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Kovid - What is key phrase MS uses for this idea - apart from 'daft'. Maybe the guy who does 7+TT can add a setting - he knows more about the Windows taskbar than anyone else - period. I'll ask him.
Meantime I'll use pre-2.66 portables.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
The idea is that regardless of how you start calibre, it is always identified as calibre to the OS.
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Whose daft idea was that - some idiot on the Far Eastern Shore I assume
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Originally Posted by BR rant
It's me the user - the one who owns the computer, pays the ISP, utility bills, pays MS for the OS license etc - who needs to know what's running, and the task bar has long been my primary source of such information. They already made the highlighting of active tasks almost invisible, especially if there's more than one instance.
Since when did the whims of the OS take precedence over the needs of the user?
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Assumin your normal calibre install is 64 bit you can still tell at a glance that you are runnign portable by looking at the statusbar in the main calibre window.
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Can't tell at a glance if calibre is minimised, which for me is more often true than its false.
Before, if I saw portable was running and I wanted to run my 'normal' 64bit install, I would press Winkey+T, Up, Menu key, Down, Down, Enter (portable dies), Winkey+4 (64bit springs to life). And while I did that I could continue with whatever lead me to want the 64 bit version.
Now I have to tap Winkey+4, Enter to restore,
read the version number, deduce its not the 64bit installed version, Alt+space, C to close (portable dies), Winkey+4 (64bit springs to life).
It's not a keystroke counting issue, as an efficiency measure that's about as useful $%# on a bull . It's the fact that I have to change what's on my screen and read text in order to determine what's running - hardly a glance, and certainly not information at your fingertips Ψ²
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Originally Posted by BR rant
Guess I'll have to have to live with it. Why don't they do something useful like conjure up a way to allow Windows to take advantage the long path name capabilities of NTFS rather than dreaming up daft ideas to rob users of functionality they have come to depend upon over almost a decade - for no apparent good reason.
It's another brick in the dumbing down of society conspiracy wall.
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BR