Comment by flowerlad

3 days ago

MS Paint has broken in so many different ways since they started "improving" it. One big frustration is that the hit areas around selection handles are now oversized--probably because someone read about Fitts's Law. You can no longer move small selected regions because whenever your mouse is within a mile (seemingly) of a handle, it grabs the handle instead of the region.

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seritools  3 days ago

> probably because someone read about Fitts's Law

probably for touch screens, like all the oversized, over-padded ui everywhere

  • hliyan  3 days ago

    Agreed. It is impossible to make an interface that works well for smaller screens with touch input, and larger screens with pointer input. You will always end up sacrificing information density and precision on the larger screen.

    • criddell  3 days ago

      Sure, but Windows knows I don't have a touchscreen but I do have a mouse and keyboard so there's no point in touch accommodation.

      Even if you have a touchscreen, they should know what type of pointing device is being used to select something and the targets should adapt to that.

    • hbn  3 days ago

      That's why I'm dreading the upcoming touchscreen MacBooks.

      They already defaced macOS in Tahoe. It's a bit better in Golden Gate but still a massive regression that I only foresee getting worse as every UI will have to be built with "can this be used with someone's fat finger?"

    • kukkamario  3 days ago

      Well, there are separate events for touch input and mouse input on native software. You can actually handle both if you actually have time to hone that to perfection...

ack_complete  3 days ago

One of the sillier regressions, which was thankfully fixed, was that the new Paint used to draw the marching ants animation around a selection regardless of whether the app was in the foreground. An instance of Paint with a rectangular selection would eat 5% of the GPU continuously in the background.

Akronymus  3 days ago

i used to use mspaint for its lack of anti aliasing. Then they added it and wouldnt let you disable it.

Anyways, much happier now that I no longer use it.

x______________  3 days ago

If you cut from mspaint, open a new mspaint window and paste immediately, it'll incorrectly paste and mess up the image resolution and size.