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  • Years spent building structures with software that's becoming obsolete.

    From Mike Halmarack@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 12 12:30:51 2023
    Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
    at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
    10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

    My main problem though is with Dexpot, the best virtual desktop app
    for Window I ever found. Recently the Desktop Manager ribbon has
    become awfully minute on a couple of my Win 10 PCs.
    No developments since 2017 and even folks who've donated can't get a
    solution to this problem implemented.

    Is there anything like a standard way of enlarging a certain feature
    of such a program, that could be done by outside influences?
    --

    Mike

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Halmarack on Thu Jan 12 14:08:40 2023
    On 12/01/2023 in message <[email protected]> Mike Halmarack wrote:

    Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
    at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
    10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

    Now open source and going strong:

    https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Mike Halmarack on Fri Jan 13 18:28:05 2023
    On 12/01/2023 12:30, Mike Halmarack wrote:
    Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
    at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
    10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

    My main problem though is with Dexpot, the best virtual desktop app
    for Window I ever found. Recently the Desktop Manager ribbon has
    become awfully minute on a couple of my Win 10 PCs.
    No developments since 2017 and even folks who've donated can't get a
    solution to this problem implemented.

    I'd make a Linux-window hybrid, having virtualised windows as a
    subsystem to a saner linux desktop environment, delivering multiple
    windows application window frames over either RDP or VNC.

    The entire opposite to Microsoft's WSL intentions, it's what I do daily
    - main machine is Debian XFCE, with windows stuff occasionally popping
    up and dismissed.

    Is there anything like a standard way of enlarging a certain feature
    of such a program, that could be done by outside influences?

    Crap native way. Stick the ribbon under the windows magnifier
    application? :-p

    There is even an API for that but it is 32-bit only, and probably
    renders a pixelated mess.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/magapi/magapi-intro




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    Adrian C

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  • From Mike Halmarack@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 14 09:39:36 2023
    On 12 Jan 2023 14:08:40 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 12/01/2023 in message <[email protected]> Mike >Halmarack wrote:

    Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
    at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win >>10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

    Now open source and going strong:

    https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

    Ta muchly
    --

    Mike

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  • From Mike Halmarack@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 14 09:41:41 2023
    On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:28:05 +0000, Adrian Caspersz
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 12/01/2023 12:30, Mike Halmarack wrote:
    Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
    at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
    10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

    My main problem though is with Dexpot, the best virtual desktop app
    for Window I ever found. Recently the Desktop Manager ribbon has
    become awfully minute on a couple of my Win 10 PCs.
    No developments since 2017 and even folks who've donated can't get a
    solution to this problem implemented.

    I'd make a Linux-window hybrid, having virtualised windows as a
    subsystem to a saner linux desktop environment, delivering multiple
    windows application window frames over either RDP or VNC.

    The entire opposite to Microsoft's WSL intentions, it's what I do daily
    - main machine is Debian XFCE, with windows stuff occasionally popping
    up and dismissed.

    Is there anything like a standard way of enlarging a certain feature
    of such a program, that could be done by outside influences?

    Crap native way. Stick the ribbon under the windows magnifier
    application? :-p

    There is even an API for that but it is 32-bit only, and probably
    renders a pixelated mess.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/magapi/magapi-intro

    Thanks for the interesting, if big job, solutions.
    --

    Mike

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  • From Vir Campestris@21:1/5 to Adrian Caspersz on Mon Jan 16 10:34:53 2023
    On 13/01/2023 18:28, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
    I'd make a Linux-window hybrid, having virtualised windows as a
    subsystem to a saner linux desktop environment, delivering multiple
    windows application window frames over either RDP or VNC.

    I've switched to Linux, and put my old Windows install from my old PC in
    a VM.

    A few things don't work - I haven't yet got it to talk to my PVR over
    the network, and it won't talk to the USB digitiser I want to grab all
    my VHS tapes. But I'm sure I'll work it out in the end...

    Andy

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