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Most recent submissions by user "jamesrising"

Registered since: June 12, 2008

32 +34/-2 votes

Gap between hardware icons after deleting an icon in the Media Sharing dialog

Submitted by jamesrising on August 20, 2008 to Aesthetics, Bug, Icons

When deleting hardware icons from the Media Sharing dialog, a gap is left between remaining hardware icons that isn't removed until the dialog is closed.

Have any icon(s) to the right of the deleted hardware's icon slide down to the next nearest icon.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(4 comments)

46 +50/-4 votes

Refresh icon in Feeds in IE7 needs to be centered

Submitted by jamesrising on June 30, 2008 to Aesthetics, Icons

The refresh icon for a feed in IE7 needs to be centered to fit inside the button.

Center the icon within the button.

Low

Low

Not fixed

(3 comments)

-28 +7/-35 votes

IE's Yellow Warning Bar should be relocated

Submitted by jamesrising on June 24, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

IE's yellow warning bar will frequently "pop up" below the tabs moments after a page has loaded and the webpage is shifted down the screen, reducing viewing area as well. This is annoying, especially when you've already started to (more...)

Have the warning bar pop up at the bottom of the browser so that the webpage is not shifted downward and instead only the viewing area is reduced.

High

Low

Not fixed

(13 comments)

40 +56/-16 votes

Start orb context menu [UPDATED]

Submitted by jamesrising on June 23, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

When one right clicks the "Start orb," the following items appear in the context menu if the default folder view for the "Start Menu" folder is set to "Music details":

Open
Explore
Add to Windows (more...)

First, "Open" and "Explore" open the same window. If the user always has the folders column showing, both options open the window in the same way w/ the folders column showing. Regardless, one option should be removed - it's (more...)

Low

Low

Not fixed

(19 comments)

99 +107/-8 votes

Old icon animation - searching flashlight

Submitted by jamesrising on June 17, 2008 to Aesthetics, Icons, Legacy

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

(13 comments)

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