desk, and my i8910 in front. The picture was taken with another E71. Wish i'd taken the picture the next day, i could have included the HD2's.
And yes, they're all locked up when i leave my desk! 😉
Doh! Apologies Ewan - I see you mentioned Alt-Tab already and I foolishly tried to point it out as a 'helpful' alternative...sorry.
J-P
Wierd article for a wierd problem. Some of my thoughts for that:
a) with Ovi Suite, the number of applications (sync, photos, share, music player, calender, maps, software update) would be significantly reduced. I know ovi suite is not ideal, yet, but you are complaining at a problem that is already being fixed
b) as mentioned, win7 now only uses icons, and the icons were enough for me to distinguish the applications in your picture easily
c) unlike you, i rather find it annoying that nokia renames its own applications so often (how many iterations did we have for nokia messasing or noka/ovi maps?) and would wish that they stick to one naming sheme and not change them with every release.
@shadamehr
Well you learn something new every day, i didn't even realise you could do that, I do like the combine function with no labels though to be fair, so i suppose for me its not a problem 😉
The point is not that all these apps are around
I think it is the point. Why shouldn't there be ONE single app that controls all data to and from the phone? Why several separate ones?
Hi, I think this is too much to ask. Do not get me wrong, Mr. Ewan. Hehe. I am a fan of your writing style. I think this can be fixed by user wise-yet-basic strategy. In Philippines, we termed it as "Diskarte". Hehe. Say widen the thickness of taskbar. I normally do that multiple window setup because I became illed when I only have 2 windows running. I suggest, it's comfortable to thicken up the taskbar so you do not have to pity those windows & text descriptions that cannot breathe out in congestion on the jampacked taskbar. And, I guess the icons are of much help since humans do normally have better "visual memory" than textual. This become better when you Alt-Tab since the icons get bigger.
~Marvin from Philippines
Here's todays picture....
Notice anything different?..... 😎