A lap around Windows 7 new Scenic Ribbon

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows.
Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team members Chaitanya Sareen, Trish Miner, Stephan Hoefnagels as we present the new Windows 7 Taskbar functionality and motivations. This video shows what is new in the Windows 7 desktop and taskbar, and the common user tasks and scenarios we are simplifying.
The Windows 7 Taskbar Overview is one of a series of Channel 9 videos about the new Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include:
1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar
2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes
3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists
For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the
Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics post. For more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the The
Windows 7 Blog for Developers.
If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos:
Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and
Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times.
the new taskbar and win7 in general is pretty awsome i gotta say..
there are some things i miss though
there isnt any indication of what host window a tab lives in :/ its not a huge deal but in an app like vs one might have several instances with the same file name (but diffrent branches for example) its a problem, albeit not a huge one.. (peek help with this
issue)
a grouping feature cold also have been used for tab groups in ie..
what im saying i guess is that it whould be cool if windows that are collapsed together in the taskbar could be grouped further in an app specific way is that possible somehow?
Hi big Al,
To answer you last question, yes. You can control the way you group different windows in to one glom or several gloms. Watch the
Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists for more information and examples.
And thanks for the feedback.
About the drag/dropping of icons in notification areas.. what if I want an icon to show up only when it has a certain appearance? For instance, on my Vista laptop right now, I have the LAN icon set to hidden except when there is an actual connection. Likewise, I'd like to set up the WHS Connector icon to only show up when my network is critical (and the icon is red). I can do that in Vista right now, because it allows you to show/hide stuff based on the appearance of the icon. How would I do that in 7?
Charles - Why Not?
Cost?
what do i have to do to report bugs in win7? i cant seem to find a connect page and the "send feedback" links say i dont have premission to post in the connect forums :/ is there an invitation code im missing? i got my beta key from msdn..
the bugs ive found are mostly in the shell but still, they are a bit annoying.. nothing major though.
does anyone know why the icons such as library and homegroup appear in the folder desktop in explorer but not on the actual desktop? at least i think thats a bug.. if not, its very confusing also, if you delete the library from the desktop folder in explorer,
then right click on your username in the start menu (took a while for me to figure out that that was actually the library and not the "user folder" now, also confusing i might add) and add it back, it does appear on the desktop and in the desktop folder in
explorer..
also, if you delete the username folder in the desktop folder in explorer (again, because that folder isnt visible on the actual desktop), instead of disappearing, the libraries and homegroup folders pop back in the desktop folder, but not on the desktop O_o
again, these arent critical bugs but they are confusing and would definitly hurt win7 in the eye of users if they remain until rtm :/ regular users dont notice things like the new more core aware thread scheduler for example, no matter how good it is :/
ive also had issues with the glass turning solid in some windows and on the taskbar.. setting the color intensitiy pops the glass right back, but annoying still :/
id love to be able to post this stuff in the proper place but this'll have to do for now
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