Relevant? Blend for Visual Studio 2012: Updated UX Tool for Windows 8 Applications <http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/08/Blend-Visual-Studio-2012>
_____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:13 PM To: g...@aquarius.com.au; ozDotNet Subject: Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications. What's your actual issue? Too many tiles? Can't find the one you want? My old windows experience was that you'd end up with dozens of icons on your desktop. You couldn't find them and they were never where you left them. This is much better in that if you start typing the list of apps will filter. Usually when you are looking for something you know roughly what it is you are looking for. Two or three letters filters it down to a small list and there's the app you were after. No more icons cluttering desktop. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Glen Harvy <g...@aquarius.com.au> wrote: Hi Damon, Thanks for your response but I think you missed the point of my post. On a blank first time install of Win8 Pro there are 50 Microsoft Apps tiles displayed on the All Apps window. I have only installed Total Commander which has added 2 more tiles. I'm pretty sure that my application will add a minimum of 5 more. I have over 70 icons/shortcuts on my Win7 Desktop. The mind boggles as to how many tiles I'll have on one screen if/when I upgrade to Win8. I can't believe that I am doing this right and MS really expects me (the end user) to get used to it. My immediate thoughts are to spend a day writing a Metro style desktop app so the end user has just one point of entry to my program/sub-programs and that app will be pinned to the Start Window. I don't really have a problem with this either - sounds rather a good idea. But is it necessary? Do you think that is a good idea or am I missing something? Glen. On 21/08/2012 3:15 PM, Damon Pollard wrote: Start > Right Click > All Apps > Click the button [-] in the bottom right corner. This will bring up a 'Directory' listing of all the installed Apps > Click the category (your program) you want and it will jump to the set of programs you want. As for the creating icons etc. I have no idea ;) Damon Pollard On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Glen Harvy <g...@aquarius.com.au> wrote: Hi Shielas and Fellas, Installing an application in Win8 results in my desktop applications 3 "sub - programs" being included as tiles/links on the Win8 Start Screen whilst the main programs tile/link doesn't get included on the Start Screen at all. I believe I can fix this by pinning the main programs link to the Start 'Menu' and ensuring the sub-programs are unpinned to the Start Screen. The main program still appears on the Desktop Screen but to locate the sub-programs will mean they are located on another screen that will in effect hold possibly hundreds of other sub-programs as well. There has been some discussion regarding creating a dedicated Metro Style application that would do nothing else but act as a launch-pad for the Main and sub-programs. I appreciate that eventually programs will be re-written to accommodate Win8 however this won't happen for years. I'm not to certain that the current Win8 format with regards to sub-programs will survive the test of time either. In the interim, what are you doing to make your multi-program application 'fit' into Win8 as seamlessly as possible. Also, how does one create and add a reasonably decent 'Tile' to hold the applications icon? I would have thought all the above would have been discussed to death by now but I can't find much via Google - probably because I'm using the wrong search terms! Regards, Glen.
