Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoOf course this is a solved problem and has been a solved problem for at least 15 years now. It’s called a flat wide hierarchy. Rather than trying to put everything into categories you just put everything into alphabetical order and then have a search box. Want to change the background, it’s under B for Background, rather than having to go to Display Settings > Customisation > Desktop Background > Custom Background > Select Image
TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Windows already does that. If you type Wallpaper in the search on your task bar, changing your background is at the top. Maybe AI is useful for people who don’t know what the thing they want to do is called? It’s just an extension of flat wide.
Taika@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
If you type Wallpaper in the Windows search bar you’ll likely get bing results for ”Top trendy wallpapers to spice up your living room!”
TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What do you mean likely? You don’t.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The real problem with the search bar is that Microsoft chose to make it language dependent, so you will need to know entirely different search terms to navigate e.g. a German Windows install’s settings that way than an English one.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Well sort of, you’re right that they’ve introduced a search bar but that’s all they’ve done. It’s all still broken down into fairly arbitrarily arrived at categories it’s not in alphabet order, or in fact any real order.
Sound settings are under peripherals for god’s sake. I mean sure okay speakers are a peripheral I guess but when you say peripheral you think things like webcams, not basic IO.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Is I/O in this context input/output? I’ve seen it used this way before but I’m not super techie so no clue.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It is, yes.