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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
ALCATEL-LUCENT
Software Analyst
NM System Team
Network-Optics
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4E949B40.20402@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20111012082643.GA10913@calimero.vinschen.de>
     [not found]   ` <4E95FC38.1090500@gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20111013103332.GA18819@calimero.vinschen.de>
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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