I have most of the items in the Shortcuts List in Start 11 (Windows 10 style) set to "Display as a menu". Here's how I would expect that to work, to be consistent with Windows standards, including folders in the Windows taskbar when that was an option before Windows 11, or folders in Edge browser Favorites in Windows 11:
- After clicking on a folder (say, Documents) without releasing, while still holding the mouse button down I should be able to navigate the folders and release on the folder or item to open.
- If I do click and release on the folder in Start, then either hovering over the name of a folder in the pop-up menu or clicking on it should open the next layer down in the tree (I should not need to click on the arrow specifically)
Start11's behavior is bizarre with folders shown as Menu instead of link doesn't seem to follow any Windows UI standards, or if it does, I can't figure out how it's supposed to work. It's also buggy and inconsistent and frequently crashes Start11.
It seems like I need to click on the little arrow to the right of the folder to get it to open (although every once in a while, clicking on the folder name will also work), but sometimes even clicking on the arrow fails and it instead open the app below that on the Start menu, like the click goes through it to the item below it on the screen (as if the pop-up menu weren't there). In the screen capture below, I clicked on the Documents icon. The mouse is hovering over the Documents word at the time of the screen capture, but notice how no flyout for the next layer appears (sometimes it actually does do this on hover, but only VERY rarely). If I click on the word Documents, nothing happens. If I click on the little black arrow to the right of Documents, then SOMETIMES it opens, sometimes it instead opens Authenticator, which is the app below the Documents pop-up and obviously should not ever receive a click on Documents.
It really seems like Stardock offers the option for Menus without having ever tested them. All of the above issues are on my desktop. On my laptop, things were even worse, with Start11 typically crashing when I tried to use the menu over the link option. If I do set it to use links, those work as expected, but I almost always prefer to drill down through a menu than open a link to a folder, and then drill down through that (forces me to move my mouse over to the linked folder, perform the same navigation there, then I still have an extra window open that I'll need to close -- just a bunch of extra steps that waste time).
Windows Version: 22000.1042
Start11 Version: Version 1.25
