- Messages
- 4,373
- Location
- Hafnarfjörður IS
Hi all
It seems to me that this is one area needs a bit of working on -- if you have an application that has loads of sub menus -- so that in total you might have 30 choices then the entire 30 are shown up on the metro panels meaning you have to right scroll forever to get to the option you want.
IMO the metro tiles / panels should have the MAIN Menu with the titles of the sub menus and when you click on a sub menu it should operate like the "Old fashioned" way and give you a list of your choices.
Difficult to explain but basically if you have software
application ---->configuration-> options1
options2
options3
->uninstall ->etc1
->features_a -> etc2
->features_b -> etc3
->Exit
Instead of the tiles giving the whole kybosh we should get the top level application
then it should expand as required.
If you've installed a lot of applications (I've got as many running now on W8 as I had on a daily use W7 system) the number of panels is getting totally absurd !!!. It's NOT a mobile phone where you can just flip each section on to the main phone panel like a smart phone.
I've had to make some desktop short cuts from the desktop application -- that's not what I want --If I want W7 I'll run W7 -- no point in "cloning" W8 to look like W7 otherwise what's the point.
I quite like the metro ui idea (and I'm not a youngster) but it definitely needs more work on it to be incorporated in a fully blown Workstation or desktop OS running a whole slew of different applications.
Cheers
jimbo
It seems to me that this is one area needs a bit of working on -- if you have an application that has loads of sub menus -- so that in total you might have 30 choices then the entire 30 are shown up on the metro panels meaning you have to right scroll forever to get to the option you want.
IMO the metro tiles / panels should have the MAIN Menu with the titles of the sub menus and when you click on a sub menu it should operate like the "Old fashioned" way and give you a list of your choices.
Difficult to explain but basically if you have software
application ---->configuration-> options1
options2
options3
->uninstall ->etc1
->features_a -> etc2
->features_b -> etc3
->Exit
Instead of the tiles giving the whole kybosh we should get the top level application
then it should expand as required.
If you've installed a lot of applications (I've got as many running now on W8 as I had on a daily use W7 system) the number of panels is getting totally absurd !!!. It's NOT a mobile phone where you can just flip each section on to the main phone panel like a smart phone.
I've had to make some desktop short cuts from the desktop application -- that's not what I want --If I want W7 I'll run W7 -- no point in "cloning" W8 to look like W7 otherwise what's the point.
I quite like the metro ui idea (and I'm not a youngster) but it definitely needs more work on it to be incorporated in a fully blown Workstation or desktop OS running a whole slew of different applications.
Cheers
jimbo
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Linux Centos 7, W8.1, W7, W2K3 Server W10
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1 X LG 40 inch TV
- Hard Drives
- SSD's * 3 (Samsung 840 series) 250 GB
2 X 3 TB sata
5 X 1 TB sata
- Internet Speed
- 0.12 GB/s (120Mb/s)