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Originally Posted by kaufman
You mean three. Three taps to being up the bar to begin with. Three.
Perhaps you threw everyone off before when you said:
I understand that you were just using hyperbole when you said "~75 taps", but since its actually just three taps, it was throwing people off. And while two extra taps to do something several times a day can by annoying, I'm not sure that Kobo's misplaced efforts to clean up the UI by moving the brightness bar should really come under the heading of "absolutely rubbish UI design". Given that it is just three taps.
I guess the point I am trying to make is that you seem to be getting really worked up over two extra taps on a function you do only a few times a day.
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Here's the thing: when I'm adjusting it while reading at night, it takes me a while to get it just right. As a result, I'm in there 3, or 4, or 5 times in a short period of time. Those extra taps add up, especially when I have to press that annoyingly small brightness icon.
I stand by the characterization as an absolutely rubbish UI design. Then again, despite the fact that I'm a person who, for example, built my own PCs for more than 25 years, gave it up because I got fed up with Microsoft's garbage UI, and switched to Macs, which, after a year, I don't regret at all.
Perhaps I've become more particular. I know there's nothing that I find more irritating than a UI that makes it difficult for me, the U in UI, to do what I want to do easily, efficiently, and pleasantly.