[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Windows start menu items

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Þann mið 30.nóv 2011 06:48, skrifaði Lionel Elie Mamane:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:07:16PM +0100, Andras Timar wrote:
>
>> A user reported the following issue:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43259
>
>> "The entries in LibreOffice's Start Menu folder all begin with the word
>> 'LibreOffice', e.g. 'LibreOffice Base', 'LibreOffice Calc'.  Surely this word
>> is superfluous, since they are entries in a folder named 'LibreOffice ...'?
>> This is not just a cosmetic issue: it means that the user cannot start Impress,
>> for example, simply by pressing the 'I' key in this menu folder - instead you
>> need multiple presses of the 'L' or down-arrow keys, followed by return. "
>

Is this search behaviour default in Windows XP ? Seems that 
Vista/Win7 behave differently (see the following response):

>
> Yes and no. The Vista / Windows 7 search box in the start menu
> effectively flattens that out again. I (and I feel a significant part
> of users) don't navigate the hierarchy, but type what they want in the
> search box (even stronger, to me this has made a graphical start menu
> usable for me; I would eschew it before). The search results do not
> indicate where they sit in the hierarchy, they are just shown
> flat. Typing "bas" will bring up "LibreOffice Base". Typing "libr"
> will show all LibreOffice entries. I feel this is the optimal user
> experience with Windows Vista or 7.
>
> It is *very* convenient for me that the product name is included
> there, as I have multiple versions installed: OO.org 3.2, LibreOffice
> 3.4 and a daily snapshot. The entries from the daily snapshot are
> labelled e.g. "LibO-dev Base". If both the released version and the
> daily snapshot were named just "Base", I would have a very hard time
> to choose which one to launch.

But is there a tooltip with the full name when hovering over 
the item ?

> So, as a compromise to Windows XP users, maybe the released version
> would have just "Base", but the daily snapshots keep the "LibO"
> prefix? Windows Vista/7 users loose the ability to type "libr" and see
> all LibreOffice choices, but they can navigate the hierarchy for that.

Still there's a problem if you have installed both 
LibreOffice 3.2 and 3.4...

>

Just curious, I don't have those versions of Windows on my 
systems.

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