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I personally am very excited for the upcoming Windows 11 update which will allow users to move the taskbar to any edge of their screen.

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I don't use windows too often, but I remember I was happy with an update a year or two ago which allows changing the volume by scrolling on the tray icon.

Now, of course, it still doesn't work with a touchpad, but baby steps, right?

This feature has been was available on GNOME since forever. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to steal another nice thing: MRU (Most Recently Used) keyboard layout switching. If you have two often used keyboard layouts A and B, and less used layouts C, D, E, then pressing the switch shortcut once will switch between A and B without the need to cycle through C, D, E.

I never really cared for Gnome so I've never actually used it, but I can't say I'm surprised.

But this has worked in KDE since version 3, like, 20 years ago? And also with pasystray running under i3, since before win11 was a thing. They both support scrolling with the touchpad, too.

It drove me up a wall not being able to do this when I had to use Windows at work.

As for your MRU layout thing, I'm not sure I'd like it. While I like MRU for alt-tab, i like my not-so-often-used functions to be predictable. For this specific case, I always use us-macintosh, so I'd like to be sure that if I press the shortcut X times I'll get Y layout, without having to remember the order in which I used them. Now, to be fair, in my case I only have US-Mac available since it does everything I need.

OMG I didn't know about this. It works! Hover over the speaker icon and adjust with the mouse wheel.

Ah it'll be just like 2015 again

Yep and it will be glorious.

I cant wait for the number one gripe of all my users to finally be catered for.

Wasn’t this in win 95?

Not to start a flame war, but people who move their taskbar to the left edge of the screen are extremely sinister and should not be trusted, because they probably use tabs instead of spaces, and vi instead of emacs. Putting your taskbar on the right edge is fine though, as is using spaces and emacs. Putting the taskbar on the top or bottom just means you're gay, not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)

Tabs on the other hand (and of the other type) should be able to move freely between all edges of all windows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432170

such innovation. very wow

Nobody said anything about innovation, the discussion was about whether people look forward to windows updates or not.

I don't know if reverting features and then users being glad when they implement them again years later is great proof that people "like" Windows updates as a general statement

People aren't glad for the update. They are only glad to get a feature back that Microsoft was trying to gaslight them into believing they never wanted in the first place.

Wait, when did they take that away?

I haven't touched MS in this decade, but I swear that used to be a thing at least through 7...

Something that they removed in Windows 11 because yes.

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