Comment by koyote
4 years ago
I agree and am actually surprised that several years in there is still a bunch of stuff that is not configurable in the new Settings screen. I am obviously speaking without extensive knowledge of the underlying internals but surely it can't be that difficult to wrap some settings in a new UI if you dedicate a team to it?
I actually spent 15 minutes the other day trying to remove an additional keyboard layout that somehow found itself on my machine. I had to give up as I could not find the option in the new Settings screen and it seemed to have disappeared (or moved?) from the usual place in the Control Panel...
I had this too. I found and fixed the setting in the registry. They seem to have arrived at an UI design that cannot correctly represent the possible states of the underlying "real" model. Their current GUI for managing installed language keyboards is unfortunate. It appears to be optimized for a perceived majority of users only needing a single layout, in a way that makes it difficult to manage multiple layouts. Somehow their UI mix the keyboard layouts together with the GUI display language. I don't quite understand, why they don't just let the user manage a simple list of installed keyboard layouts (I believe it used to work that way, and behind the scenes it probably still does?)
Yep. It seems to occasionally add keyboard layouts if your region, language, and keyboard layout are different. Not handy if you live abroad. The new UI assumes it's more clever than the user.
It super frustrating to have to go on a treasure hunt just to find some options there.
To this day, every time I need to uninstall an application I still do: win+R -> control appwiz.cpl -> enter and it brings me to the place I want to be.
The SaaS version of exchange has the same problem, and the support people start by having you switch to the old menu because they don't know where everything has been moved in the new one.