Gregory's Servercan a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out
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 @JoshuaACNewman @lynnesbian I think this is pretty standard industry practice: a company has a highly requested feature and determine that it's less work to add buttons for the feature in multiple places and link them together in an infinite redirect loop... They know most interested stakeholders will lose interest after the first 3 redirects, very few will retain focus long enough to actually complain. Then their share prices go up @nicr9 @JoshuaACNewman @lynnesbian IOW another type of clickbait .... @ovrim @JoshuaACNewman @lynnesbian does your computer have trouble with mice? What you need is Click Repellent! @lynnesbian I wonder if this is supposed to work like electron, but they just borked it @lynnesbian this is magnificent work by someone, or perhaps a whole team was needed to achieve such greatness  @botvolution @lynnesbian as a work of satire it's certainty making a bold, biting statement about the state of the industry @lynnesbian Because they're lazy. No, really. In the Settings window for Windows 10, in the Taskbar tab, there's a link entitled "Changing taskbar color", under the Help from the web section in the upper right corner. That link goes to the following URL: https://www.bing.com/search?q=change%20windows%2010%20taskbar%20color%20site:microsoft.com&form=B00032&ocid=SettingsHAQ-BingIA&mkt=en-US Seriously, all they did it would appear is increment the version.   @lynnesbian iirc they don’t let you use some accent colors on the taskbar and windows because it makes the text unreadable @UberKitten @lynnesbian  @lynnesbian haha oh nooooo we've never worked for Microsoft but it kind of sounds like five different teams each decided to "solve" the problem by making it someone else's   @lynnesbian I seem to remember something about #Microsoft claiming to have #AI write a lot of their code...? 🤔 @lynnesbian and if they thought to add the entry to search for it on bing, why not replace the bing click with the actual colour changer instead  @lynnesbian It searches with the English (UK) text probably because that is the correct spelling on your Windows PC but then there isn't a help page found for it - so, it offers to show you the English (US) page instead. Yes, not great! 🙂  @lynnesbian UI designer here, it's a mix of corporate greed (the Bing/Edge nonsense) and just bad UX design (you apparently have to switch the theme to "Dark" or "Custom" - if you select Custom you then have to switch "Windows mode" to dark first 💀 - for that toggle to get enabled from what I've seen, never used Windows 11 though) |
i wanted to see what happened when you clicked the initial "changing taskbar colour" link without an internet connection, but it just disappears