Windows User Interface Design: Accidental Hide Windows
Taskbar Show Desktop Button, All Windows Hidden by Accident
In Windows 10, there is vertical strip button at the end of taskbar, called Show Desktop Button. On a tablet Microsoft Surface Pro 4, 2015, when holding the tablet, your right-hand palm often touches it by accident (especially if you are lying in bed.), then all windows disappears.
Added insult is, there's a option to disable something about it in the Settings, but it doesn't disable the click, it disables hover. Confusingly named peek. There is no way to disable the click or remove that show desktop strip.
Show desktop idiocy with Win+d key shortcut
There is this show desktop key shortcut faak. Press ❖ Window+d does it. It hides (minimize) all windows. Press it again to toggle back but it must be done immediately else nothing happens.
That means, if you accidentally pressed ❖ Window+d, and hit other key or click, every window is disappears, and there are no easy way to unhide all.
when all windows are minimized, the cycle windows keys Alt+Escape and Alt+Shift+Escape no longer work. [see Windows User Interface: Switch Window Problem]
You lost the visual config of your windows. You have to click the task bar, or use ❖ Window+1 etc, or Alt+Tab. you have to do that for each and every of your windows to unhide them.
- This is just one of the user interface problem.
- There are so many others.
- It seems, windows has lots elaborate ui, keyboard shortcuts, the Alt key menu behavior [see Keyboard Menu Key] , and the Ribbon Interface , but almost as if, among this elaborate choices and complexities, they actively removed any that would achieve Muscle Memory User Interface , or otherwise cripple something important.
- From my study and use windows since 1999, using WindowsNT 4 since 1999 for 4 years, it seems, the window is just brainless design, all the ui or shiny elements, are just result of chasing superficial fad for marketing purposes.
- In a similar way, how unix/linux ui is.
- Just that one is chasing marketing fad for average comp illiterate people, while the unix linux r chasing marketing fad by hacker eliticism.
- Both results in ui that's pretty bad for real efficiency.
- Though, Microsoft Windows NT 4 (~1999) and Microsoft Windows XP (2001 to 2007), actually have a great, superior, ui system.
- The whole os can be operated by keyboard alone, and usually fairly efficiently, not the “for disabled people” design.
- And Window's alt key menu system [see Keyboard Menu Key] , is superb.