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RE: Rendering of New Classic Shell START Menu on DF 4.3.0 Beta 2 Near Perfect

Binary Fortress Software — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:31:49 GMT

That's great news! We plan on keeping up with the Classic Shell updates more quickly, now that we have an easier way of porting the code. I'm glad to hear about the context menus as well, we'v really put a lot of effort into that one, it wasn't an easy problem to fix.

RE: Rendering of New Classic Shell START Menu on DF 4.3.0 Beta 2 Near Perfect

Binary Fortress Software — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:40:00 GMT

PERFECTION! Jon, you and Keith are amazing … and the new integration with Classic Shell via the Settings button is outstanding. Thank you!

In the Windows 8 forum, Windows Secrets Lounge, and the MDL forum whenever I read posts dealing multi-monitor displays I strongly recommend a trial of DisplayFusion. How I wish Corel's apps and Windows itself were developed with your alacrity and technical excellence (— I know, the difference in scale is fish bowl to ocean, with corresponding ramifications).

P.S. I have not failed to notice that for a couple of betas now the context menu of tray items in 8 correctly opens over the DisplayFusion Taskbar.

RE: Rendering of New Classic Shell START Menu on DF 4.3.0 Beta 2 Near Perfect

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:17:53 GMT

We've updated Classic Shell to 3.6.2 in the latest beta, can you give it a try:
http://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/

Hopefully everything is fixed up now! We've also added a "Settings" button to the Taskbar tab for configuring Classic Shell.

RE: Rendering of New Classic Shell START Menu on DF 4.3.0 Beta 2 Near Perfect

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:25:36 GMT

Keith: are you using Classic Shell 3.6.2? I have attached a pic of the 'Customize Start Menu' with the AppsMenu item outlined in red in the 'Current menu items' pane.

I don't know if this would affect the display of this option, but my Classic Start Menu is using the Windows Vista/Windows 7 'Style'.

As I recall, when I updated Classic Shell earlier this week the AppsMenu item was added by default. It's also mentioned in the News and History pages of Ivo's site.

Curious.

RE: Rendering of New Classic Shell START Menu on DF 4.3.0 Beta 2 Near Perfect

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:48:41 GMT

Interesting! When I enable the alternate Start menu in DisplayFusion in Windows 8, my Start menu doesn't show the "Apps" item, nor the "Computer" item. Did you have to enable them in the Settings somewhere? I checked through the Classic Shell settings and couldn't find options to enable those two items.

Rendering of New Classic Shell START Menu on DF 4.3.0 Beta 2 Near Perfect

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:49:03 GMT

Re: Windows 8 Pro x64
DisplayFusion 4.3.0 Beta 2

In the new beta 2 the Taskbar option 'Use alternate Start Menu on DisplayFusion Taskbars' yields a much better result than earlier DisplayFusion versions. It is almost correct now.

The recently released Classic Shell 3.6.2 adds a new 'Programs' level folder called 'Apps' that holds shortcuts to the so-called Metro apps in 8. It's a convenient feature and makes good sense. On DF taskbar, however, it is labeled '$.Menu.Apps' and is non-functional.

You will also see in comparing the attached pics that the DF Start Menu mislabels the first item on the right-pane of my Classic Start Menu , whereas it should be 'Computer'. This item also is non-functional.

I understand that compatibility between DisplayFusion and Classic Shell's Classic Start Menu likely isn't a priority, but one may still hope …

AND a suggestion for a future feature: perhaps it could be possible to specify alternate images for START on the DF Taskbar.

All good wishes!