Who needs interface consistency?
Posted on October 27, 2005
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Despite how much I bash Windows I actually try hard not to (easy target and all that) but sometimes Microsoft makes it impossible to resist, literally handing me a reason to bash on a silver, badly-designed platter.
Today’s Windows WTF? Remote Desktop from Microsoft. My complaint: right clicking on items in the left-hand tree produces two different contextual menus with absolutely no practical indication which context you’re in. Its bad enough that there’s two menus available from the same item but all the worse since there’s no indicator which you’ll get until you click.
Menu one:
- New Window from Here
- Delete
- Properties
- Help
Menu two:
- Connect
- Disconnect
- View…
- New Window from Here
- New Taskpad View…
- Delete
- Properties
- Help
However I think I’ve figured out the context in which each appears: Menu 2 always shows up if you’re already connected to the server you’re clicking on and viewing it at the time. Menu 1 shows up if you’re either not connected to the server you’re clicking or, if you are already connected to it, it’s not the one you’re looking at (”these are not the servers you’re looking at”… waves hand).
Obviously.
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