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The Windows Context Menu – Is It a Lost Cause?

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Re: The Windows Context Menu – Is It a Lost Cause?

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Post by dang »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #10
dang wrote: post #13

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That post is spectacularly unreadable. Why is the first paragraph so transparent?

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: The Windows Context Menu – Is It a Lost Cause?

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Post by ryukoposting »

Very informative. I finally divorced myself from Windows a couple months ago, but this would have been great information to have. I don't think the criticisms of Windows are particularly well-founded. To be honest, this seems like far less of a mess than any number of other parts of Windows (Win32 API comes to mind)

Some notes regarding the site itself: I like the use of the Win7 icons. The angled headings are fun. It looks nice, overall. Animated backgrounds are bad, please stop using them. Also, if my mouse is sitting in the side gutters of the page, I can't scroll with the scroll wheel - the mouse has to be in the middle of the page. That's irritating. It seems like you're trying to be too clever with the CSS. It's just a blog. The cheeky CSS antics get in the way of it being a good blog.

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Post by wruza »

cududa wrote: post #2
dang wrote: post #13

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"The Windows context menu is... poorly made." That website is poorly made. What's with the scrolling. Anyway. Yes. It's a very very complicated software with hooks decades back. That's a feature not a bug. He's mad that it's complicated to customize, or really, understand and build UI customization for, including third-party applications implementations of them? What? People still use mission critical software from 3…

It's a very very complicated software with hooks decades back. That's a feature not a bug

That's never a feature, and I'm curious what amount of stockholm syndrome can make one say so. It's the bullshit-est menu implementation ever made and everyone has to suffer from it since 30 years ago.

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Post by joegibbs »

If it was up to me I'd make adding options to the context menu something that you can't do without specifically choosing to in the control panel. Applications could supply context options to the OS but those shouldn't be displayed without the user going in and allowing each one specifically.

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Post by suddenclarity »

DustinBrett wrote: post #7

NirSoft's ShellExView & ShellMenuView are good tools for tweaking that menu.

I'm surprised something similar isn't already part of PowerToys. It seems to be a common complaint, with software cluttering it. Chrome browser even more so since they introduced a randomly scrolling menu so one can't even see all the options.

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Post by Thoreandan »

DustinBrett wrote: post #7

NirSoft's ShellExView & ShellMenuView are good tools for tweaking that menu.

Also Autoruns from SysInternals ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut... ) "Explorer" tab lets you un-check / check individual entries.

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Post by FragmentShader »

dang wrote: post #13

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Unlike y'all, I actually love the website! I mean, yeah, it could use some extra opaqueness and padding, but it looks cool. Rad, even.

Most of personal blogs in HN that I see on the top page usually look like they were made in the 90's, with either no CSS at all or simple CSS with just big paragraphs of text and no substance in between. I cannot stand them. My zoomer ass needs to be stimulated by getting eye candy while reading the content.

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