• @[email protected]
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    58 months ago

    What do you mean by the taskbar being unusable? I used it on my windows 11 laptop way before october 2023.

    • @[email protected]
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      138 months ago

      Combined icons make the computer unusable for who has multiple windows open from the same application.

      For example if you constantly have to switch between 5 excel files you can’t directly click on which you need

      It’s the reason I can’t stand MacOS at all

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        I mean, not defending Win11 here, it has lots of other issues, but I’d just put each excel sheet on a different virtual desktop and switch with the keyboard. Always felt that clicking was a bit inefficient anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        08 months ago

        Sure, that’s not ideal, but it’s far from unusable. I’ve used the combined icons since windows 10 wqs released and never had any issues. It works fine for me.

      • @[email protected]
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        08 months ago

        Well, you can’t directly click, but all you need to do is hover for half a second, then click the window you want (which open up above). It’s a non-issue.

        • @[email protected]
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          68 months ago

          Is the order always the same? But still, it’s quite human to be disturbed by it. A website that loads longer than 200ms is perceived as slow. 500ms on a desktop action is considered slow, so it is an issue for some. Can’t just dismiss it because for you it’s fine. Not everybody’s you.

          Anti Commercial-AI license

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            I mean I didn’t check how long it actually takes, it’s not 500ms.

            It opens quick, but I can’t find the default value (you can change the behavior via registry), but it’s definitely less than half a second. Especially when you’re already hovering down there it appears near instant for me.

            And let’s be honest: The only reason why multiple icons worked back in the day was because the name of the open workbook was next to it. So you had “(Excel) My Workbook 123.xlsx” in your taskbar. Which ended up as a mess when you had several programs open. Now you have one Excel icon, you hover over it and you see all your open workbooks as a preview so you select the one you want. It’s definitely cleaner.

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            08 months ago

            It keeps the order in which it was open, it’s not 500ms, and we can certainly dismiss someone that says something is unusable when it is in fact usable just not in the way they like.

    • @Poem_for_your_sprog
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      98 months ago

      You still can’t make it narrow or move it to the sides of the screen either. It sucks at work at 1080p because the taskbar takes up half the screen it’s so massive.