Difficult to understand GNOME hamburger menu philosophy (2024)

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ggm-at-algebras · 7h ago

I think this gets to the heart of what third party/alternate gui style means. Either we abstract the control elements to a common core and then what we call them, and their main points can change, but they are understood in metaform for what they are, or we have .. soup.

Ctrl-c Ctrl-v are just one instantiation. Open, new, open old, reopen, settings, help, print, there's hundreds of potential points which by default will hang off a burger menu and which either do not conform to a specific style guide or else don't behave the same compiled ifdef #this package against ifdef #that platform.

On a mac, it's policed. It's almost the lead value proposition.

kristianp · 3h ago

I think on Windows too there is a history of certain menus that people expect. Of course Microsoft has messed with that over the last decade or so since Windows 8 came out.

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Difficult to understand GNOME hamburger menu philosophy (2024)

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