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Re:Undiscoverable UI Madness by barrkel on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:25PM (#22439768)
So do menus on all desktop platforms I've used.

My point is that menus work as a way of exposing functionality and making it discoverable through enumeration in a way that contextual UIs and fashionable techniques of the day don't.

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Re:Undiscoverable UI Madness by int_19h on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:20PM (#22448548)
I'm pretty sure that visible shortcuts are a CUA thing. They date way back - even text-mode menu-driven DOS apps had them, e.g. all the Borland IDEs.
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