Hi Dark,
Sure. I love organization as well. If you looked at my Windows 7 laptop,
which I'm using currently, you would discover my icons in the start menu
are are all sorted and organized accordingly.
For example, if you click on All Programs you'll find a submenu called
Games. Under Games are Draconis Entertainment, PCs Games, GMA Games, USA
Games, etc. Under those subfolders are the actual submenus for each
game. Under GMA Games there is a submenu for Tank Commander, Shades of
Doom, Time of Conflict, GMA Solitaire, etc. So I know exactly what you
mean about organizing your icons like books on a shelf. It makes finding
something easier because the icons are in a logical place.
That's actually one reason I'm a bit disappointed in Windows 8's Metro
interface and Ubuntu 12's Unity interface. There is no way to organize
things that makes logical sense for me personally. Everything is just
there on the screen which I suppose is fine for a sighted user, but
lacks any kind of structure or organization that a blind user can
follow. All be it Unity at least is more accessible in the sense I can
add my favorite apps to the launcher toolbar which puts everything I use
on a daily bases in one place that is easy to get to. I suppose that's
similar to pinning an app to the taskbar in Windows 8 rather than
fighting Metro to find the icon in the start screen.
On 4/22/2012 12:39 PM, dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
as I have said before, I could probably learn to live with the search
box, but I just like the pleasure and convenience of organizing stuff
myself, just as I might books or dvds on a shelf, which is why I think
for me the columnbs with a touch screen would actually be preferable
to using the search box, ---- hopefully by the time I need to worry
about windows 8 there will be good accessible solutions, indeed if
touch screen navigation, and other aplications become common on the
pcthere might even be some reasonable justification for upgrading to
windows 8 that imho there wasn't from xp to 7 as I said in our
previous discussion, it'll all depend upon what happens in the next
few years I suppose, ----- though I will say I'd be very sorry to give
up my 40 inch flat screen tv that I currently have my pc (which is
also my dvd player), gamecube and Snes plugged into, ---- for low
vision access to games it's amazingly clear and also larger than any
tv I've had before. Though hopefully if the touch screen thing does
come into practice, there will be a sensor similar to the one for the
wiimote that could be used instead of a specially adapted screen.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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