Comments on: Finally, no more desktop icons

By: chrysalis

chrysalis — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:30:49 +0000

*nods*

These are good answers. Coolio.

By: jbala

jbala — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:34:46 +0000

*sigh* Last one, I promise. :)

Yes, you can hit Alt-Esc to make all the open windows disappear and then the desktop is visible but I personally still find that tiresome compared to the sliding drawers. And it does nothing to address the inevitable randomization of the desktop icons.

By: jbala

jbala — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:31:34 +0000

Oh, and the Stardock stuff is just way prettier than anything Windows ships with or that MS provides as add-on. :)

By: jbala

jbala — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:30:18 +0000

My Start->Programs menu has 110 items on it and that’s not counting sub-menus. The sliding drawers are insanely more efficient compared to navigating through that quagmire — I get to what I want by dragging the mouse to the left side of the desktop, drawer pops out, I click once on what I want to launch and it happens, and the drawers are categorized (one category per drawer). In the past I’ve tried organizing the icons on the desktop and, inevitably, they get randomized again by something. With 50+ icons on the desktop, fixing this gets old after doing it once and downright annoying after twice.

That, and if you have any program open and maximized you can’t get to the desktop icons to do something else. With the tabs, everything that would otherwise be at least one more semi-annoying click away is right there. More semi-annoying clicks if you have more than one program maximized. Even on a 3GHz machine, the Start->Program menu takes an annoyingly long time to draw because it (stupidly) doesn’t cache the little icons ahead of time.

Anyway, it’s good for me. YMMV.

By: chrysalis

chrysalis — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:20:15 +0000

How are the sliding door tabs different from going to Start —> Programs, where one can re-arrange their Start Menu as they desire?

I’ll admit, I’m not really a fan of messy desktops and find myself continually rearranging my own. I’d probably like the whole sliding tab thing…but I can’t find a way to justify another way of opening the same program.