SyMenu - General discussion & questions - Feature request - more compact menu - Messages

Message from olivier59

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:24:52 GMT

Thanks for the compact mode in version 2.0 !

It was just I looking for (I will just prefer the exit option in the compact menu too)

Message from Coastie

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:51:34 GMT

great. I already use symenu as the start menu replacement in Win7, so having it in win8 as the only menu will be just fine. Plan to just use the desktop in Win8, and avoid what used to be called the metro UI whenever possible.

Message from Gianluca

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:56:53 GMT

Hi Coastie.
I've already tested SyMenu with a pre-release version of Win8 and all works well.
There is no integration with the metro UI in SyMenu but it seems it is not a problem because Win8 guarantee backwards compatibility.
If anyone detects some compatibility issue with Win8 please let me know.

Message from Coastie

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:45:59 GMT

looks nice, thanks.
Any idea about Win8 compatibility?

Message from Gianluca

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:14:06 GMT

We will have a new feature for the next version: compact menu!
In the image a nearly definitive design.

Message from Gianluca

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:25:00 GMT

Hi Oliver59
I know.... But don't lose faith, sooner or later I'll do that.

Message from olivier59

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:01:05 GMT

Version 1.17 : "It is now possible to hide elements (shortcut F3). An hided item become invisible in contextual menu and in the search but exists and is visible in configuration form"

But you still can not hide sysmenu items (or reorganize/move them)
edited by olivier59 on 6/26/2012

Message from PoWi

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:34:30 GMT

But this is "only" a new version of the best.....

Message from Gianluca

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:13:55 GMT

You only say this because you haven't seen the new version yet!!!!!

Message from PoWi

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:10:40 GMT

Gianluca, I hope you know that SyMenu is absolutly the best portable menu!

Message from Gianluca

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:23:17 GMT

Ok now I understand.
I add this on my (giant) TODO list

Message from PoWi

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:44:33 GMT

Yes I know that there is ONE hotkey. I wanted one hotkey for opening SyMenu and another for search. :-)

Message from Gianluca

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:02:26 GMT

Hi PoWi.

The hot key you mentioned already exists... Go to the options in configuration form, tab "Hot keys", enable "Shortcut manager" and check the flag on "Set focus on search bar".

I already thought to make the search sensible to any string even the ones inside the name, but it generates too much mess. I can create a custom option for this so if you can choose the behavior of the search.
edited by Gianluca on 3/29/2012

Message from PoWi

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:38:08 GMT

Hi Gianluca,

my SyMenu is much much bigger than Oliviers'.

I also have a suggestion for menus with really much items and folders inside:
Make a hotkey to jump directly to the "search". So after hotkey the user can easily type inside the searchfield.
BUT "PortableFirefox" should also be found after typing "firefox".

Message from Gianluca

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:22:46 GMT

Hi Olivier.

I could implement a new option to choose among the normal view and the compat one but I need to study the problem before.
Anyway the implementation could be included in 1.17 version because 1.16 will be released in a few days.

Thank for your suggestion.

Message from olivier59

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:44:35 GMT

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your great application

Could you make a more compact menu view to hide SyMenu items which are not used often.
So giving us a fastest acces to our applications.

I mean instead to have the menu item "Exit", we could have a container "SyMenu" with follwing Options (removed from main menu) :
- Run Item (OpenFolder/Item properties/Run as)
- Tools-> Configuration, Enable, ...
- Exit

And remove the title "SyMenu" on top of the main menu.
And add an option to hide "Search items".

See attached file.

Regards,
Olivier