Post #2571010

2026-05-10 12:20 UTC

@datenwolf@chaos.social @tokyo_0@mas.to I don't doubt they did. But this IS MicroSoft that we are talking about. In their strange world user friendly is placing window buttons in such a way so that when you want to minimise/maximise a window you end up hitting the close window button instead. Frustrating for inexpert users who, not having noticed their mis-click wonder where on earth the window they were just using has just gone. You cannot make this mistake using the RISC OS layout.

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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2026-05-10 12:26

@the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to If closing a window is a destructive action, it should always be accompanied with a confirmation query. If it's a nondestructive action, then it should be made trivial to reopen the window in the state it left at. Minimizing a window is a pretty unintuitive action (even after > 30 years using UI systems my mom never properly picked up on it, and still struggles to this day with what it means); outright closing and later recreating is the more intuitive user protocol. 1/

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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 12:26

@datenwolf@chaos.social @tokyo_0@mas.to RISC OS also has another neat feature, a button that will push the window to the back of the stack. A sort of GUI Alt-Tab but much more flexible when combined with staggered overlapped windows.

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