Most popular submissions in 'Aesthetics' of all time
.WMF File Icon is Ancient
The icon for a .wmf file is horribly outdated.
Fix it. Adding the basic picture icon or even a preview would be an improvement.
Low
Low
Not fixed
MHTML files
The icon for MHTML files does not exist in Vista icon format; and the largest size is 32×32.
Update icon sizes.
Low
Low
Fixed
UAC overlay icons aren't correctly blended.
The icons are surrounded by a white jagged edge, instead of being blended neatly. It is more apparent when the icons are larger.
Note: I don't normally have my icons that large, it's just for demonstration purposes.
Blend the icons correctly.
Low
Low
Fixed
Inconsistent search placement, icons, size, and text.
I'll confine this to just 10 programs and a dozen problems for now.
01.) There are three different magnifying glass icons, a blue, a grey and a white one.
02.) There are two different hover effects for the magnifying glass, (more...)
A single font size and color.
Single background.
One icon and hover style.
A standard default size.
Near universal top-right/second "bar" (Explorer) placement.
High
Low
Not fixed
Task Manager's "End program" dialog is vintage
The "This program is not responding" dialog (the one that show when an application is not responding and you try to kill it through the Task Manager) uses an old design:
- The font is not Segoe UI.
- The buttons use Windows (more...)
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Old icon animation - searching flashlight
The decade-old searching flashlight animation in Windows is STILL present.
I'll try to find a screenshot of it as I've seen it in Vista.
Update icon
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Windows Key + H to Hide The Currently Visible Application
Windows + D shows the desktop.
Windows + M minimizes all apps.
But there's no option to minimize or hide the current app. There should be something that simply gets your app out of your way quickly without much thought.
Windows + H to hide/minimize the current app.
Unlike Mac's standard Cmd + H, using the windows key keeps the OS-function from interfering with program-specific shortcuts.
Also, might be nice to have an optional setting (more...)
Medium
High
Not fixed
IE7 Import/Export Wizard Violates Top 10 Vista UI Rules
The rules Micorosft lays out are clear - 97 wizards are no longer to be used -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511327.aspx#wizards
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Replace the wizard with a new Areo style wizard.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Taskbar over some tooltips and menus (yet!)
The taskbar sometimes overlaps menus and tooltips, in XP happens a lot. In Vista they appear to put some "monitoring" code to fix this situation but occasionally you will experience it again
Low
High
Not fixed
Repair Taskbar Foldout Menu in fixed mode
In XP and previous versions, it was no problem to have a a nice Foldout Menu in taskbar fixed mode - now it is impossible because a little bit of the menu contents can be seen. That doesn't look nice!
However it's nice that Windows had (more...)
Low
Medium
Not fixed
Character Map
“Advance View” on top of it’s own Status bar. Scrollbar missing style.
Update style
Medium
Low
Fixed
Links duplicated and not in order in the "Save as" window
By default, "computer" is not present in the links folder, but it's present in the save as window.
If we add it so it can be found in explorer, then it will be duplicated in the save as window.
Also, the links in the Save (more...)
Either of these will work
1) check for duplicates and resort them
2) use only those in the links folder as in explorer
Medium
Low
Not fixed
New Disk Volume wizard
New volume wizard is not a Windows Aero wizard, though it does have a more Vista-like image at the left.
Implement an Aero-standard wizard.
Low
Low
Not fixed
Task Manager Performance and Networking tabs appearance
The tabs for Performance and Networking under the TaskManager still use NT 4.0 styles for rendering (e.g. dithered fills for CPU Usage and Memory).
Update the application to take advantage of Vista's UI.
Medium
Low
Not fixed
Turning off "Remember Each Folders View Settings" doesnt work at all!
There is a great option in Windows Explorer that you can turn off called "Remember Each Folder's View Settings". But turning it off does nothing.
The great thing about turning this feature off is that you can work in explorer (more...)
Fix it
Medium
Medium
Not fixed