| ▲ | flowerlad 3 hours ago |
| MS Paint has broken in so many different ways since they started "improving" it. One big frustration is that the hit areas around selection handles are now oversized--probably because someone read about Fitts's Law. You can no longer move small selected regions because whenever your mouse is within a mile (seemingly) of a handle, it grabs the handle instead of the region. |
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| ▲ | seritools 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > probably because someone read about Fitts's Law probably for touch screens, like all the oversized, over-padded ui everywhere |
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| ▲ | hliyan 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Agreed. It is impossible to make an interface that works well for smaller screens with touch input, and larger screens with pointer input. You will always end up sacrificing information density and precision on the larger screen. | | |
| ▲ | criddell 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure, but Windows knows I don't have a touchscreen but I do have a mouse and keyboard so there's no point in touch accommodation. Even if you have a touchscreen, they should know what type of pointing device is being used to select something and the targets should adapt to that. | |
| ▲ | jklinger410 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They should just have a manually selected touch mode. They are second class citizens and should be treated as such. | | |
| ▲ | yonatan8070 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or just have the interface autoscale itself like context menus on W10, if you trigger one with your mouse, it has compact mouse padding, if you trigger it with touch, it has bigger touch padding. |
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| ▲ | hbn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's why I'm dreading the upcoming touchscreen MacBooks. They already defaced macOS in Tahoe. It's a bit better in Golden Gate but still a massive regression that I only foresee getting worse as every UI will have to be built with "can this be used with someone's fat finger?" | |
| ▲ | kukkamario 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, there are separate events for touch input and mouse input on native software. You can actually handle both if you actually have time to hone that to perfection... |
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| ▲ | Akronymus 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| i used to use mspaint for its lack of anti aliasing. Then they added it and wouldnt let you disable it. Anyways, much happier now that I no longer use it. |
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| ▲ | HoldOnAMinute an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I loved MS Paint on Windows 7. Perfect for small jobs. |
