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This looks pretty neat, but most features listed are sort of customised clones of standard Windows behavior so I'm not sure it's compelling enough to switch (or
by stinos 7y ago
This looks pretty neat, but most features listed are sort of customised clones of standard Windows behavior so I'm not sure it's compelling enough to switch (or, the explanation isn't doing justice to what it actually does)? For example:
- The Cairo taskbar preserves desktop area for your wallpaper and applications
I think I've yet to see a taskbar which doesn't do that :)
- The list button shows your open windows in an organized, easy to understand layout.
Alt/win-tab isn't a flat list, but I'm not convinced this is faster or easier. Part of this is learning process though: I know the icons of the applications I use most, making alt-tab fast because in a glance I know where to be.
- Never again waste time hunting for applications in poorly organized menus.
Win key and starting to type is usually faster than clicking, at least for me. As another poster mentioned this doesn't seem to always work as good depdning on the exact Windows build, but I've never really had problems and it works well for me, applications/documents/directories I use often are at the top of the list.
- Cairo lets you organize your apps into categories that make sense to you, using an easy drag-and-drop interface.
This is nice, and looks faster than the alternative (pin folder to taskbar as 'toolbar', populate folder with shortcuts).
- Tired of hunting for the same files over and over again, interrupting your work?
No because of win-key + typing, or pinning to taskbar, or fzf or similar in commandline shells. Though I think this might be something which I can only really figure out by trying.
tldr; maybe the front page, or a link on it, should provide some more detail about the features listed?