Archive for July, 2006
New icons on Windows’ desktop
Posted in usability on July 3rd, 2006 by romanI am getting really frenzy with the way how Windows organize the icons on their (but MINE!) desktop. Everytime I save some file on my desktop I have big problems with finding it. My desktop’s icons are organized so that applications are on the left, and I put the data on the right, both links, shortcuts to datafolders and actual files.
Now, when I save something new on the desktop, Windows will put icon at an arbitrary (probably the next ‘free’ slot) location. I also observed it tends to be the left-top-free-first-organize algorithm. I call this very poor usability.
But I want my data-files icons to appear on my right-hand side, always. How to do it, folks?
