stelian88 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) Hello ! Thank you for your really usefull and awesome StartIsBack It's help me to like Windows 8 ^^But, recently, I got some ideas, that I think can improve StartIsBack+, and make Start menu and ModernUI merge better.Here some screens I made : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/azbgn2xb56j7625/x72l0l-pMuIn brief, make possible the displaying of desktop applications on the ModernUI interface. I think it's a good idea, and this can help the most recalcitrant user to go on Win8 !Thank you (Sorry if my english is bad, I'm french )Good idea!I saw pictures,something very similar to retro ui.Now i hope to take into account Tihiy Edited November 30, 2013 by stelian88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRL Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Know what else SiB needs that Windows 7 had? Remember how you used to be able to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER while highlighting an item in the start menu or start menu search to run the application as an administrator? Well, personally I think that needs to be brought back as well. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender` Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Know what else SiB needs that Windows 7 had? Remember how you used to be able to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER while highlighting an item in the start menu or start menu search to run the application as an administrator? Well, personally I think that needs to be brought back as well.That has always worked just fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsymon Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Know what else SiB needs that Windows 7 had? Remember how you used to be able to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER while highlighting an item in the start menu or start menu search to run the application as an administrator? Well, personally I think that needs to be brought back as well.Actually, it works on StartIsBack+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRL Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Yeah you guys are right it does work. Now anyhow. Don't know what I done earlier... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tihiy Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 But, recently, I got some ideas, that I think can improve StartIsBack+, and make Start menu and ModernUI merge better.Here some screens I made : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/azbgn2xb56j7625/x72l0l-pMu1) Replace desktop with start screen.- How would you use start screen where you can't do things which you can do on a desktop?- How would you access desktop files and folders?2) Overlay metro apps with desktop apps, start menu and taskbar- That would look terrible unless you put consistent design on all stuff. Translucency will be awful unless hand-tuned.3) Hot corners and metro apps on taskbar.- What use of top-left and bottom-left edge will be for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsymon Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 (edited) I imagined what I suggest as an option, that you can enable or disable. If you want to use the desktop only, you can To answers to your questions :1 - I don't see what you can do an the desktop, except a right-click ... And I don't have any icons on my desktop, just the trash.So, is for that I suggest that, it's because I don't use my deskop at all and I want to use ModernUI, but with a start menu. For who want to do the same, it's could be a very usefull option.2 - I don't think that would look terrible, as you said, at last personaly. And for the translucency, I don't know of it's hard to implements :/3 - Why not completly disabled top and bottom left corners, they will be useless finally !Voila ! As I said, it's just some ideas I got, and it's can be improve. Tell me what you think of that Edited November 30, 2013 by bsymon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stelian88 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 I imagined what I suggest as an option, that you can enable or disable. If you want to use the desktop only, you can To answers to your questions :1 - I don't see what you can do an the desktop, except a right-click ... And I don't have any icons on my desktop, just the trash.So, is for that I suggest that, it's because I don't use my deskop at all and I want to use ModernUI, but with a start menu. For who want to do the same, it's could be a very usefull option.2 - I don't think that would look terrible, as you said, at last personaly. And for the translucency, I don't know of it's hard to implements :/3 - Why not completly disabled top and bottom left corners, they will be useless finally !Voila ! As I said, it's just some ideas I got, and it's can be improve. Tell me what you think of that I do not agree with nr 3 = 3 - Why not completly disabled top and bottom left corners, they will be useless finally ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsymon Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Mmh ... The solution could be to put an option to enable or disable these corners, and everyone is happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tihiy Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 StartIsBack +1.5 BETA 3http://www.startisback.com/StartIsBackPlus_setupBETA.exe- StartIsBack upgrade no longer may require reboot / uninstall- Multi-monitor settings are now in separate page (if you have multiple monitors or run "startisbackcfg /mutimon")- Modern apps are not shown in search if neither modern recent apps nor folder are enabled- Optimizations for 'not using start menu' scenario (bottom-left screen edge - original start button enabled): * Start menu is not loaded into memory until used * Original start button opens start menu on mouse wheel click or when swiped up (on touchscreen) * Original start button works on taskbar on start screen as expected- Minor UI changes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender` Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 (edited) I'm not sure if you noticed, but TrendMicro insists that StartIsBack+ download URL is malicious (check here). Not the file itself, nor the site, just the download URL. I suggest you tell them to reclassify the URL, and put a warning (that TM is broken and should be disabled to download the file) on the download page - in my experience, that's the fastest way to get AV companies to actually do something about false positives. Edited December 1, 2013 by ender` Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tihiy Posted December 1, 2013 Author Share Posted December 1, 2013 I suggest you tell them to reclassify the URLI've done that a dozen times and didn't get any reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender` Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 I've done that a dozen times and didn't get any reply.Then put a warning that TrendMicro sucks on the download page - that usually works much better than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stelian88 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 wow! startisback+ 1.5 beta3 translated in Romanian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcge Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Is there an option to hide this Administrative Tools folder from the All Programs section of the Start menu in StartIsBack+ ? I'm currently using v1.0.5.No, but you can right-click it - Properties - set Hidden - Apply to this folder only. I don't think there will be a checkbox for that, one checkbox too many.Thanks, that worked, and thank you for this great program!Didn't the old StartIsBack for Windows 8 have this option? It's ok without it, beause it's easy to hide manually now that I know how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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