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From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.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 15:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGHJv4dtH=1o0zTnoCuuUwLum8pCsuhQtaNV6Yk9AN-Anu-NnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E96FB84.7000100@alcatel-lucent.com>

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?  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?

Cheers,

Chris

-- 
Chris Sutcliffe
http://emergedesktop.org
http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 15:20 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 [this message]
2011-10-13 15:27             ` Danilo Turina
2011-10-13 15:21           ` David Eisner
2011-10-13 15:41             ` Corinna Vinschen

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