Are all WPF Programs Usability Bad?
3 Sep
I have yet to run to into a usable program written in WPF. I tried another one out this morning and it barely ran. Is there a WPF based application that isn’t a mess?
The most notable WPF program that I have tried is the twitter client blu by thirteen23.com. It seems like the only WPF programs I have come across are twitter clients.
Most of the WPF programs I have tried seem to have the following issues in common that make them unusable for me personally.
- There don’t seem to be any keyboard shortcuts which drives me nuts.
- The font sizes are to small and the fonts look awful, they are blurry and hard to read.
- The interface design is way over the top, yet poorly implement. Interface elements will overlap and don’t layout correctly.
The first and third items in my list seem like they should be blamed on the developers but I have never seen a program developed for another platform with these issues. Number 2 should be blamed on WPF as I believe there is a framework fix for this coming in the next version of .Net.
These problems make me inclined to avoid trying to use anything written in WPF and to certainly avoid trying to develop anything with it.
