Re:The end of the nice GTK button
by eitland on Friday March 25, 2022 @03:09AM
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It is just a menu.
But instead of being an ordinary honest menu where half the items has their defined places on each OS and the rest can be found easily it is a jumbled mess.
And since there are no standards as for where to put things in a hamburger menu they can move around between each release of the application.
And the only reason to use it instead of an honest menu is because Chrome does it so therefore it must be a good idea. Period.
It is somewhat ironic that even as desktop screens get larger and larger applications has to "maximize real screen estate" by removing menus, while simultaneously working to remove real screen space improvements like the option of Tree Style Tabs on Firefox (yes, it kind of works and it is still awesome but it get harder and harder by the year).
But instead of being an ordinary honest menu where half the items has their defined places on each OS and the rest can be found easily it is a jumbled mess.
And since there are no standards as for where to put things in a hamburger menu they can move around between each release of the application.
And the only reason to use it instead of an honest menu is because Chrome does it so therefore it must be a good idea. Period.
It is somewhat ironic that even as desktop screens get larger and larger applications has to "maximize real screen estate" by removing menus, while simultaneously working to remove real screen space improvements like the option of Tree Style Tabs on Firefox (yes, it kind of works and it is still awesome but it get harder and harder by the year).