derelict wrote:
winstep wrote:
I was actually expecting you to raise this issue lol. It's not a bug. It's by design.
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All well and good, except the situation that *I* live with, has been reality for decades, and works fine... and as I noted elsewhere, both Windows XP and Open Start Menu handle it routinely...
It would be fine if this was an *optional* behavior, that could be turned off by the 90% of people who just wanted cascading menus to work like cascading menus... but the way it works now is clunky and undesirable...
LOL! Who are you kidding? Your kind of cascading menus would be a complete nightmare for most people, and most XP users switched back to the 'Classic Startmenu' very quickly. Even on my 32" 4K monitor your cascading menu is, for me, my worst nightmare become manifest - I would never find anything there, it's just too much all at once. I don't keep the books in my bookcases simply ordered alphabetically by author but first, divided into fiction and non-fiction, and then an adaptation of standard library classification, making it dead simple to find everything. A Startmenu should have similar order to be effective.
Even an option to have complete cascading menus in Nextstart would be one option too many - that kind of thing would just annoy the **** out of most users. It's something that is just completely alien to the nature of Nextstart. Now that *is* something that would truly be clunky. Imagine a folder along the way containing thousands of files - it'll run out of screen space and start overlapping catastrophically!
Most people prefer order to chaos. That's one of the reasons Nextstart came into existence - to make it easy to create exactly the kind of order that the individual user prefers. Almost all Linux distros come with an ordered Menu as part of the GUI - usually user configurable to an extent - for the same reason.
When Win XP came along, I instantly switched to 'Classic Startmenu' myself and edited this to reflect, as near as possible, my Nextstart Startmenu (and this is also reflected in my Menu in Ubuntu and Fedora Linux, my main OSes for a number of years now). Thus, in my Nextstart Startmenu I have a number of top level folders representing categories, such as Accessories, GFX, Internet, Audio/Visual, System, Office, WebDev, Utilities, Security/Privacy, etc. Into these I drag and drop appropriate apps links from the Windows Startmenu, and in some cases relevant sub-category folders, and so on. If I want to run e.g. a specific GFX app, I don't want to have to scan a long alphabetical list to find it, I go straight to the GFX folder where there will be a very short list for me to choose from, simple. (Even simpler now as I only still (have to) use around a handful of apps/utils under Windows.)