From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22082 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 15:27:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 21992 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2011 15:27:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smail2.alcatel.fr (HELO smail2.alcatel.fr) (64.208.49.57) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:27:32 +0000 Received: from FRMRSSXCHHUB01.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com (FRMRSSXCHHUB01.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com [135.120.45.61]) by smail2.alcatel.fr (8.14.3/8.14.3/ICT) with ESMTP id p9DFRSCA020038 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:27:30 +0200 Received: from [151.98.110.34] (135.120.57.7) by FRMRSSXCHHUB01.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com (135.120.45.61) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.137.0; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:27:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4E970362.6030806@alcatel-lucent.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:27:00 -0000 From: Danilo Turina User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step References: <4E949B40.20402@gmail.com> <20111012082643.GA10913@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E95FC38.1090500@gmail.com> <20111013103332.GA18819@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E96EF3F.5040806@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4E96FB84.7000100@alcatel-lucent.com> In-Reply-To: X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20111013172730294 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00008.txt.bz2 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 -- DANILO TURINA ALCATEL-LUCENT Software Analyst NM System Team Network-Optics Rieti (Italy) Phone: +39 0746 600332 10 anni 6 mesi 4 giorni 7 ore 52 minuti 55 secondi