From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18708 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 15:20:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 18700 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Oct 2011 15:20:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f45.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f45.google.com) (74.125.82.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:20:04 +0000 Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so1500849wwi.2 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:20:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.134.217 with SMTP id s67mr1292866wei.101.1318519203085; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.37.81 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:20:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E96FB84.7000100@alcatel-lucent.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> <4E96FB84.7000100@alcatel-lucent.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Add support for Windows 8, first step From: Chris Sutcliffe To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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/msg00006.txt.bz2 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