▲ 244 ▼ Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers (www.which.co.uk) submitted 8 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 16 points 8 months ago (4 children) Windows printing is already a mess and a pain. Look to pre Windows 7, an easy standard print dialog. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] addie@feddit.uk 23 points 8 months ago (2 children) A dialogue box where it's obvious what you can click on, all the information you need is clearly displayed, and all the keyboard shortcuts are visible? Some UX designer at Microsoft will be having a fit. Better convert that all to React and hide most of it behind a hamburger menu at once; this isn't how things are done in Windows any more. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Archer@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago I still miss the XP Control Panel. We didn’t know how good we had it permalink fedilink source parent [–] oyzmo@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago .. and last but not least, a dialogbox where everything works and the print actually get printed when you click print. Yup, not the MS way anymore permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago Ah. I miss that good ui. Such a good ui. There's a reason it's still around on all the utility backend and admin stuffs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] addie@feddit.uk 23 points 8 months ago (2 children) A dialogue box where it's obvious what you can click on, all the information you need is clearly displayed, and all the keyboard shortcuts are visible? Some UX designer at Microsoft will be having a fit. Better convert that all to React and hide most of it behind a hamburger menu at once; this isn't how things are done in Windows any more. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Archer@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago I still miss the XP Control Panel. We didn’t know how good we had it permalink fedilink source parent [–] oyzmo@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago .. and last but not least, a dialogbox where everything works and the print actually get printed when you click print. Yup, not the MS way anymore permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Archer@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago I still miss the XP Control Panel. We didn’t know how good we had it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oyzmo@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago .. and last but not least, a dialogbox where everything works and the print actually get printed when you click print. Yup, not the MS way anymore permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago Ah. I miss that good ui. Such a good ui. There's a reason it's still around on all the utility backend and admin stuffs. permalink fedilink source parent