Classic Shell: Forum

Loving the new transparency for a more native look in 4.2.5

Curious if there's a plan to add the open animation eventually to match how windows 10 opens the start menu.

Nice to have not a deal breaker.

If you havnt noticed, you can already have either fade, or slide animations in the start menu, just right click the start menu, and type 'anim' into the searchox and all relevant fields should display.
as for windows 10's animation It appears to be a combination of both, and would be up-to Ivo to implement

Only the Classic styles Main Menu has an animation when the entire menu opens. The Windows 7 style main menu when it opens does not animate as Ivo explained to me because the user picture is a separate window that appears on top so it will either have to animate together with the main menu or show itself after the main menu is done animating. That might look weird. The Windows 7 style *does* have animations for jumplists, submenus or when you start searching but the main menu itself as a whole does not open with an animation because of the user picture issue.

That said, it might be possible for Ivo to add a simultaneous fade animation effect for the user picture and the main menu since I have seen StartIsBack++ do it so it must be possible. StartIsBack++ main menu also animates when it closes. But that's up to Ivo to decide.

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

Classic Shell 4.3.0's Start Menu supports fade, slide and random animations also in Windows 7 style.

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.