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Originally Posted by Caramon77
The UI is more trained-user-only from firm to firm. It seems Kobo just want their ereaders to be bought from already koboed people.
It's simply stupid to remove easy icons and moves and replace with fancier, more modern and minimal ones, getting a worse user experience. For example the basic, perfect light icon... now it takes more time to change light level and an unexperienced user has to remeber that it's on the menu. Why? To remove an icon in a rarely seen bar...
I read that in 2.10 to get to the TOC you have to tap page number... why? how can i know it if I am a non geek, if i don't read forums, if i have a Kobo and I am used to tap a useful, dedicated icon?
Minimalism sometimes get you to an elegant and uncomfortable world. To sell better and use worse.
I am on 2.8.1 with patcher and night mode and i think i will not update.
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I think you can blame some of this on the Aura. With the Aura the menu option for brightness becomes an afterthought due to the multi-touch functionality.
As for the TOC, it's logical even if a bit less convenient. You get the table of content option inside the navigation submenu which makes its own kind of sense.
The problem is that you can't please everybody and that "simple dedicated icons" aren't always sooo clear. There are icons on my phones and tablets which are meant to be intuitive and easy to understand that took me months to learn how to use since I was used to the menu options with acutal words. There are still icons which I have no idea what they do.