{"id":5861,"date":"2012-06-01T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:47:07","slug":"huge-icons-in-windows-8-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5861-huge-icons-in-windows-8-metro.html","title":{"rendered":"Huge icons in Windows 8 Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the SkyDrive Metro-style app running on my 1280 x 1024 desktop, in its default view. Note that each icon is 185 x 211 px. The actual title of each document is in relatively small text though still readable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my slate I only get two rows per screen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can set it to Detail view which gives nine rows on the desktop display and six rows on the slate.<\/p>\n<p>Touch-friendly, undoubtedly, but is this really best-practice design? What if you have lots of documents in a folder? I suppose it is just swipe-swipe-swipe, not helped by the fact that the SkyDrive app cannot be searched:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>nor is there any way that I can see to sort the documents, say by last modified.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you can do all these things in the touch-hostile desktop application.<\/p>\n<p>Both the app and Windows 8 itself are pre-release so may improve, but I would like to see a smarter approach to browsing and selecting documents in Windows 8 Metro-style.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Windows 8, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/06\/01\/windows_8_rc_review\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> on The Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the SkyDrive Metro-style app running on my 1280 x 1024 desktop, in its default view. Note that each icon is 185 x 211 px. The actual title of each document is in relatively small text though still readable. On my slate I only get two rows per screen: You can set it to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5861-huge-icons-in-windows-8-metro.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huge icons in Windows 8 Metro<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,97],"tags":[580,586,832,996],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows","tag-metro","tag-microsoft","tag-skydrive","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}