• Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge

    It was working fine in windows 95. Suddenly all programmers became incompetent and can’t handle something like that?

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      9 hours ago

      This makes no sense to me what so ever. Why do any apps care about where the taskbar is? How’s it any different when a window isn’t maximised and the user resizes it? Either I’m seriously misunderstanding this or it’s a completely made up excuse.

      I’d rather they just say “we completely rewrote the taskbar, but we know that less than 0.01% of users move their taskbar so we didn’t prioritize it”.

      To me the bigger issue with the taskbar is that you can’t make it compact. Instead it has to be a big chunky mess.