What kind of idiot designed Google Drive? Cant even see the size of a folder!

[avg123]

Why would they not implement a BASIC feature like displaying the size of a folder? What were they thinking?

[r2724r16]

Why are you telling us, tell Google!

[Radium_Angel]

12 minutes ago, avg123 said:

Why would they not implement a BASIC feature like displaying the size of a folder? What were they thinking?

It's that "New UI" clean design bullshit that's currently infesting UI designers like a bad plague these days.

"Let's hide all useful info, because that'll never go wrong!"

[Christophe Corazza]

What I find annoying is the trash can.

 

I ran out of space on one of my accounts and i started to delete files/folders, and nothing changed in the usage count. Google is evil and smart: when you delete files/folders they put it in the trash can, but don’t delete the files per say. So usage will count trash too. You have to go delete the files in trash as well. I think this is a inteligent/bad way to get people to pay for usage, saying that you don’t have space, but you have if you delete trash items.

[Guest]

I just checked and it is even more bizarre. It still has the "file size" label, but it is just -.

Also when you delete items they still take space.

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

20 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

"what, is the size of this folder in my Google drive?"

"I don't know that!!"

[geo3]

There's an Android app called Solid Explorer. You can connect it up with Google Drive and it will give you folder sizes.

[samcool55]

35 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

It's that "New UI" clean design bullshit that's currently infesting UI designers like a bad plague these days.

"Let's hide all useful info, because that'll never go wrong!"

Holy crap this is so true.

I absolutely HATE the clean design BS.

 

I mean, i still like the looks of XP. These days there are 2 options. Make it all white or make it all black.

Like, wtf is wrong with shades and colors?! I really hope this era of stupid design ends soon.

[samcool55]

12 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

yeah, although I have stronger feelings against recent companies just having typefaces for their logos.

 

... oh, uhh no hard feelings otherwise, LMG

Logo's are also getting a bit silly these days. But luckily you don't need to look at a logo for hours and hours.

With a UI, you can't exactly stop looking at it because it's quite necessary to use whatever it is.

 

If you would have the option to change the theme, i wouldn't mind, but in W10 changing the theme and keeping it working is quite difficult.

[Jtalk4456]

48 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

What I find annoying is the trash can.

 

I ran out of space on one of my accounts and i started to delete files/folders, and nothing changed in the usage count. Google is evil and smart: when you delete files/folders they put it in the trash can, but don’t delete the files per say. So usage will count trash too. You have to go delete the files in trash as well. I think this is a inteligent/bad way to get people to pay for usage, saying that you don’t have space, but you have if you delete trash items.

I get what you're saying, but lets not pretend that desktops don't have recycle bins. This is to prevent accidental deletes from being permanent, and while it may be frustrating for those who intend to delete something, going into the trash bin and deleting it isn't hard. This is a safety tradeoff for convenience.

[Radium_Angel]

2 hours ago, samcool55 said:

Holy crap this is so true.

I absolutely HATE the clean design BS.

 

I mean, i still like the looks of XP. These days there are 2 options. Make it all white or make it all black.

Like, wtf is wrong with shades and colors?! I really hope this era of stupid design ends soon.

If you (the user) has to hunt around to find out how things work, then you (as the designer/dev) have failed.

Icons are meant to replace menus, and the icons are supposed to be a quick *logical* representation of the word(s) they are replacing. Tooltips were helpful too.

 

Good UI design. But it's all been ignored in favour of the "hamburger menu" and "clean UI"

 

Bad UI is still out there of course, look at LotusNotes in the early stages (warning, I am not responsible for your psychiatric bills....you have been warned)

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*bJpEaUR1xIJGh4al.

 

[samcool55]

49 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

If you (the user) has to hunt around to find out how things work, then you (as the designer/dev) have failed.

Icons are meant to replace menus, and the icons are supposed to be a quick *logical* representation of the word(s) they are replacing. Tooltips were helpful too.

 

Good UI design. But it's all been ignored in favour of the "hamburger menu" and "clean UI"

 

Bad UI is still out there of course, look at LotusNotes in the early stages (warning, I am not responsible for your psychiatric bills....you have been warned)

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*bJpEaUR1xIJGh4al.

 

-snip-

Actually, taking about hunting down certain functionality. For some reason i can never find the explorer on some windows 10 machines.

Buttons like documents or this pc are nowhere near where i want them.

I usually have to open the trash bin or a random folder to get into explorer, not ideal...

 

Hamburger menu is like the worst form of modern UI, just give us the damn buttons! Absolutely hate it.

 

If microsoft launches a W10 version with an XP-style, i'll change instantly. I know my way around XP, i know my way around 7 but i just can't find my way around 10. The fact they move everything constantly makes it even more annoying because if you finally learned where something is and you need it a few months later, it's suddenly not there anymore, like WTF why did you move it?!

 

And in the end on W10 you usually end up in the old control panel anyway so what's the point of the stupid settings stuff that's already bloated AF.

[Radium_Angel]

42 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

If microsoft launches a W10 version with an XP-style,

Check out Windows 9

 

(it's Win8.1 embedded with a Win7 UI on top. It exists, I'm running it in a VM)

[samcool55]

54 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Check out Windows 9

 

(it's Win8.1 embedded with a Win7 UI on top. It exists, I'm running it in a VM)

Problem is that amd doesn't support 8.1 anymore so i would be stuck on old drivers...

[Radium_Angel]

13 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Problem is that amd doesn't support 8.1 anymore so i would be stuck on old drivers...

Well that didn't take long to kill off support....

 

[Christophe Corazza]

27 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Problem is that amd doesn't support 8.1 anymore so i would be stuck on old drivers...

 

So basically AMD is forcing everyone on Windows 8.1 to go to the windows 10 route?

 

[JoostinOnline]

19 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

So basically AMD is forcing everyone on Windows 8.1 to go to the windows 10 route?

 

More likely Microsoft is putting pressure on them. They've tried to prevent people from installing Windows 7 on Kaby Lake.

 

Microsoft now makes its money from data collection. That means getting as many people on Windows 10 as possible.

[Christophe Corazza]

11 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

More likely Microsoft is putting pressure on them. They've tried to prevent people from installing Windows 7 on Kaby Lake.

 

But AMD still supports Windows 7, so what's with that?

 

12 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Microsoft now makes its money from data collection. That means getting as many people on Windows 10 as possible.

 

I think that everyone has alreacy figured that one out though 

[JoostinOnline]

2 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

But AMD still supports Windows 7, so what's with that?

They did Windows 7 support simply as a "f*ck you" to Intel, after they'd caved. This was right when Ryzen came out and they were trying to get as much good press as possible.

 

Demand for Windows 8 support isn't exactly high, and they're a much smaller company (they don't even own their headquarters anymore), so I can understand why they are focusing on other areas.

 

5 minutes ago, Christophe Corazza said:

I think that everyone has alreacy figured that one out though 

You'd think so, but people are still surprised when I explain it to them. However, I was only saying it to back up my point about Microsoft likely being the reason.

[samcool55]

14 hours ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

So basically AMD is forcing everyone on Windows 8.1 to go to the windows 10 route?

 

Probably microsoft, i have 2 ryzen systems and both run W7 even tho microsoft officially doesn't support it.

AMD however does support it. All the drivers work fine and the system is perfectly stable. The 2nd generation ryzen however doesn't support W7, that one is W10 only, probably because of the crap microsoft threw at AMD by blocking W7 support...