Quick poll: Interested in accessing the guest native Start Menu in Unity?

[admin]

Please help the Workstation team by answering these questions:

1) Currently, in Unity we show a custom menu to launch applications. Would you prefer the actual guest Start Menu?

2) If yes, why? What is missing from the current menu?

3) Would you be willing to resize or relocate the task bar in the guest?

Thanks!

[Liz · Accepted solution]

For me its not that the current thing doesnt offer functionality I need, I would just rather it was a submenu on the hosts startmenu..

[continuum]

Don't know - I have no use for Unity.

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[matthewls]

I like the custom menu, and I also like the actual guest task bar in Fusion, which I do resize and relocate.

The separate task bars are easier to parse than the interleaved icons for VM and host programs.

As usual, I advocate user choice. I sometimes turn off the guest task bar in fusion, depending on what I'm doing...

[RDPetruska]

Don't know - I have no use for Unity

I completely agree - to me, Unity is useless eye candy. I cannot stand not knowing how/where my applications are running... can't stand the similar feature/function of Citrix published applications.

[admin]

Seems there is no interest in this. Thanks for the feedback!

[rtarnell]

I would like this!

Actually, I don't care about the start menu, but I'd like to see the guest system tray. I run a couple of applications which sit in the tray when not in use, and having to un-Unity, open them, then switch back is inconvenient.

Actually, what would be even better is if icons in the guest system tray appeared in my host's system tray.

[mraming]

I'm running a Windows 2000 guest in Unity mode and I'm missing two critical things from the guest's start menu:

The Settings - Network and Dialup menu

The system tray of the guest. For example, I'm running Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 in the guest. When I minimize communicator, it minimizes to the system tray and I can no longer access it without exiting from Unity model.

I like the option of having the complete taskbar and start menu appear as a uniy window that I can then dock to either side of my screen - similar to how Virtual Box does (or did, only evaluated it briefly a long time ago). You can stil use the colored border like any other unity window to allow the user to identify the window as one of a particular guest.