From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5271 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 14:30:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 4354 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2011 14:29:52 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:29:34 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id BC2AF2CBDB1; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:29:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:30:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step Message-ID: <20111013142931.GA22453@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <4E949B40.20402@gmail.com> <20111012082643.GA10913@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E95FC38.1090500@gmail.com> <20111013103332.GA18819@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E96EF3F.5040806@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E96EF3F.5040806@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q4/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On Oct 13 10:01, 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!!! That's why I'm using Xfce4, not Gnome 3. If Xfce5 goes the same route, there's still LXDE. So far. Corinna