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This is, in my opinion, the most unfortunate thing about just replacing the start _menu_ with the start _screen_. We have nearly 2 decades of software installa
by daigoba66 12y ago
This is, in my opinion, the most unfortunate thing about just replacing the start _menu_ with the start _screen_.
We have nearly 2 decades of software installations that were designed with a hierarchical folder/menu layout in mind, including all of Microsoft's own development tools. Now it's changed and there is no more hierarchy.
My start screen is pages upon pages of shortcuts to HTML/text docs, CHM files, cmd prompts, uninstallers, helper programs, etc. You can't find anything because the hierarchy is gone, and as the parent describes you can't search for many of these things because everything has the same name or is inconsistently named.
It's telling that Microsoft's own software installation still isn't revised to take this into consideration.
- vanderZwan 12y agoThe thing is, the information that was stored in the hierarchy is still kinda represented: folder names are used as separator labels. It's just that that is not enough. It shouldn't be impossible to find an elegant, workable compromise that uses both the look of the new UI while maintaining hierarchical folder information of the old.