What I dislike is that temperature and distance in a couple of apps are now in US units, which I find unreasonable. I should be able to choose SI units if I want to.
Windows has been getting locale settings right for ages now. I find it sad that Android is so far behind in that regard.
What you want is already possible. However, I do wish the platform allowed a more direct customization of all LC_* stuff.
> Windows has been getting locale settings right for ages now.
Do you mean Windows phone? If so, I'm impressed. If you meant Windows, the computer OS series, well, that would not be a fair comparison for Android. Linux already gets that right.
Everytime I use iOS or Android, I'm quickly reminded that that is not the case outside windows phone.
And I'm in the opposite situation: I prefer British English but want traditional units only.
This really should be user-settable. Heck, even outside of America some folks prefer decimetres over centimetres!
? Isn't a decimetre a metric measurement?
But the US uses feet and inches.
That's because those settings were designed before the era of "simplify everything that could even slightly potentially confuse an idiot user" and have been retained from then. I wouldn't be so sure if the future Windows versions will still be as customisable, given that they've already removed things like the ability to change fonts and colours in the UI. It's almost a given that sooner or later someone will come across it, think "let's overhaul/refresh/'enhance the UX'", and turn it into a totally sleek and stylish but less functional version of what it used to be.
I love my MacBook, but Apple makes stupid decisions just like anyone else.
Ctrl-a to select all files for example, ctrl-x to cut, alt-tab or navigate to a different directory and ctrl-v to paste.
Because typically cutting deletes, not marks. This seems like a great implementation though.
First copy the files you want, then move them instead of pasting (Command-Option-V). This gives you the same behavior without the confusion/danger of the files being lost in limbo between cutting and pasting, which I think is honestly better UX design.
They didn't remove anything. No version of Mac OS ever applied the cut-paste metaphor to the filesystem, going all the way back to 1984.
It's a Windows concept.
I suppose they expect you to click and drag to move a file, rather than the slightly unintuitive Cut and Paste on entire files. There's no real physical analogy for a cut.
(The recent addition of a special hotkey to paste-with-delete is not much of an improvement, since it still obfuscates the actual, expected behavior (of Ctrl-X) in favor of a different, more obscure, but notionally "friendlier" alternative.)