Am 23.09.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Dimitar Zhekov:
- Not designed to be used by non-administrator. Fixable by writing
some utility programs. - A zoo of user interfaces. Blood-red, poison-green or Turkish-blue for main backgrounds...
- Crappy 3rd
party drivers, even from respected companies.
- 80% of the programs
run properly in "96 DPI" :) only. Of the ones that "support" high DPI, half would better not, including FF and Opera. Somewhat fixable with 7even.
Well.. These are my most important issues inside Windows world for me when really using it (beside the fact the closed source software wrong by default is, but this is not the matter of discussion). I've got issues with my eyes which forces me to use bigger font, higher contrast etc. Unfortunately a huge number of standard software on Windows seems to hard code their color schemas and fonts or hide them inside some cryptic properties menu (which I only can access with pain without changing the properties ...). With Windows 7 they changed a lot on UI configuration compaired to XP (not all of them are bad) and some of them do really a bad job. E.g. the thing that only FullHD seems be a valid option on viewing things -- every other screen seeting is just not working on my boxes. This is in combination with some of the vendors are not using Windows UI API (which is avaialble and from what I have seen is quiet ok in terms of acessibility) but doing there own stuff are doing a real bad job on me. So in private I'm not using Windows also because of such things, but at company my boss needs to pay the extra time I spent on this crap.
At the end just to name some peases of software wich I recognized as quiet bad during last years:
- Nearly everything from SAP starting with R/3 up to dbisql and other Sybase originated tools incl PowerBuilder and PowerDesigner - Aris - Eclipse - AFPS (some ERP tool) - VMWare Websphere (The Flash ESX admin client -- not yet tried the HTML5 version) - Cisco Admin console - ...
These tools might be powerful on there main function but they really suck if you are hadicapped. At Linux desktops I don't have such issue at least as long as vendors are using the API. So I can't really blame Microsoft for most the these things, but I've got the experince, if it comes to Windows/Java-World, Worls just sucks for people that are handicapped with their eys.
Just my rant against vendors not using nativ API and a closed software world which seems to support this behavior.
Cheers, Frank