Category: gui

  • Windows 7 UI glitch

    While reading this post I’ve remembered a quirk of the Windows 7 UI which annoys me to no end: you have to click on a non-empty part of the list to get the item-specific menu, otherwise you will get the folder-specific menu, as shown in the second screenshot: This is in fact consistent with the…

  • Portable GUI applications

    After moving almost entirely to Ubuntu (I haven’t booted Windows on my home computer for almost a month now :)), I searched for ways to create little applications which I can use at my workplace (in a mostly Windows environment). For command line scripts Perl worked out great (just a reminder to everyone, including myself:…