iOS and Android are both very successful and easy to use tablet OS's. Both have a status bar with useful icons/widgets. Why did Microsoft remove it from Win 8 Metro?
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 20:45
Metro never had a status bar to begin with, so how could they remove it?iOS and Android are both very successful and easy to use tablet OS's. Both have a status bar with useful icons/widgets. Why did Microsoft remove it from Win 8 Metro?
Neowinian Senior
Posted 30 July 2012 - 20:50
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Neowinian²
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:05
The phone has a status bar which is brought into view with a tap at the top.
Windows 8 gets an overlay when you swipe for the charms, with battery, time, signal strength etc
From here to infirmary.
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:08
it makes no sense to hide it.
mdta - graphic designer
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:24
Why do you need it ever present, where a simple tap or swipe is too much of an effort to see this stuff. Also if the device screen is off, press the power button and its on the lock screen.Making sense is not really Microsoft's strength these days. I fully agree on this one, it's one of the largest annoyances I had with Metro. There's simply no rationalizing it, a mere notification indicator would have done wonders for usability of the entire platform.
Software Engineer
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:25
I know that. The point of a status bat is its visible. Esp on a desktop where there is more than enough space. I'm perfectly fine with how it is now on an Arm tablet, with no desktop. But with desktop apps that have useful information in the status bar, it makes no sense to hide it.
Resident Elite
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:28
STOP BEING LOGICAL! Personally I love the fact that the there is no unnecessary information on a metro app, but all the info I want is just a Win+C away.With desktop apps, you have the taskbar... with the notification area... which provides all the same information...
Being on the ocean is cooler then being in front of a Computer
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:29
From here to infirmary.
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:30
Why do you need it ever present, where a simple tap or swipe is too much of an effort to see this stuff. Also if the device screen is off, press the power button and its on the lock screen.
Disgustipator
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:31
With desktop apps, you have the taskbar... with the notification area... which provides all the same information...
mdta - graphic designer
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:37
If you are in a metro app, and you want to see the clock, date, signal strength, or battery life. You will have to swipe for the charms. There will not be a permanent on screen status bar!For desktop users stricktly in Metro I think was his point rfirth. If someone want to never use the desktop, Metro is much more of a pain for at a glance items that they could see before without a swipe or click. (If Metro is the future, apologists need to spend a lot less time saying well, you can do that on the desktop. No ****?!)
Metro has no status bar because they aren't that far into the design state yet, its quite alpha. Even my WP7 can show basic things like time without a swipe so don't give me that 'it hides battery/network' business. Two different classes of 'info'.
Cause gods forbid, especially on a desktop, that we'd like to glace at it but not interact with it (which is a much more common scenario than on handheld devices obviously).
Neowinian DOMINATING
Posted 30 July 2012 - 22:37
It has a whole freaking screen showing notifications. It's called the start screen.iOS and Android are both very successful and easy to use tablet OS's. Both have a status bar with useful icons/widgets. Why did Microsoft remove it from Win 8 Metro?
