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Mar. 2nd, 2005 01:25 pmFor a year or two mittel has had only one pane of her Win XP task manager visible - and it's not even a pane, it's become the whole dialog. No menus, no way to change it. Can only see CPU usage, can never see tasks. I google periodically, can't find the problem.
Today, successful google:
Double-click the gray area of the dialog and suddenly all the hidden panes and menus and things reappear!
What bizarre quasi-human came up with this user interface, and why was it ever approved and implemented? (Whether or not it has any utility is another matter.)
And I thought it was bad when our website added a "click and then press enter" flash interface for viewing images.
Now I want to open every XP dialog and double and triple click, and find the magic one that lets me order mexican food online instead of just pizza.
Today, successful google:
Double-click the gray area of the dialog and suddenly all the hidden panes and menus and things reappear!
What bizarre quasi-human came up with this user interface, and why was it ever approved and implemented? (Whether or not it has any utility is another matter.)
And I thought it was bad when our website added a "click and then press enter" flash interface for viewing images.
Now I want to open every XP dialog and double and triple click, and find the magic one that lets me order mexican food online instead of just pizza.