I just switched from the obviously dropped GWD Text Editor to Notepad++ and I liked it immediately after having changed some settings (why the heck have comments the awful non-fixed-width "Comic" font by default?)
But I want to discuss the IMHO badly designed taskbar icon. There is little contrast in it, if I have 20 tasks on my taskbar (Windows XP, classic design), I hardly find the Notepad++ task. Granted, this could be due to my bad eyesight, but e.g. the Firefox tasks are no problem to find because of their clear orange-blue icons.
So why must the Notepad++ icon be white which is almost invisible on the grey taskbar? Why not something clear and distinguishable in RED or GREEN or BLUE or YELLOW?
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Another suggestion concerning the appearance of the taskbar icon:
The taskbar shows the beginning of the filename of the currently activated tab, which is always the same if you have a quite deep directory structure. Thus this information is nearly useless. Why not give the user the possibility to choose what to display here? Useful examples are just "Notepad++" (this way it's clear which program belongs to this icon) or the pure filename without the directoryx structure.
Apart from those minor things, I like Notepad++ more and more and will completely abandon my old editor soon. Great work!
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Hello!
I just switched from the obviously dropped GWD Text Editor to Notepad++ and I liked it immediately after having changed some settings (why the heck have comments the awful non-fixed-width "Comic" font by default?)
But I want to discuss the IMHO badly designed taskbar icon. There is little contrast in it, if I have 20 tasks on my taskbar (Windows XP, classic design), I hardly find the Notepad++ task. Granted, this could be due to my bad eyesight, but e.g. the Firefox tasks are no problem to find because of their clear orange-blue icons.
So why must the Notepad++ icon be white which is almost invisible on the grey taskbar? Why not something clear and distinguishable in RED or GREEN or BLUE or YELLOW?
Another suggestion concerning the appearance of the taskbar icon:
The taskbar shows the beginning of the filename of the currently activated tab, which is always the same if you have a quite deep directory structure. Thus this information is nearly useless. Why not give the user the possibility to choose what to display here? Useful examples are just "Notepad++" (this way it's clear which program belongs to this icon) or the pure filename without the directoryx structure.
Apart from those minor things, I like Notepad++ more and more and will completely abandon my old editor soon. Great work!