For me, the reason I prefer the classic start menue is simply that it is
static.
for instance, over the past 10 or so years I've been on the net, I've worked
out a system of subfolders in my start menue. I have an audiogames folder
with games index by developer, a text games folder for eamon deluxe and if
interpreters, a freeware games folder for my graphical games, a useful
programs folder for avg, 7zip, winamp and other handy stuff etc.
I just much prefer having my stuff liked this, layed out like books in a
library than having context sensative this, last used that, and recommended
the other.
For instance, if I want to play gma tank commander, it doesn't matter when I
last played it, I know! i'll find it under audio games/gma games. Indeed, I
might not actually want! to play the last game I played.
Yes, I could use the search box, but just like brousing a set of book
shelves, I like brousing my game directories and thinking "hay, It's been
ages sinse I last played alien outback, why not give that a bash"
Same with favourites in fact. I have folders for work books, audio games,
online brouser games, online books such as darker projects, scifi resources
with subfolders for Dr. who and startrek etc.
I actually enjoy! individually organizing and collecting them, rather than
having the process automated.
That is why I prefer the classic menue in xp, and would use classic shell in
windows 7.
the other thing I found in windows 7, is that windows explorer was far more
annoying to use, in the way it didn't just put you inside folder subgroups
when you click on a folder, it seemed to have random silly buttons
everywhere, and looking at a folders contents was near impossible!
Just like in my favourites, I have my audio books in folders by author, and
music genre and artist folders that I've organized myself.
When I want to play one, I just wander into my c:\music directory (I never
use my music in my documents, I prefer all my actual music in the one
place), find a folder or a track and play it in winamp.
Indeed sometimes I just bang my entire 70 gb music folder on shuffle in
winamp just for the heck of it :d.
I think this is really my problem with modern ui. I treat my computer as a
literal virtual environment that I myself wish to organize, just the same
way I might organize books or dvds on a shelf, with catagories,
subcatagories and the like that I can quickly reach. Where as microsoft (and
from the sound of it the ubuntu lynux developers), what everything looking
flashy with a bazillion buttons all over the place offering you automated
access to lots of stuff that the computer recommends without having to leave
a single screen, the idea having as much information in the one place and on
the one screen as possible, ----- though from what my sighted friends say
about the ui it doesn't sound like many of them like it much either, though
there are some that go for convenience over organization it is true. However
if this is the case, why couldn't microsoft just have variable ui settings?
The way in xp you could choose! classic or modern menues.
But no, microsoft, the big company is always right as usual.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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