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tjackenpacken / taskbar-groups

Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups
MIT License
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[Feature Request] Easier way to pin to taskbar (Usability) #38

Open OLLI-S opened 3 years ago

OLLI-S commented 3 years ago

Although I am a computer expert (hopefully), it took me some time to pin my group to the taskbar. Reason: I did not read the text in the application window (who reads text these days).

So maybe you increase the usability (ease of use) and make pinning groups more user friendly:

1) Add a button "Pin to Taskbar" (when a group is pinned label the button "Unpin from taskbar". I am sure you already tried this and this is not possible (otherwise you would not have chosen the way you do it).

2) If 1) is not possible, add a button that shows a message box telling the user that the folder with the groups will be opened and that he just need to right click... When Users confirm the message box, open the folder. This is a little "guided workflow".

With these suggestions the usability will be much better.

tjackenpacken commented 3 years ago

Although I am a computer expert (hopefully), it took me some time to pin my group to the taskbar. Reason: I did not read the text in the application window (who reads text these days).

So maybe you increase the usability (ease of use) and make pinning groups more user friendly:

1. Add a button "Pin to Taskbar" (when a group is pinned label the button "Unpin from taskbar".
   I am sure you already tried this and this is not possible (otherwise you would not have chosen the way you do it).

2. If 1) is not possible, add a button that shows a message box telling the user that the folder with the groups will be opened and that he just need to right click...
   When Users  confirm the message box, open the folder.
   This is a little "guided workflow".

With these suggestions the usability will be much better.

Hi!

As you mentioned does Windows not allow third party apps to alter user favourites etc. such as pinned items.

I'm in general not a big fan of message boxes, but it might be needed here since, as you say, the helper texts is not a great solution. I know that some programs are able to open windows folder with additional information on them. I will do some research for if that would be possible here.

OLLI-S commented 3 years ago

@tjackenpacken and @pikent You both are doing a great job with your tool and I am confident, that it will be a powerful tool in the future. Love to help improving it with my ideas.