My first blog post on this blog [found here in Nov 03 2010] was about making your status bar icons display as text. When you have the icons displayed, you end up wasting time hovering over an icon and waiting for text to display to make sure that you are about to toggle the correct button like POLAR or OTRACK. And we even pointed out that the Ribbon makes use of text so that we can easily see what tools are displayed and how this fits in with that thinking, it fell on deaf ears… And sadly, with the release of AutoCAD 2015 they took this ability away.
We warned Autodesk about this and told them about the seriousness of taking these seemingly simple letters away. I even showed the size comparison from 2014 and 2016 to show that there wasn’t much size difference.
But they “done-did-it” for the second year in a row!! and they tried to show use that they have “improved” the status bar by having it “self wrap” which had the opposite effect and made us even more mad.
And today on April 1st, there are reports of massive riots and looting around the world because people want Autodesk to give back the text option.
It seems from the live reports seen online and on TV, people are breaking down store fronts and taking cookies for some reason. Some rioters have even come back to the scenes from which they just stole the cookies, and then stole milk…
Police believe that the mastermind of these riots is shown below. If you happen to see this individual, proceed with caution and do not approach him if you happen to have any cookies in your possession. He tend to go into fits of rage around them for some reason
And to think – all of this could have been avoided if Autodesk simply provided Status Bar text as an option. Be careful out there…
~Greg
