Re: display is too small
Re: display is too small
A big ado about nothing.
1. The programs at the start menu are alphabetized and therefore easy to
use. As far as I remember, the start menu in XP was a nightmare. It was a
long list of programs, NOT alphabetized at all. They were packed in the
order of received.
2. This youngster's (Nazarenko's) idea is not a news at all. It's been
around for years. Perhaps in this particular application to the start menu
it is somewhat of a meager novelty but this does not constitute an
invention. MS could have used this without getting in any trouble at all.
There are many MS applications that use this scaling method of parent-child
Context Menu Strips as they are called (ContextMenuStrip class).
3. I have no trouble at all to ***READ*** the menu. All items in
alphabetical order.
4. When the start menu becomes too large, perhaps over 25 items it is a good
time to check the inventory and find out if you really need all of them.
That was my problem with XP. I could not clean the start menu since I never
bothered to find out if it was possible. It was huge and unwieldy. It was a
nuisance.
> All microsoft needed was to BUY ...
Two paragraphs beginning with this clause is a pure senseless ranting. The
guys has an ax to grind and his histrionic discourse shows it.
"On the Bridge!" <On@the,Bridge> wrote in message
news:47cc5f37@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>I know why MS changed the start menu... so what was their solution to
>confusion? HIDE IT and make it searchable because navigating in that small
>area inside the start menu is worse than looking for a needle in a hey
>stack.
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> Can you say BAD SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM? I Can!
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> So now what do we have, a usless list of programs, and the need to TYPE
> (for crying out load) the program you want to launch. I dont think you
> realise how bad this is.
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> See my nice start menu in XP,
> http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/840/startmenuxpen9.jpg
> see how nice and organised it is?... is this hard to navigate? NOPE, its
> clean and fast... I did this manually of course but see here a util that
> does this for the novice
>
> http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtml
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> All microsoft needed was to BUY this guys idea off of him (not steal it)
> and impliment it in to a wizard, or better yet make it into an automated
> task.... Like linux knows where each program goes, an online database
> could be constructed that would categorize all the already existing
> programs according to its nature into subgroups.
> All the developer or even a (microsoft employee or memeber of a microsoft
> community can do this) had to do then was to log into an account and chose
> the category it wants vista to put it in, the start menu then vista would
> read the database and put the program in order, this for the old apps. For
> the new apps the developers would chose before hand one of the default
> subcagegories. SIMPLE AND ELEGANT.
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> MUST I ANALYZE FURTHER? Yes... the human mind works best when it can
> visualy reproduce pathways that are logically structured. When you have a
> diagonal (staircased) pathway the brian memorizes this and can reproduce
> the motion to launch the program faster the next time. But when you have a
> menu that collapses upon itself, there is no pathway... only up and down
> motion that cannot be remembered by the brain and learned to reproduce
> automatically, the result is the need to READ the menu, this of course
> slows down the use of it.
>
> Must I corner you in all the things we are talking about? Because I know
> im right and I can prove them...
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> "dzomlija" <dzomlija.35pok0@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
> news:dzomlija.35pok0@no-mx.forums.net...
>>
>> On the Bridge!;633357 Wrote:
>>> So users wanted a start menu that collapses upon itself, or an UAC thats
>>> in their face 1000 times a day or a defrag with no visual feedback or..
>>> wait! The crap is so much.. I will need days to list the stupid things
>>> that vista has.
>>
>> Then please, feel free to compile this list of yours that will
>> supposedly take days, and perhaps you can give us all a break by not
>> posting for a while until it's ready.
>>
>> But as for the "colapsing start menu", it was designed as such because
>> many users found the cascading menu difficult to navigate. Also, the new
>> style start menu facilitates its integration into the new Search Index,
>> making it easier to find those "hard-to-find" items.
>>
>> We as users didn't specifically ask for UAC. What we wanted was a more
>> secure way of preventing improper system changes by either ourselves, or
>> by malware. UAC was the solution.
>>
>> If you happen to see UAC prompts 1000 times a day, then you're spending
>> too much time inappropriately changing system settings and adding or
>> removing software - as opposed to actually using the computer for
>> something productive. If I where to count the UAC prompts I get, I'd be
>> amazed if I got 3 or 4 in a month!
>>
>> And just to clear things up, I personally believe that UAC still isn't
>> tight enough, and that some parts of the system are still vulnerable
>> because. Buts it's a step in the right direction into making a properly
>> secure operating system.
>>
>> On the Bridge!;633357 Wrote:
>>> NO these are only the STUPID BAD SOLUTIONS MS gave to the feedback and
>>> then went ahead and implemenetd the solutions they thought were good
>>> *but were stupid*.. they never asked the very thing Chris is saying:
>>> Like here is what we are thinking of doing, do you agree with it? LOL
>>
>> I read the article referenced by the original post, including the
>> article that itself was referencing - and the only logical conclusion
>> that I have is that both you and Chris have not taken the time to fully
>> grasp the benefits of the changes made to the OS.
>>
>> On the Bridge!;633357 Wrote:
>>> Everything about vista shows its the most user unfriendly OS since win.
>>> 3.1 how can some people actually like it, amazes me!
>>
>> Spend a little more of your time actually doing some productive work,
>> and less time ranting about your own shortcomings, and maybe you'd begin
>> to understand that Vista IS faster, more reliable, more secure and more
>> compatible than any of the previous versions of Windows.
>>
>>
>> --
>> dzomlija
>>
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