Windows Frustration
How would you find the tasks not shown on the bar?
Because I certainly can’t get it right. I click the wrong arrow every time. You might say that “up” goes to the top of the pile, with recent tasks on top. You might also say that “up” goes to the top of the page, with the first tasks started at the beginning. To confuse one further, clicking an arrow will cause the tasks to shift either left or the right. Is it natural to associate up and down with left and right?
November 29th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
I can sympathize — I have a similar problem with Yahoo Web Mail’s “next and “previous” message links. I have the messages sorted so that the newest one is at the top, so it’s hard to get used to “previous” meaning “newer” and “next” meaning “older”.
As far as the Windows taskbar goes, I am in the habit of expanding it to allow 2 rows of icons, which usually lets me get at least 30 entries in there before the scrollbar shows up.
December 3rd, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Similar to Dean, I always end up having two rows…only it’s one for the quick launch and one for the windows bars.
And besides, Eric, you of all people should know that the terms “natural” and “windows” don’t go together.