Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by sliverstorm on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:18PM
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I actually like "Metro Start Menu" better than "Start Menu" for the keyboard. Put simply, "Start Menu" is a tree. Lots of diving into nodes and scrolling up and down. Conceptually convenient and easy with a mouse, but the 2D grid in Metro is more convenient with just a keyboard.
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Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by stan_rogers on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:50PM
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The up/down (navigate vertically in a list) and left/right (enter/leave submenus) arrow keys (which worked on the tree going back to Win95) were hard? Conceptually grouping applications/utilities (sometimes across different task groups) is easier in a 2D tiled environment? Searching obviates discoverability? Sorry, but I don't buy any of it. It was not difficult to drive with the keyboard before and it's no easier now - but a lot has been lost in the transition.
Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by sliverstorm on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:30PM
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I never used the word "hard". I know that the arrow keys can be used to navigate the start menu (how else would I navigate the start menu using the keyboard? Which is clearly what I am talking about), but it has always been more keystrokes to get around the tree-menu than to get around Metro's homescreen.
Is 10 keystrokes instead of 5 keystrokes "hard"? Of course not. I'm not a paraplegic. Notice I used the word "convenient".