OSX has them, and is one of the workflow reasons I prefer OSX.
Windows doesn't have column views, and the 3rd party file explorers options are not to my taste!
I wish Gnome would add them!
I'd be happy using Linux more of the time if they did!
> I'd be happy using Linux more of the time if they did!
Try Phanteon Files[0] from the Elementary Os team. Or Ranger[1] if you work in the terminal.
[0] https://github.com/elementary/files [1] https://github.com/ranger/ranger
Also, the ribbon bar on desktop MS Office is inconsistent, with some things accessible via tabs/ribbons, and some not. in a ribbon UI, everything should be accessible through the same interface.
If this sounds silly for software, then what exactly is the UX/UI of a spreadsheet application, and why is it so universally useful? At first, I thought this was by virtue of its tabular UI/UX, but books are nothing but rows and columns of text, are they not? At least Awk thinks so. What is the difference between a cell and a sheet in a relational sense? I see no difference, or that is, its design is isomorphic.
A book is a collection of sheets, where a sheet consists of other sheets or views, where a view is any given selection and dimension of text. Sheets can be stacked, ordered, sorted, and indexed into new books, just as words can--and as linguists say, into an infinite set of sentences (views). This design cannot be reduced in a hyper-grammatical sense.
This is to suggest that a "book" UX/UI would require a new way on how we approach language not only within the context of software but language--it's a direct spit in the face of Chomsky himself (although he would have more to say about this than I), but hasn't this been a long ways in coming? It seems as if textual communication is the long term trend, but comes at no surprise to any of us, here whom work remotely. So really when I say "book" based UX/UI, I mean just that, but really--it is augmented natural grammar--a subject beyond the scope of this discussion.
All good UX solves a problem, so what is the problem here? It's increasing the transmission capacity of information over text, or that is, expanding what and how we can express as information with language, without monumental standards. But no language is without communication and therefore the crux of the problem lies in the future of higher level network protocols (if you believe in such a thing).
I would think a book is an ordered collection of chapters, a chapter an ordered collection of paragraphs, etc.
The pages are there solely to force the book into a physical form, just as one can ‘project’ a spreadsheet onto pages. Scrolls are an alternative physical form.
if I may suggest a few tips: -use spacebar to open command search box. I wish more software had this. -use hotkeys rather than menus. -when you use an operator you can see additional options at the bottom bar. -blender is based on operators and context. once you get used to the fact whatever you do is based on where your mouse is, it actually makes a lot more sense than traditional software where hotkeys are pretty much global.
And in general, I’d return from a bloating whitespace and large buttons to something really productive.
They have a flashy new interface. compared to our older system. However, it's slower, takes more clicks/screens to do things, and buries some stuff in multilevel menus.