Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step

[Danilo Turina <danilo dot turina at alcatel-lucent dot com>]

On 13/10/2011 16.01, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 6:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > (*) I really hope Microsoft doesn't remove the old start menu entirely
> >      from the OS.  The new GUI which is supposed to replace the start
> >      menu is only useful for tablets and playing, but not for serious
> >      work, IMO.
>
> I only hope Gnome/Fedora/Red Hat doesn't remove the old start menu
> entirely from the OS.  The new GUI which is supposed to replace the
> start menu is only useful for tablets and playing, but not for serious
> work, IMO.
>
>
> I only hope Ubuntu doesn't remove the old start menu entirely from the
> OS.  The new GUI which is supposed to replace the start menu is only
> useful for tablets and playing, but not for serious work, IMO.
>
>
> Somebody PLEASE tell these people that not EVERYTHING is going to become
> a tablet!!!
>
> --
> Chuck
Well, in WinXP I've (almost) stopped using the start menu after 
installing Launchy.

In Win7 I use the start menu once in a week at most, while I use the... 
uhm... can't remember the name, but, anyway, that text box that appears 
when you press the Win key (and that is somewhat similar in behavior to 
Launchy (and yes it's included in the start menu, but I don't consider 
it really part of the start menu)) and, sometimes, the desktop.

The start menu is just slow when you can press a key or a combination of 
keys and then the first chars of the name of the application that you want.

Ciao,
    Danilo

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DANILO TURINA
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