# Look&Feel of the Start Menu

DevFeed: [Look&Feel of the Start Menu](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/look-feel-of-the-start-menu-32858.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/look-feel-start-menu/>)

Published: 2014-03-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [GUI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gui.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

Tags: [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [toolbar](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/toolbar.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

A ReactOS development update describes improvements to the start menu's appearance, hot-tracking behavior, and keyboard navigation. It also discusses codebase reorganization, investigation of taskbar and browseui functionality, and plans to address explorer-new and start-menu issues.

## Source excerpt

This week's work began by improving the look&feel of the start menu so that it matches the Windows start menu better. The first step was to improve the look of the menu: This included positioning, colours, dropdown arrows, icon sizes, etc. I continued by trying to improve the feel of the menu: Hot-tracking behaviours, keyboard navigation, etc. The keyboard navigation keeps resisting me somewhat, though, as it tends to glitch when using the left/right arrow keys to open and close submenus, but moving up and down seems to behave as expected.