CoderedPL CoderedPL

Next Start or Object Bar? Which would you choose?

Next Start or Object Bar? Which would you choose?

Well the title says it all. Which would you choose Nextstart or ObjectBar
7,290 views 31 replies
Reply #26 Top

#13 by Kona0197 - 12/16/2003 7:04:56 PM
LiteSTEP is the best

Put a cork in it.
LS is a shell, ObjectBar and NextStart are not.
I think you're confusing this board with Neowin.

Reply #27 Top
Wizop Hippy - Frogboy already yelled at me. I do not need to yelled at twice.
Reply #28 Top
I dislike NextStart because i think all themes look like the same and you have more possibility with objectbar . The only bad thing i can say about objectbar is there aren't an update :/ ... when can you see the v2.0 ?
Reply #29 Top
Actually, have you ever played with NextStart? It has *many* more possibilities than object bar. A menu on a click, hotspots to launch menus/applications, the now ubiquitous bar. Not to take anything away from objectbar. It is very good for what it does... being a bar. One last thing- NextStart plays very well with the OS. At times OB doesn't, especially if you're using it on a tablet PC. The themes... well, that's just a personal opinion IMO. If there is a theme you want, you can always create it for NextStart...
Reply #30 Top
werewolf's the only one thus far who does what I do - WorkShelf is great for having all of one's apps instantly and easily at fingertip, as well as remaining hidden until you require it with only a mouse bump... I'm rather curious about ObjectBar 2, though; any more hints about it?
Reply #31 Top
I don't understand what "the themes all look alike" means. If you mean that when you apply a Nextstart/Workshelf theme, you still have the same menu content, well that's a good thing.

One of the great things about NextStart and Workshelf is that the theme is separated from configuration and content. Unlike some other apps where if you switch to a new theme, you have to spend time redoing your preferred customization to that theme. With Nextstart and Workshelf, you apply a new theme, and you're off and running with your previous setup.

I use Nextstart and Workshelf in a diffrent fashion than Werewolf. I have many Nextstart menus for the various application and utitlies I used, each organized into approparite sub menus.

I use Workshelf as a mechanism to get at the various folders of the computer: a shelves for the desktop, control panel, my documents and so on. I also have a Workshelf shelves for various projects: a shelf that holds shortcuts to a project's files, folders, an application link to the program I use for that project, and some internet shortcuts to online documentation that I reference for that particular project.