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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by userbinator on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:52PM (#30798484)
Interesting concept, but I would add keyboard shortcuts (underlined items) to the menu to make it more of a reminder than be forced to use the mouse all the time.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by smegger001 on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:31AM (#30798944)
That was originally part of the IBM Common User Access style guide 80/90s, back when user interfaces for software valued function over form.

https://ia800200.us.archive.org/0/items/ibmsj2703E/ibmsj2703...

the figure on page 2 shows exactly what you are describing.

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