From: Danilo Turina <danilo.turina@alcatel-lucent.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E970362.6030806@alcatel-lucent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGHJv4dtH=1o0zTnoCuuUwLum8pCsuhQtaNV6Yk9AN-Anu-NnA@mail.gmail.com>
On 13/10/2011 17.20, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 13 October 2011 10:53, Danilo Turina wrote:
>> 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.
> Playing devil's advocate, what about the times when you don't know the
> name of the application?
That's why I use the start menu once in a week (at most).
> With respect to using command line (which is
> essentially what you are doing), it works for power users, but what
> about people who like to point-and-click?
No, it's not the command line, you get the command line with Win+R.
The thing I get is more like Google for the start menu (with Launchy on
XP) and Google for the "most interesting places" of the PC (on 7).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
Ciao,
Danilo
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DANILO TURINA
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2011-10-13 14:02 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-13 14:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-13 19:38 ` David Sastre
2011-10-16 3:50 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2011-10-13 14:33 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-13 14:48 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-13 14:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-10-13 14:54 ` Danilo Turina
2011-10-13 15:20 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-13 15:27 ` Danilo Turina [this message]
2011-10-13 15:21 ` David Eisner
2011-10-13 15:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
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