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Originally Posted by rayhigh
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.
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Sorry, but after your "~75" taps comment, I think you are just exaggerating again to make a point. I just don't believe that you can't tell from the settings screen if the brightness is correct, and even if you can't, I don't believe that after taking a day or two to fiddle with it you don't know that 10% or 15% or whatever is the right number. I understand you have taken a position and are sticking with it, but you seem far too intelligent for me to believe that every night you have to go into the brightness settings as many as five times in order to figure out how much backlight you need.
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Originally Posted by rayhigh
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.
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Why do people always give your C.V. on the internet when they are trying to make a point? Do you feel your argument is stronger because you don't like Microsoft's UI? DO you think its more convincing because you switched to a Mac? I built PCs for about fifteen years and switched to Macs about ten years ago. Are my arguments better then yours because I realized that the Mac UI was garbage 9 years before you did?
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Originally Posted by rayhigh
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.
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I get it. I get it. You believe that on a function that some people will do a couple of times a day and some people will do a couple of times a week, and some people will almost never do at all, one tap and then move a slider is easy, efficient, and pleasant. Three taps and move a slider is absolutely rubbish.
I have to ask, what would two taps and move a slider be?
In any case, I remain unconvinced. It feels to me like you are only concerned about this one use-case. What about people who want to adjust the brightness from the main page? Would you put the brightness controls in both spots? How many other functions would you move to the book page? Do you consider the brightness control a system level function or a reading function? Can you see any value to putting all the system level functions together? Can you see any value to keeping the reading page as simple as possible?
Again, it seems to me that you are just arguing from the perspective of getting as few taps as possible for this one use-case. Perhaps if you think about the whole UI, you will decide that there was some value in Kobo's decision, and perhaps you will decide it wasn't completely a mistake after all, even if it wasn't a perfect decision for your use.