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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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There is no excuse for making functions worse with new firmware (e.g. the new way brightness control is handled). Making things worse is 'absolute rubbish UI design' indeed - and this is independent of how annoyed an individual may end up being by such changes.
And to all the people on this forum who do not seem to be bothered by ergonomic inconveniences, bugs and certain questionable 'design decisions': please just accept that not everybody manages to be as tolerant towards such issues as you are. Consider extending your tolerance to people who do not share your opinions about such things.
Having followed KOBO firmware design for quite some time now:
There is no excuse for implementing basic firmware features in an ergonomically dysfunctional way. Just look at the still not fixed/improved way dictionary (other than English-English) lookup and pdf display are handled or the (ongoing) problems with basic epub page rendering. These are straightforward features offered by almost any freeware android reading app in a fairly useable way ... but not by KOBO.
I for one consider the fact that there are no efforts to fix such things as a token of utter incompetence with regards to firmware design and development and/or a token of disrespect for their customers.