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PoWi

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13/02/2012 Topic: version 1.15 PoWi	WOW - great new features! I'm looking forward. SyMenu is really the best starter menu!
28/03/2012 Topic: Feature request - more compact menu PoWi	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".
29/03/2012 Topic: Feature request - more compact menu PoWi	Yes I know that there is ONE hotkey. I wanted one hotkey for opening SyMenu and another for search. :-)
29/03/2012 Topic: Feature request - more compact menu PoWi	Gianluca, I hope you know that SyMenu is absolutly the best portable menu!
29/03/2012 Topic: Feature request - more compact menu PoWi	But this is "only" a new version of the best.....
15/04/2012 Topic: Feature Request - "Tools" item Placement PoWi	I vote for more hotkeys :-)
15/04/2012 Topic: Easier SyMenuItem.xml access PoWi	I like speed. So Gianluca I will always vote for speed! btw, you're doing a great job with SyMenu!!!!!
17/05/2012 Topic: Features for next SyMenu version 1.17 PoWi	Hi Gianluca, that's really nice that you share your roadmap with us! Thank you very much! There are really good things on the list. I like the new search and also the F2-key for renaming is good. How will I flag an item to be hidden? --- A question to the search feature: The elements are sorted by alphabetic order, right? What about a counter of the starts of each menu item? And if serached the search order could be alphabetic or by starts.
20/06/2012 Topic: Features for next SyMenu version 1.17 PoWi	Hi Gianluca, sorry about answering so late. Here is much work - good and bad ;-) The new version is really great. Many good new features! For me SyMenu is the best poratble menu ever - and now more and more features improve this. That's fantastic. A few things/ideas: In the config dialog: I now use often F2 to edit and then hit "ENTER" -> because I want to save. And then I go to next and make the same. At the end I quit config dialog and nothing saved. So what about using ENTER to save the settings? Number of items execution: ineedh3lp you are right! Thanks for explaining what I mean in a clearer way. The workflow is: I search and I often use the same programs and these should be first - for me. So this feature should be switchable. What I miss in this version is that there is no hotkey for focusing the search directly: One hotkey for opening the menu and second for search focus. That will improve the usage of SyMenu. And what I have to say: The help (at the website) is also absolutely excellent! Cheers PS: @ineedh3lp: Very good pointed review about the new version! Thanks.
20/06/2012 Topic: Features for next SyMenu version 1.17 PoWi	I know and understand the problem with adding more and more features to programs. And I also understand that you want to make SyMenu also easy to use for newbies and also no "power-users". That's very very difficult - puh. On the one side users want features because they use SyMenu (or any other program) and they NEED this new functionality to work efficiently. On the other hand more features blow up config screens and new users are strike dead what they can adjust. That's a problem with all software. I have seen that many programs use 2 config options: 1) new user/simple use and 2) admin/power user. In 1) there are many options hidden that aren't needed for "normal" use. In 2) there is all free to edit. BUT there is still the problem that in 1) the user don't know what he can do in admin-mode. This problem should be solved. An idea: "The options should be hidden - AND a checkbox should be in the dialog to enable/disable admin-mode. So the user could simply decide to see all options but in the first look all is simple and clear." But complexity by adding new features is really a problem - I agree. But stopping adding new wonderfull functionality to keep software simple is also not practicable. What do you suggest? Discuss the config-dialogs and the usecases? Please then start a new subforum for the discussion. edited by PoWi on 6/20/2012 <em>edited by PoWi on 6/20/2012</em>
21/06/2012 Topic: Is SyMenu too complex? PoWi	I surely won't change this approach of enriching SyMenu more and more because it has to become the best program on its category. But I would like to offer a simpler user experience to the new users. Gianluca you are so right with this! ------------------------------- Gianluca I like your idea with the initial wizard AND the 2 config-modes. For the config-modes I think it's better to start a separate thread for each config-dialog. So we all see what options are there and can discuss more easily. Initial wizard: language shortcut for opening SyMenu and the position simple dialog to add exe's search entires in Win-Startmenu NO check for updates (normal users aren't paranoid ;-); they only want to have programs run and don't want to care about) :-) For more the user have to go to config-dialog. <em>edited by PoWi on 6/21/2012</em>
26/06/2012 Topic: Is SyMenu too complex? PoWi	@Gianluca I think first you should know which "usertypes" are using SyMenu and how many. Is it possible to make a poll in this forum? () simple use of SyMenu, please hide features () simple use, but SyMenu is just fine () power user, please make more features <em>edited by PoWi on 6/26/2012</em>
27/06/2012 Topic: Features for next SyMenu version 1.17 PoWi	Gianluca wrote: Hotkey for searching. It seams to me that your idea is a bit different from the previous one. You are proposing to create a shortcut to popup only the search menu without the contextual menu and not simply to create two shortcuts for the search and contextual... interesting. Yes these are 2 different ways to the search. I also support the way with only search field - without the complete menu. You know, if someone searches he/she only want to open a search result.
28/06/2012 Topic: SyMenu Plugin system PoWi	That sounds interesting - and a lot of work for you to implement this plugin system. What will be possible with this? Could you give the community a few ideas?
23/07/2012 Topic: Is SyMenu too complex? PoWi	thinking about what ineedh3lp wrote... I go with him/her.
27/09/2012 Topic: Just after the donwload of the version2 PoWi	I also like the compact view! Thanks. The hotkey for search-field is also included - very nice. But one thing: I use "win + s" and after the hotkey one "s" is in the search-field - not opened empty.
27/09/2012 Topic: Just after the donwload of the version2 PoWi	Gianluca, anything about the plugin-system? What is now included?
27/09/2012 Topic: Just after the donwload of the version2 PoWi	Thanks for the informations.
23/11/2012 Topic: any news about development? PoWi	Hi Gianluca, are there any news about the development of SyMenu? Greatings from Germany
06/02/2013 Topic: suggestion for search PoWi	Now as there ist a hotkey for the search, I often (very often!) use the search function. It's very nice and fast. But one suggestion could enhance the search: After typing in the search field the result list is shown. What about to collect the start-times of each SyMenu-item and sort the resultlist not only by name but also by start-time? With this often used programs are in the list first and faster accessable for the user. I would make this configurable.