Aero Taskforce

mikmik111 wrote on June 6, 2008, 10:19am

totally agree!

tino wrote on June 6, 2008, 10:38pm

This should get a special award! ;) I ask myself how they create such dialogs. Over a console with a bunch of text commands?

cosmin2007 wrote on June 7, 2008, 5:01pm

And how about unburying this dialog from the UI ? It takes a few steps to get there ...

I N C O N S I S T E N T W O R K , M I C R O S O F T !

thenonhacker wrote on June 8, 2008, 2:25am

hahaha LOL @ Microsoft. A fix would be nice. There are more things like this. Cramped List-Boxes in Unresizeable dialogs.

chaosblade wrote on June 8, 2008, 1:55pm

It's beyond me how something as simple escapes both the developers and the QA teams. This is a 1.5 second fix dragging and setting the anchor for that element.

unsersky wrote on June 8, 2008, 3:18pm

There may be some controls that are not visible under normal circumstances in that area. They were simply lazy to conditionally fill that space when the controls there are not visible. That may be the only reason for this odd design.

iwod wrote on June 9, 2008, 10:44am

I just wonder who are the seven people demoted this. And none of them have put out a valid reason in the comment.

igac89 wrote on June 9, 2008, 4:37pm

Let's just hope somebody actually listens to us!

brianmayclone wrote on June 9, 2008, 7:14pm

i think there are much more things that could be done with that dialog. maybe they could put all the items into some categories (like: desktop behaviour, window behaviour, ...)!

swiftb3 wrote on June 9, 2008, 9:06pm

As chaosblade said... it's a super easy fix. Obviously just managed to slip through the UI testing process.

Urbane.Tiger wrote on June 11, 2008, 9:30am

In principal all dialog boxes should be resizeable

WillHughes wrote on June 11, 2008, 3:31pm

afaik, it's because there's options there, that're hidden.

QuiescentWonder wrote on June 12, 2008, 8:18am

Even if there are hidden controls, shouldn't the listbox expand when they aren't visible?

tgordo49 wrote on June 13, 2008, 5:36pm

This problem of un-resizeable dialogs appears in several places on this site.

chaosblade wrote on June 14, 2008, 1:07pm

Just to reiterate, I've never seen any options in that space before.

DeathSeeker wrote on June 15, 2008, 11:00pm

@iwod I'm assuming those seven think long lists make things look cluttered; and expanding the box would make things look messy. Or maybe they see the space usable for 3rd party applications.

+1 for a redesign. Don't just expand the box. Give it a snazzy new coat of Control-Panelesque Explorer style paint.

OneFingerSnap wrote on August 21, 2008, 4:44pm

Make A LOT MORE dialogs resizeable!

Michael Mc wrote on September 23, 2008, 3:39pm

I've done a bit of digging, seems that this dialogue was expanded with Windows XP SP2 for Data Execution Protection. I really don't think there were controls there at all.

Check this out: http://i36.tinypic.com/9zsohv.png

BrandonLive wrote on October 29, 2008, 10:44pm

Fixed in Windows 7.

nitrous9200 wrote on November 3, 2008, 1:19am

Fixed, and it's amazing that they actually look at this site - it'll make Windows much better in the future.

anthonettex wrote on November 10, 2008, 11:45pm

MS has their own feedback forum thingy but unfortunately it is left closed out for the general public. which is probably a good thing.

jobykent wrote on February 2, 2009, 3:39am

This is now fixed in Windows 7... The scroll bar goes all the way down now