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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by userbinator on Sunday July 06, 2025 @02:41AM (#44478385)
No title bars or menus... now you can't tell what application a Window belongs to.

I hate when applications stuff other controls (like browser tabs) into the title bar --- leaving you with no place to grab and move the window.

The irony is that we had title bars when monitors were only 640x480, yet now that they have multiplied many times in resolution, and become much bigger, UIs are somehow using the excuse of "saving space" to remove title bars and introducing even more useless whitespace.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by DidYaWipe on Sunday July 06, 2025 @06:01AM (#44479320)
Amen. And then there's the idiotic peek-a-boo UI that hides controls until you accidentally roll over them with the cursor... not saving any space at all.
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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by devnullbrain on Sunday July 06, 2025 @08:37AM (#44480257)
We don't do desktop computing like we did then. Most of what was separate applications then are now done in-browser: it's like running a virtual machine inside your OS.

I don't need to know that what I'm using is Edge/Chrome/Firefox any more than I need to know that what I'm using is Windows/etc.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by iamtedd on Sunday July 06, 2025 @09:06AM (#44480493)
This argument would make more sense if it wasn't in a thread talking about all the other apps besides the browser that does this.
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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by devnullbrain on Sunday July 06, 2025 @09:17AM (#44480568)
My point is that there rarely are other 'apps' in use.
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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by DidYaWipe on Monday July 07, 2025 @03:50AM (#44487736)
That assertion is absurd.
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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by devnullbrain on Monday July 07, 2025 @10:18AM (#44490633)
It is not novel to point out that more things are webapps or Electron.
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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by DidYaWipe on Monday July 07, 2025 @02:24PM (#44493246)
"More things" than what? And novelty has nothing to do with it. This is about validity.
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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by fuzzy2 on Sunday July 06, 2025 @12:57PM (#44482283)
> now that they have multiplied many times in resolution

Did they though? Quite a few laptops barely have 720 pixels in (scaled) height. That's less than your CRT with 1024x768, back in the days.

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