Hi Dark,
Grin. Strange partitioned Start Menu?
Sorry, I just had to laugh because I happen to love the new Start Menu
setup. I like the fact on the left pain all of my frequently used apps
are right there so I don't have to go through the Programs Menu to find
the icons to start a program. Plus on the right pain I have my home
directory, Documents, Videos, Music, Pictures, etc so I can click on the
icon and go directly to the type of files I want. Plus the new Search
bar acts like the Run dialog so all I have to do is type Wordpad press
enter and it launches Wordpad. I personally think it is awesome!
Yeah, I know you don't like it but I think it is a huge improvement over
the classic Start Menu. (I would never go back to the classic Start Menu
because I personally feel the new U.I. is an improvement.
As it happens other operating systems are adopting this type of Start
Menu setup as well. For example, Ubuntu's new Unity desktop has a search
box called the Dash.If you hit the Windows key it brings up a search
box, and typing gedit, audacity, firefox, thunderbird, etc in it and
press enter it will launch the program or open the specified file in the
default application. Pressing alt+f1 takes you to the Unity launcher
panel where the most commonly used apps are so you can launch Firefox,
Thunderbird, Gedit, Audacity, Libre Writer, etc from there as well. So
even Linux is becoming more like Windows 7 in many ways.
Cheers!
On 3/11/2012 10:19 AM, dark wrote:
From what I've heard, classic shell basically gives you a windows xp
style start menue and explorer in windows 7, rather than those weerd
folders that go on forever and the strange partitianed start menue
windows 7 has.
As to windwos 8 and interface, well I'm not sure sinse I've not seen
it at all, though i have heard it does remove both ribbons and will
apparently have better compatibility with 16 bit applications sinse
microsoft have gotten into trouble over that one.
I certainly wouldn't look at using it as an os now, not in it's
current beta state, but hopefuly my xp machine will keep going for a
good while yet.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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