'Remove' toolbar icon removed from Windows Explorer

De : Catherine

I see that the deletion icon has been removed from the toolbar of windows Explorer.  Number of questions:

1. How can I get it back?

2. why it was deleted?  (what are the requirements user gathered?)

3. a series of questions asked (see "Icons of the toolbar") on this same issue, but none of them responded by someone from Microsoft MVP (or similar).  Why is this?

De : Andrew McLaren

Here's the right questions, I can't wait to see the answers.

My 2 cents... the toolbar in the Vista Explorer is not configurable. Soon, this was discovered by developers keen to add buttons for their own applications. You can add a 3rd party application "command bar" to explore; but you cannot change the toolbar provided by Windows.

As to why, I have no idea. I think (and this is only a guess) the Shell team tried for an experience user easier and more orthogonal; where there are fewer controls and a tendency to the only way to get something done. If you want to manipulate an object, such as a file, you select and right click on the object itself, then choose your action from the context menu. While there are more controls toolbar in Vista to manipulate the whole environment (Organization, views), rather than the individual objects in this environment. But then they went and he screwed up by adding the Open, Email, etc. to the toolbar when a file is selected. Why open a file, but not to delete? I do not know. Maybe the pressure during the beta user, diluted the original, clean, pragmatic design often determine theoretical purity in the design of Microsoft (not always a good thing, or the other).

Personally, I think that the new Explorer is messy, and needs a great usability of revision. But despite this, he is reasonably usable, today - better than Nautilus in Gnome!

As for MVP you reply... know that MVPs are quite ordinary people, hanging out in their free time. They have absolutely no formal obligation to Microsoft, or anyone else, to answer the questions at all. And in any case they are official voice for Microsoft (I speak as a MVP myself - but not in the Vista product specialty). They have jobs full-time that is clean, and they are not paid for answering questions in the forums. And microsoft.public.windows.vista.general is a busy group, so it is difficult to follow. The more interesting question is: why are there so few employees of Microsoft and, in particular, program managers, taking part in discussions to explain the design decisions?

Anyway, you can use the Community mechanism to make suggestions to Microsoft, as described here:

http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/library/gallery/components/Wn/3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm#GiveMSFeedback

'Suggestions for Microsoft' are enabled in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, if you are using the web interface:

http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx

While it would be nice if the internal Microsoft people are more come with information about design decisions, there are at least a few blogs with dirty laundry has revealed. For the shell, there are:

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/default.aspx

and

http://shellrevealed.com/

If you dig deep enough you might find some background info here. There are also a few forums focused on the shell, which may give better answers.

It will be useful,

--

Andrew McLaren

amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot to the


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