I've been in a bad mood all day. I blame Win8 .. i find myself swearing at the screen more... with unfinished questions like "...how do i...what the fu...oh..there...well thats stupid..oh crap what did i just do..."
I'm not going to write a poem about Win8 and i'm not going to declare a Jihad on Microsoft for making it.. i'm simply thinking that its Windows 7 with this stupid start screen giving me a sense of paranoia at all that ram that i shouldn't be wasting but am.. (even though I'm not even sure its being wasted it just feels its being wasted and..and I dont like change..now get off my lawn). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Glen Harvy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Ian. Things are certainly hotting up in the new/updated MS program > world. > > So far two people have explained how Win8 Application navigation works and > now this so it is becoming clear that I wasn't clear in the first place. > Probably my pathetic attempt at using ozzie colloquialisms and assumptions > ... <sigh>. > > It is IMHO, far to early to foretell if the *general public* will quickly > adapt to the new navigation. Having only used Win8 RTM on my VM and only to > test my own application, I'm certainly not qualified to make any educated > guesses. I do know that the new navigation did not immediately impress me > with it's ease but I readily accept we have a whole new concept in Win8 and > I will have to change my ways as well as my program. > > I do however believe that until my application evolves and adapts to the > changing times, *my end users will appreciate* what in effect is *a two > click start of either my Main program or any of its Secondary programs*. > > This should be easy to achieve by creating a Metro Inspired application > that does nothing else but open a full screen window with a tile/shortcut > to each of those programs. If the new Metro Inspired application is pinned > to the Start Screen (not the Start Menu) then the end user will only need > to click twice from the Start Screen rather than type anything on the > keyboard to start a Secondary program from the All Apps screen. > Alternatively, they can use the new Metro navigation technique as I will > support that as well. > > The creation of the new Metro inspired application should take me not much > longer than a few minutes if you believe the sales pitch from DevExpress > :-) Designing the Tiles background image will take me days although > perhaps Blend will come to the rescue. > > I hope the above clarifies my original post. I would appreciate comments > as to whether you believe there is a need to even bother with implementing > the above and/or if it will prove as easy to implement as it sounds? > > Thanks, > > Glen. > >
