Other GUI oddities page 3
I really need to think of something to write here don’t I? ;)
Ah, our refined corporate workflow. Two stages of the process have to be skipped as they’re now done by an employee down in Southampton, so we just have to hit enter a whole load of times to skip all the error messages. Here, I held enter instead, and it choked the Windows XP taskbar animation to death and left a gap in the taskbar:
In the next image, a huge swathe of files on my hard drives have suddenly lost their icons. These will be icons assigned to the files dynamically by the kernel and it’s forgotten what it is supposed to be using:
It is definitely the kernel and not the Finder as the same problem shows up in A-Dock:
Next up, a classic, from Jeff Heesen. Windows 98 not redrawing the screen when you move the Close Program window. How incredibly primitive compared to Windows 2000…
Hardened Windows users will be familiar with this flaw but the rest of the world can just laugh cruelly. And people still use Windows 98. Why, oh why?
The following is a little bit strange. 1Soft Corporation’s Above & Beyond Notebook – a Win16 application – uses a window to display its list of topics:
I am not sure whether it’s an embedded or movable window (although you cannot drag it) – but when run under WOW, the title bar takes on a modern look, even sporting a close box.
Finally, here is Adobe Acrobat Reader:
Notice anything strange? Like, how all the writing is green? I use green writing in Windows to offset the black window background in this account, but I do not know why it is also being used for a PDF document, when the background is still white. The icons look a little iffy to me too. The document text does print in black, however.