Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability

Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by danaris on Sunday July 06, 2025 @08:38AM (#44480264)

> With desktop monitor sizes since 20+ years ago, the distance you have to travel, together with the visual disconnect between application and the menu bar, negates the easier targetability.

Try it on a Mac; the way its mouse acceleration works makes it really, really easy to just flick either a mouse or a finger on a trackpad and get all the way across the screen.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by layer8 on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:01AM (#44480895)

I’m not saying it’s necessarily harder to reach a menu bar at the top of the screen, given suitable mouse acceleration. But you also have to move the mouse pointer back to whatever you are doing in the application window, and moving to the top menu bar is not that much (if at all) easier to really justify the cognitive and visual separation. It that were the case, then as many application controls as possible should be moved to the border of the screen.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by int_19h on Monday July 07, 2025 @01:20AM (#44487005)

Mac is my primary desktop these days and has been for over a year now, and it's still annoying.

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Re:Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Af... by DidYaWipe on Monday July 07, 2025 @04:19AM (#44487925)

I've been on Mac for 20 years and it's still annoying as hell.

Another side effect is the uselessness of the Help menu. What help am I looking at? The application owns the menu, so where's the OS help?

Oh right, it's just all mixed together. When I'm searching for information in some developer tool I'm using, I really enjoy all the arbitrary hits from the OS help about setting up printers, sending E-mail, whatever.

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