get ui right

Windows Media Player 11 has the bottom blue buttons Windows Photo Gallery has the bottom blue buttons Windows Contacts has the bottom blue buttons Windows Calendar has the bottom blue buttons
That's why Windows Movie Maker should have the bottom blue bottons...
BUT IT DOESN'T!
I'm serious here, MS never gets its "uniform" UI right -_-

Nicholas wrote:

Windows Media Player 11 has the bottom blue buttons Windows Photo Gallery has the bottom blue buttons Windows Contacts has the bottom blue buttons Windows Calendar has the bottom blue buttons
That's why Windows Movie Maker should have the bottom blue bottons...
BUT IT DOESN'T!
I'm serious here, MS never gets its "uniform" UI right -_-

There are other UI inconsistencies for (near-) identical functions between WMP11 music/photo handling and Explorer's native music/photo handling. It's easy to flip between the two and get rather disoriented.

What would such buttons do? WMM is a different kind of program from the ones you list. Those programs all let you browse back and forth through a set of items and perform actions on one or more of those items. IMHO the Calendar is a bit of a stretch but it does fit the pattern.
WMM is much more task oriented. You are either capturing video, editing and arranging clips or producing the finished movie file. The only use I could see for such buttons is maybe to browse your captured clips, but that's not the primary purpose of the app.
Now if your just arguing that everything in Vista should now have translucent blue buttons at the bottom because those programs do, I've got a Hobgoblin story to tell you.
<Nicholas> wrote in message

Windows Media Player 11 has the bottom blue buttons Windows Photo Gallery has the bottom blue buttons Windows Contacts has the bottom blue buttons Windows Calendar has the bottom blue buttons
That's why Windows Movie Maker should have the bottom blue bottons...
BUT IT DOESN'T!
I'm serious here, MS never gets its "uniform" UI right -_-

"Now if your just arguing that everything in Vista should now have translucent blue buttons at the bottom because those programs do, I've got a Hobgoblin story to tell you."
Umm... no... It's because MS *marketed* these programs as "consumer" applications, so they should be unified in UI.
Look at Office 2003, I wouldn't see Word having flotating toolbars and Excel having only menu system (no toolbars). That would be confusing, but thankfully, all Office 2003 programs have a *unified UI* that includes a toolbar on the top, and task panes. Note that they're unified because MS *marketed them as corporate programs*., so... a unified UI...
Don't want to go too far off, but it seems like Office 2007 is going to break that law too. Only Word, Excel, PowerPoint would have a new, unified UI and the rest using the old, unified UI. Taken together, Office 2007 won't be having a unified UI.
Regards
-- Nicholas...
"Overclock Your Life, Then The World"

Chris Altmann wrote:

What would such buttons do? WMM is a different kind of program from the ones you list. Those programs all let you browse back and forth through a set of items and perform actions on one or more of those items. IMHO the Calendar is a bit of a stretch but it does fit the pattern.
WMM is much more task oriented. You are either capturing video, editing and arranging clips or producing the finished movie file. The only use I could see for such buttons is maybe to browse your captured clips, but that's not the primary purpose of the app.

The WMP Library is quite similar in the range of functions to the way Explorer acts on multimedia files, yet different enough to be annoying. Since each invokes the other for certain operations, it's easy to get frustrated by these differences.

Amen to that!
And, while we're on the UI subject, is it just me, or does anyone else agree that the Media Center UI is horrible?
"Nicholas" wrote:

Windows Media Player 11 has the bottom blue buttons Windows Photo Gallery has the bottom blue buttons Windows Contacts has the bottom blue buttons Windows Calendar has the bottom blue buttons
That's why Windows Movie Maker should have the bottom blue bottons...
BUT IT DOESN'T!
I'm serious here, MS never gets its "uniform" UI right -_-