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No, the intention is to quickly start something without distracting from the main screen. There is no sane reason to go fullscreen here, if i have Writer open a
by buster 12y ago
No, the intention is to quickly start something without distracting from the main screen. There is no sane reason to go fullscreen here, if i have Writer open and want to start a calculator or MSN or whatever other app.
I needed a few trials until i found where to shut down that stupid OS (and eventually installed the classic menu).
Interestingly i have a touchscreen laptop but on my main OS (Linux) i went the complete opposite direction lately, with a much more keyboard-driven setup, no fancy animations.
Basically a distraction-free work machine, and not the colorful, animation-loaded distraction "beast" Windows has become.
- TTPrograms 12y agoI think the function of the windows key, where a menu pops up in the right and you can type out the application name, is what you want for that purpose. Ubuntu does the same thing. I'm pretty keyboard-centric myself, and this works really well for me. The fullscreen start menu is nice when you forget the exact name of the application, IMO.
- nknighthb 12y ago> Ubuntu does the same thing. And Ubuntu has similarly turned into an example of what not to do. This fad of cramming a touch UI down the throat of mouse users and acting like it's all perfectly natural is obscene.
- TTPrograms 12y agoI'm talking specifically about a feature that enables fast keyboard access to applications. I don't see how that has anything to do with mouse or touch UI. Ubuntu's UI has its own issues, but that's not the point.
- jiggy2011 12y agoSynapse does a good job of this , but doesn't require the entire screen.
- TTPrograms 12y agoAh, I wasn't on my windows computer when I checked it. I guess the standard windows key does go to fullscreen. The fast, small one is Win+S. It would be nice to be able to switch them.