Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Sun Nov 25 10:23:52 CST 2012
Hi Gustav -- Thank you for the tip with Win8 display split. No problem with our disagreement on what caused Win8 to look as it's now. In fact all the Win8 design principles and "sub-principles" (http://www.twipemobile.com/windows8-metro-5-style-design-principles/) are perfectly inline with my own software UI design principles and experience except "content before chrome" And "content before chrome" for me is not equivalent to "do more with less" and "chrome" are not only bright colors (that Win8 bright colors are OK) but also beautiful graphical design with small masterpiece graphical work details as one can find in "Avalon glass look"... Let's see how Win8 will evolve with years... And I'm back to my Win8-64bit-driven notebook to get it "fully-armored" with VS2012, MS SQL 2012, MS Office 2013, SharePoint 2012 etc., end of the next week hopefully to convert all existing projects and to start learning Win7.5/8 phone and WinRT development... Thank you. -- Shamil Sun 25 Nov 2012 09:55:52 от "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>: > > > > >Hi Shamil > > Yes: > - you open one or more apps > - switch to any of these > - move the mouse to the top-left corner. A Desktop miniature is shown > - right-click on the miniature > - choose from the pop-up menu: Pin to left (or similar, it's localized) > > Now the running Windows desktop apps are vertically listed to the left and the RT app at the right. > If you double-click the divider bar, it moves to the right maximizing the desktop app with only the right vertical band of the RT app visible. > Pull the divider bar to the right or left screen edge to exit the mixed display mode. > > Based on what I've read and watched and my meeting with some of the Metro design people at a meeting here some months ago, I for once think you are wrong. > > I'm convinced that heavy research following the "glass look" Avalon interface of Vista and Win7 and how to design a reinvented Windows Phone interface, the bright Metro team came to the conclusion that the aera of skeuomorphs in computer interface starting with the NeXT computer, OS/2 and Windows 3.0 and evolved into the absurd with the iCalendar and the Bookshelf as prime examples, has come to an end. It has to stop, if for nothing else because children and young people will not understand it. On the other side, graphical designers have for decades known how to communicate fast and efficiently with people at any level. > > Given the very conservative computer users and the extremely conservative corporate users, this is a brave and aggressive decision done by Microsoft. This is not just a smart move to be different. The five design principles just seem so right and up-to-date that you may wonder why they haven't been pulled forward before. > > Of course, your two arguments are not false, they are just spin-offs. > > And yes, I do remember the surface table. It looks funny today but can be seen as one of the steps taken to get where we are today. > > /gustav > >