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I feel like the author needs to explain why the menu-based user interface is better. That's taken for granted, but is it actually true? And consider that the r
by mathw 8y ago
I feel like the author needs to explain why the menu-based user interface is better. That's taken for granted, but is it actually true?
And consider that the response to that is likely to be different for people who learned computing on environments like Windows (where global menu bars would be really weird), Mac OS (where they're normal) or various earlier UNIX GUIs (where who knows, anything goes and each application probably does it differently anyway), or on smartphones or tablets, which is where a lot of younger people are getting their first experiences of computers.
- gurkendoktor 8y ago> Windows (where global menu bars would be really weird) Would they really be weirder than hamburger menus? Also, GNOME 3 has a global application menu in the top-left corner, but it only contains around 5 entries on average and is largely ignored. It's the worst of all worlds. Ubuntu's Unity had the right idea when they let users choose whether to display menus at the top, or inside each window. The implementation was terrible, but I wish the concept would have caught on as some kind of XDG standard.
- QasimK 8y agoI think he went into quite a bit of detail from being quicker (less actions) to being more discoverable.