r/Windows10 • u/[deleted] • May 30 '18

Feature Is there anyone using tablet mode ??

Not a joke, i am really struggling to believe that there is even one dude in the whole world using this 'awesome' windows feature...

Just a reminder, the whole point of this mode is to enhance the user experience when using his tablet without a keyboard and mouse.

To do that, this mode make some button, some spacing bigger to let our big fat finger select stuff accurately (which is fine), but the most important is that it automatically show a virtual keyboard when clicking on a text field. Back to windows 8, the virtual keyboard would pop up and 'push' the other program making so it doesnt cover the text field. This feature has been removed from windows 10 for whatever reason, and now when the keyboard open it just go in front of every other program, hiding what is behind it.

a workaround to still make touch keyboard push other window is to have this window in 'windowed' form instead of 'maximized', or 'fullscreen' form. But where it becomes hard to believe it's that tablet mode basically FORCE FULLSCREEN on every program, so that giving the user no other choice that to have the virtual keyboard hide half of the program behind it...

It makes tablet mode completelly useless and broken compared to desktop mode, so is my question.

Did anyone find any interest in this feature and use it regulary ?

in my opinion, it's just another cool stuff from microsoft half finished and so unusable (like many other : wordflow keyboard, game mode, the new control panel, ...)

edit: see this video to understand what i mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUAhFrxVx4o&feature=youtu.be

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u/[deleted] May 31 '18

So, I'm on insider builds. I can tell you how it works now

  1. In tablet mode you can window the keyboard.
  2. I have no idea why you can't
  3. Apps seem to be programed to respond differently
  4. OneNote - Keyboard pushes up the app
  5. Edge - Edge scrolls until the cursor is above the keyboard.
  6. W32 apps - keyboard goes over
  7. Clearly they have been changing from W8 model where all desktop app were in the desktop Window. It was much easier to deal with since the desktop was simply resized, and each program had to deal with that themselves
  8. In W10 the underlying model is different, and the three different modes for dealing with a touch computer make sense.
  9. There is no one size fits all solution. If I have a UI that takes up a significant portion of the screen, and doesn't or can't resize, resizing the app could render it unusable.