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> 2. type (typically) three letters of the program you want to run Unless what you want to run is, for example, "Internet Explorer": "Inte" will auto-complete
by alxlaz 8y ago
> 2. type (typically) three letters of the program you want to run
Unless what you want to run is, for example, "Internet Explorer": "Inte" will auto-complete to nothing useful if you have a bunch of apps, "Interne" will auto-complete to Internet Explorer, but "Internet" will auto-complete to Edge. Not exactly convenient.
Besides: it's full of ads, and it takes bloody ages to find an application in a list where every item is touch-sized and which doesn't expand to fill your screen. The keyboard entry became necessary because the new structure is impossible to navigate visually (for bonus points, while this structure is supposed to be better for touch interfaces, that's precisely where it sucks even more, because "just type three letters of the program you want to run" isn't too convenient on touch-only devices).
There are environments which manage to get this surprisingly right, such as LXQT: you have a hierarchical menu which is easy to navigate, but if you're faster with keyboard-based search, you can do that as well.
Plus, you know, to us ol' Unix farts, not having to type stuff in order to launch a program is what progress is supposed to look like. If thirty years of UX research gave us the equivalent of bash and tab completion, we might as well go all the way and replace the start menu thingie with a terminal and call it a day.
Edit: also, I don't know what kind of super workstation hardware you're on, but I'd hardly call that thing "realtime-responsive" :-).
- szatkus 8y agoTo be honest it worked much better in Vista/7, but still I find it more convenient to just press the meta key and type whatever I need or just use mouse because usually what I'm looking for is at Recently Added or Most Used section. In the Linux world I think that Plasma nailed that feature.
- mavhc 8y agoI assume Win 10 start menu search adapts to what you click on, because start>i gives inkscape, in inkscape, int internet explorer
- codebolt 8y ago> Unless what you want to run is, for example, "Internet Explorer": "Inte" will auto-complete to nothing useful if you have a bunch of apps, "Interne" will auto-complete to Internet Explorer, but "Internet" will auto-complete to Edge. Not exactly convenient. I realize this may not be very intuitive for most people, but in the case of Internet Explorer I would instincitively just type "ie" because I know the name of the executable.
- dep_b 8y agoI used WIN+R nameofexe since 1995 at least. So not so much progress in 20 year
- SubiculumCode 8y agoBecause half the time it finds and launches the install executable
- gsich 8y ago"int" does autocomplete to "Internet Explorer" here.
- jmkni 8y ago> Besides: it's full of ads You can turn all of these off, with a combination of registry/GP fixes. Granted, they should be off by default, especially on Professional/Enterprise, but at least you can do it. - https://superuser.com/a/1348759/100543 https://superuser.com/a/1348759/100543