Submission details
Dotted Lines on Selection
Before Windows had all the fancy light up effects, it used a dotted line to show when something was selected. But now that we do have all the glow effects, except for you XP holdouts, the line is unnecessary and ugly.
Remove the dotted line except for special circumstances such as high-contrast.
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Discussion (12 comments)
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Voted down. Dotted line is a must.
why is it a must? its ugly as hell. eveything else in vista has glow or a teal/blueish hover...
I also think it is not a must. There should be a better design for this. Especially on round buttons like the pearls in Photo Gallery, it looks really ugly to have a square, dotted rectangle around it.
But the element is necessary for keyboard control.
They can probably now do a better job with effects in Aero, so they should look at it, but I don't think a dotted line is necessarily 'ugly', just not pretty.
It's funny because sometimes this dotted border won't disappear from desktop icons. I can see there were some work to hide it but sometimes it just remains there until the desktop looses focus.
Keyboard focus is a needed thing to be visible, but it could certainly look a lot better.
PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED! AWESOME!
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=532256
They've updated this in Windows 7. It's now a blue rectangle that looks much better than the dots.
This is not fixed in Windows 7, period.
crestind wrote on June 12, 2008, 6:08pm
I remember those lines from my first computer... Packard Bell with Windows '95 and FREE Encarta.